Nose Piercing, the Healing and Aftercare

Keep away from swimming pools, hot tubs and diving in the sea during the healing period. Chlorine and various other chemicals used to maintain public pools are really dangerous for the healing tissues. The risk from the ocean is bacterial infection from pollution contaminants. Also, if you workout or sweat quite heavily, the toxins that the body releases in sweating could also irritate piercings, so don't forget to clean or wash off your skin as soon as you get done performing sports or exercising.

Don`t use rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide to wash your new piercing! They both may bring on tissue burns and raise irritation, that slows down healing and raises the chances of scar tissue or "bumps" forming.

Don`t get your nose pierced with a piercing gun! These were not invented for noses and the accessories is very blunt and often way too tight. This raises your chances of issue, keloids (bumps) and scarring. Yet the really big reason is that the employees of places that operate these equipments are not educated correctly about blood-born disease transmission and the piercing guns are not sterilized correctly in between customers to avoid the spread of virus like Hepatitis C or HIV.

Don`t put on sterling silver or plastic in a new or healing pierced nose! A) Sterling Silver - The tarnishing of the steel put on in a healing piercing might permanently mark the skin, leaving a blemish around the piercing area that will certainly NEVER disappear. I have no knowledge of any technique for getting rid of the staining. New nose piercings have to be healed wearing stainless steel, niobium, titanium or 14k gold. When you find out you have sterling silver in your new piercing, go find a reliable piercer and have them switch it out for an unharmed metal. B) Plastic or nylon - even though hypoallergenic, these elements are porous, and they can absorb body fluids that can lead to problems, the plastic discoloring or the jewelry sticking to the healing piercing.

Don`t change your nose jewelry too early ! Noses require three months or a lot longer to totally heal and several people find that if they remove the jewelry sooner, the piercing collapses or closes down and they can not get any accessories back in, therefore losing the piercing completely. Changing jewelry too soon could also re-tear the inside of the healing piercing and make you start the healing process all over again. In case you get some sort of problems with a piece of jewelry and you really must replace it out, go back and find your piercer who is able to replace the accessories in such a way that won't let the piercing close down on you.