Navel Piercing Aftercare That You Need to Follow!

How should I make sure that my navel is thoroughly cleaned?

A rigorous belly button piercing aftercare is important if you wish for your belly button to heal properly. You must keep up with the sea salt soaks as much as you can for at least a couple of weeks after you get your belly button piercing. You should also keep misting your belly button every few hours a day. An aftercare piercing spray would help keep the belly button pretty healthy and will flush out all the collectives that are present there in the skin. It will also keep the belly button piercing hydrated.

The sea salt solution has been prescribed before in this article. You can choose to make your own sea salt solution for your belly button piercing or buy one from your local drug store. You can also add tea tree oil or peppermint oil for better moisturizing and its antibacterial properties. Do not apply it directly to your belly button piercing. Later, you can use a plain tissue or cotton pad to lightly wipe away any “crusties” that have been melted up by the solvent. Crusties are just dehydrated lymph, which is a cloudless discharge standard with new piercings and other medicinal injuries. It drains to form a whitish crust that’s safe. You just don’t need to turn or accelerate your jewelry to break up the crusties; regularly dissolve them with a saline solution preeminently, then smoothly wipe it off.

Stricly avoid washing your belly button piercing with soap for a few months which can actually make your skin dehydrated and cause it has cracks and pain. It is also more prone to infections and built up of bacterias. It can take almost 6 months for the piercing to heal so try to do all the safe aftercare practices that have been recommended to you.

Is belly button piercing rejection a common issue?

The chances of having a rejection or migration are reduced when you piercer uses all the hygienic precaution like a sterilized needle and a heavy gauge needle and pierces deep enough so that the piercing might stay in. Ideally, belly button piercings must be in the 14g to 12g size range. Nevermore let a piercer insert a jewelry size 16g or less; finer-gauge jewels are much more likely to migrate and reject.