- Wash your hands thoroughly prior to cleaning or touching your piercing for any reason
- SOAK with Sterile Saline Solution for five to ten minutes 3 times a day. Invert a cup of warm saline solution over the area to form a vacuum. For certain piercings it may be easier to apply the solution using clean gauze or paper towels saturated with saline solution.
- WASH with soap, gently lather around the piercing and rinse as needed. Avoid using harsh soaps with dyes, fragrances, or triclosan.
- RINSE thoroughly to remove all traces of the soap from the piercing. It is not necessary to rotate the jewelry through the piercing.
- DRY by gently patting with clean, disposable paper products. Cloth towels can harbor bacteria and snag on jewelry, causing injury Ear/ Cartilage and Facial
- try not to sleep on your new piercing as this will hurt and irritate it while healing. Use the t-shirt trick: Dress your pillow in a large clean t-shirt and turn it nightly. One clean T-shirt provides four clean surfaces for sleeping.
- Maintain cleanliness of telephones, headphones, eyeglasses, helmets, hats and anything that contacts the pierced area.
- Use caution when styling your hair
Mouth Piercings
- Rinse mouth with H2Ocean Sea salt Oral care cleaning solution for 30 seconds after meals and at bedtime (4-5 times daily) during entire healing period. Cleaning too often or with too strong a rinse can cause discoloration and irritation of your mouth piercing. Do not use mouthwash with Alcohol
Swelling for all piercings
- Allow small pieces of ice to dissolve in your mouth for mouth piercings
- Take an over-the-counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory such as ibuprofen according to the [package instructions.
- Don’t speak or move your jewelry more than necessary.
- Sleep with you head elevated above your heart during the first few nights.
Please AVOID
- Do not play with your jewelry. Long term effects include permanent damage to teeth, gums and other oral structures
- Avoid undue trauma; excessive talking or playing with the jewelry during healing can cause migration uncomfortable scar tissue and other complications. Keloids or Blood blisters can happen with trauma.
- Avoid oral sexual contact Avoid chewing tobacco, gum, fingernails, pencils, and other foreign object that can harbor bacteria Avoid smoking, it increases risks and lengthens healing time
- Avoid aspirin, drinking alcohol, and large amount of caffeine if you are experiencing bleeding or swelling.