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Nipple ring funky smell
I'll say this first, I think piercings stink. My industrial bar, in my opinion, freakin' reeks. I go my nipples done (female) about two months ago, they're pretty much healed, still crusting up a bit, but the infection is gone. In short, I find them to be a bit stinky, and this is not an area where I can tolerate that.
I clean them daily in the shower with Dial soap.
Is this normal, if not, tell me pleeassee.
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Dial soap is actually pretty terrible to use on any piercing, new or old. It prevents the healing process from taking place properly by killing off healthy cells as well as unhealthy ones. If you have more healthy cells than unhealthy then your body will take care of the work and avoid infection on it's own.
Only wash your nipples off with a saline solution. You can buy it or make it yourself, since it's pretty much diluted sea salt water. Ask your pharmacist about some saline solution. I think I bought mine when my nipples were pierced for something like $3 for a huge bottle.
Yes, they will stink. That's your body trying to heal over and over again. That's dead cells getting caught in the piercing hole. That's just you. That's what humans do. Dead skin cells = smelly. That's natural. It happens. You can't really avoid it.
Nipples actually take way longer than 2 months to heal up properly. You won't be completely healed for nearly a year. It's a very complex piercing in a very sensitive area. The piercing is constantly being pushed on, moved, hit, scrubbed, etc. so it takes about a year to fully heal from the inside out. After the healing process is over then the smell may be reduced some but it won't go just go away.
Rinse it off decently with the saline solution (and ONLY the saline solution) but make sure you wash the areas surrounding it like usual. You can lightly move your bar back and forth slowly to help get the saline solution moving into and out of the piercing for cleanliness.
The crusting? Well, I had mine in for quite some time, until they were fully healed at least, and the crusting doesn't ever end. Some days you'll see more than others. Sometimes you'll forget it ever has that issue. The crusting is just your nipples discharging the dead cells inside. You'll experience it 10 years after getting them done as far as I was told. It is just the natural process of the body, again.
Other than that, you're just going to have to deal with it. Piercings usually smell pretty terrible. All of them. Ever smell somebody's ears that were gauged? Smells pretty terrible. It's because the body has some dead cells there. That's why they have to rinse them out at least once a day to help with the odor. Whoever tells you it doesn't smell is just a flat-out liar because it's what the human body does. Shed dead skin cells. And the bar moving all of the time (even when you just don't notice it) helps to shed those dead cells even faster.
Yep.
Saline solution only.
Wait it out.
Deal with it.
That's about it.
And, yeah, I have some pretty decent experience with that. I had something like 14 piercings total by the end of my lunatic faze.
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