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Bellybutton piercing
Hello im 18/f
I got my belly button pierced about a month ago and it still hasnt healed.
I went to a good place and they said i cant use neosporen (idk how to spell it right) or any other antibiotic ointments
is that true? because this lady from hair salon told me i could but i dont want to risk it because when i asked if i can use neosporin the piercing guy said no unless i want my belly button to fall off...
so i ended up buying this purified sea water spray for 10 bucks...
how can it heal fast?!
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Oooh I had this excact same problem! I'll tell you what my doctor told me to do and it's simple: buy liquid Dial soap, the original yellow formula and pH, gentle cleansing soap. Within a week you will see results. I constantly had to rotate my piercing and it seemed like turning it all the time caused more infection than good. But really you need to keep doing so. Take a q-tip and lightly swab it with the dial soap first, then clean the top and bottom open while rinsing thouroughly. Then take the pH balanced soap and rinse do the same thing. Bacteria grows and infections occur when the balance is upsetted, such as a piercing, when a foreign object is placed. I hope this helps! Also, if the cleansing process proves to be overdone, you can also just wash it in the morning, then swab it with peroxide in the afternoon, then cleanse it at night time.
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You actually dont need those antibiotics or that spray! I have my belly button pierced and the only thing the man told me to do was to clean it real good when i take a shower but dont clean it to much because you still need some of the bacteria to help it heal! If it start getting crust around it dont freak out or anything jus clean it with peroxide. It should heal in a week or two!
Hope i helped =]
-JABOiNKER
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Never use anti-biotic ointments on any sort of piercing. You also should never use alcohol, peroxide, or ANY soaps. The reason is because you wind up killing the bad cells (like infection-causing cells) AND the good cells. When the good cells are killed off, the piercing itself cannot heal. You want your piercing to heal as quickly as possible and without the good cells it just can't happen, which will lead to more scarring in the long run and maybe even infection (from all of the dead cells in the area).
The sea water is what you are wanting, exactly. $10 is really not so bad for this sort of thing. You always should clean your piercing with sea salt and water (mixed together), which is what the purified sea water is (obviously).
Clean your piercing off twice a day, preferably once in the morning and once in the evening (before bed maybe). The only reason you clean it with this is to remove the cells that have died off--basically to help your body get those cells off and out of the area. When you clean the piercing, do not twice, slide, or move the ring itself. All you really want to do is soak the bar and the entrance/exit holes with the solution. Do not spray directly on the piercing.
If your piercing has crusty bits on it then it's okay to get a clean Q-tip soaked in the solution and rub the bar (LIGHTLY) a little bit. The crusty stuff is not going to hurt your piercing though so if you're not comfortable doing that then it's just fine.
The thing will belly button piercings is that they never truly heal. They are considered a surface piercing. Surface piercings include: bellyrings, eyebrows, hips, cleavage, corset piercings, napes. Surface piercing NEVER truly heal, no matter what you do to them, and will eventually reject, or migrate (which takes time, depending on your own body and how well/fast it heals).
Rejection is the body's natural defensive maneuver to prevent infections and such.
Your body has no idea that you WANTED to put a piece of metal in your skin. It thinks you've been wounded and it knows that infection may set in if the object stays in (because foreign objects have dirt/bacteria on them). The body knows it needs to get the object out as soon as possible so it does everything it can.
This means the flesh surrounding the piercing will actually sacrifice itself for your life. It will actually die off and the cells will fall off of you little by little. This causes deep scars usually. You can actually visually see the skin thinning when you look at the piercing as time goes by.
Rejection usually only happens to surface piercings. Rejection will ALWAYS happen with these piercings no matter what. The only way to reduce the scarring from rejection is to take the piercing out early. Some bodies reject quicker than others--some people can go weeks with an eyebrow piercing before it starts to reject and some people can go months before it begins rejecting. It will always happen though.
The only thing you can do is try to slow down the rejection process. This means rinsing the jewelry off with saline solution (what you have) twice a day and doing everything you can not to put pressure on the bar. With surface piercings, the more you mess with them, the quicker they will come out.
The skin usually begins to be itchy because the cells are dying off so you can live and won't get a major infection. Again, the body doesn't know that the object has been sterilized and was wanted so there honestly is no way to stop rejection. When rejection happens, you may notice itchiness, redness, tenderness, and more crusty bits. Some people even experience white "puss" which isn't infection (infection is yellow) but a large number of dead cells being expelled from where the body is removing that part of the skin.
I also want to note that if your piercing begins to reject and you do not remove the jewelery, it WILL still come out. Your skin seriously just falls off of you little by little until the piercing comes out as well.
Here is an excellent photo sequence in which someone shows how their nape piercing rejected after a few months:
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Chances are, if your piercing is STILL unhappy after a month of being pierced then your body is a very, very good healer and is trying it's very best to remove the piece of metal shoved in your navel. It may be in your best interest to go on and remove it now. When piercings reject, they leave some nasty scars (trust me, they aren't pretty).
If you are truly concerned and feel that I am not giving you correct information then please see your piercing. Your piercer knows A LOT more about piercing than a lady at the hair salon.
So:
Rinse off twice daily with saline solution.
See a professional piercer with questions and concerns.
I hope I've answered you pretty clearly. If you have any more questions PLEASE feel free to ask me! :)
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This site should help!
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(and yes, it says not to use any ointments)
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