Piercing Aftercare
General And Oral
1. Always wash your hands before touching or cleaning a fresh piercing.
2.Run warm water over the piercing and jewelry in the shower to soften any crusties (scab like substance). Do NOT pick the crusties off!.
3. DO NOT rotate or move the jewelry until it is fully healed.
4.Sea salt solution can be used immediately after getting the piercing as a means of further removing bacteria from the inside of the piercing. To make sea salt solution dissolve 1/8th of a teaspoon to 1 cup warm water. NEVER leave your solution in a washroom with no lid on it due to the bacteria of your toilet being flushed. The first time cleaning it make sure you soak the piercing for 10 minutes. You cannot over sea salt your piercing.
5. Avoid swimming in fresh, salt or chlorinated water and minimize exposer to the sun for at least 2-6 weeks, which includes bath tubs, hot tubs, swimming pools, And do NOT immerse piercing in ANY standing body of water.
6. DO NOT use alcohol, peroxide, or ANY cleaners or chemicals.
7.NO sexual contact with the pierced area, or jewelry this includes oral contact.
8.DO NOT apply any make up near the pierced area and be cautious about shampoo suds getting into your piercing. Make sure you clean it right after a shower or washing your face.
9. You may need to come back and downsize your piercing it CANNOT be changed before it is FULLY healed.
General Aftercare
1. Clean the piercing with sea salt solution 3 times a day.
2.There will be a natural discharge that happens 3-7 days after the piercing is done, please do not pick at this as it will cause problems with healing, crusties will come off with cleaning the area.
3.Chamomille tea bags are also a great healer as they draw out all foreign matter and any bacteria. Boil water and let cool dip tea bag in and check on the inside of wrist as long as it isn’t to hot for your wrist you will not burn your piercing.
Tongue Piercing Aftercare
1.Rinse Mouth with ½ Oral B And ½ Water. You MUST rinse after everything that goes in your mouth other then water!!
2. Avoid Alcohol as well as yeast products and yogurt. Dairy WILL cause thrush if you do not rinse after.
3.Avoid Open Mouth Kissing and oral sex for at LEAST 2 weeks as it can lead to a nasty infection as well as it may cause STD’s as your piercing IS an open Wound.
4.Swelling is very common and can be helped with Advil as it is an anti-inflammatory. Slurpees and ice cubes can also help with swelling but do not suck on them. Pineapple juice is also very good for tongue piercings.
Munroe, Lip or Labret Piercing Aftercare
1.Rinse Your mouth with ½ oral b and ½ water after everything that goes in your mouth other then water!!!
2.Clean outside of piercing with sea salt solution 3 times a day.
3.There will be a natural discharge that happens within 3-7 days after piercing is done.
4. Avoid Open Mouth Kissing and oral sex for at LEAST 2 weeks as it can lead to a nasty infection as well as it may cause STD’s as your piercing IS an open Wound.
5. . Avoid Alcohol as well as yeast products and yogurt. Dairy WILL cause thrush if you do not rinse after.