What to do?

1. Wash your hands thoroughly prior to cleaning or touching your piercing.
2. Irrigate your piercing in warm water once or twice a day, everyday, for a few seconds. This is gonna help to get rid of any debris in or around your piercing.
3. Then, irrigate in sterile saline solution. You should be spraying it on your piercing for 2 seconds on each side. Let air dry unless told otherwise by your piercer.

What to avoid?

Do not rotate, touch or play with your jewelry. Avoid submerging your piercing in stagnant, unhygienic bodies of water. Do not use products such as rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, ointments, soaps, etc. Remember, if you wouldn’t put it directly in your eye, don’t put it on your piercing! Avoid beauty and personal care products on or around your piercing. It is crucial that you do not sleep on your piercing until it is fully healed and dowsized, otherwise this could result in permanent distortion of your piercing channel.

What is normal?

Initially: Some bleeding, localized swelling, tenderness and/or bruising.

During healing: Some whitish-yellow secretions might form a crust around the jewelry. This is part of the healing process and is absolutely normal. To gently remove them, simply irrigate your piercing in warm water for a few minutes. DO NOT pick at it! If you do, it will highly irritate your piercing and completely slow down your healing process.