I never had the problem of it getting infected. Sea salt soaks are your friend. And I didn't clean it for as long as they said.

sea salt soaks? share this witchery with me

like a little bit of sea salt to a cup of water-warm they say, but I've done cold.

You can soak cottonballs in it and just kinda let it sit there on the piercing....or spray it like I did. If you notice an infection-use the cottonball instead....and you might want to do the same with the inside of your nose-using the cottonballs (you'll have to work with them to get them up there.

Warm is best until the swelling goes down

witchery

Not to be rude but try not to post one word posts cause it could be considered spam and you could be penalized for it

just a heads up

Echo-chan; thanks for the heads-up. I will keep that in mind for the future.

Yokuutsu - doesn't the sea salt sting?

Nah. Maybe it does if you put too much in it....but I've never had it sting.

I've had my septum and lip pierced. I don't wear them anymore, though. I just stopped putting them in because of work, and now that I'm self-employed I just haven't really thought to put jewelry back in, and I'm kinda over it anyways.

I love septum piercings, still, and I would love to have mine back, but that's about all I would get again, or for the first time.

I took care of them both with sea salt and water. I had issues with my lip ring at first because it was my first piercing and I wasn't informed on after-care, so I ended up breaking out in hives really bad all over my face, and that ended up getting infected completely overnight. I went to bed feeling fine, I woke up with open skin and grossness on my face. It got infected because I was scratching my face that night, since it felt itchy. I ended up having to go to the E.R. and get some ointment, then everything was fine about a week later.

That was not a good experience.

I also have really sensitive skin and if I don't get something that's stainless steel or a real gold or silver, my skin freaks out.

ugh that sounds awful. it didn't scar, did it?
i can't wear stainless steel in piercing holes, or silver in new ones

@Scylla
I hate to inform you...most rings put in new piercings are stainless steel so good luck with that...cause surgical steel costs more.

@Kyon
I don't see how you broke out in hives that bad. Shit, I didn't even follow the cleaning procedure. My piercings do better after the first couple of weeks if I stop cleaning at that point.

i have to get gold/white gold put in new piercings, rather than anything else. It's more expensive, but i'd rather not infect my ears, thanks.
if you go to a good place you can find good piercing jewelry for a small amount of money

Like I said, I have sensitive skin. The jewelry probably wasn't cleaned properly before they put it in.

Nope no scars, I went to the doctor right away and got treatment for it.

They didn't get get it out of a sterilized package thing? That's a bad sign

I don't remember it was a long time ago, I had just turned 18. I know that I didn't pay attention, and I wasn't well informed on what to look for in a good piercer. I just had a taxi drop me off and got a piercing lol.
It was supposed to be a good place, though. Idk.

Trust what you see, not what you hear.

Next time pay attention. No telling how many statutes they broke.