1. Twice a day, AFTER WASHING YOUR
HANDS, take warm water or warmed saline wash/sea salt solution
on a paper towel and soak piercing for a minute or two. A dixie
cup(a new one each time) filled will do for some piercings such
as navel, nipple, ear lobe or penis. For female genital piercings
this can be done seated on a toilet.
2. After the "crusting" has
been softened remove with a wet Q-tip. Flip the Q-tip over and
soak with a few drops of betadine/triadine. Use hibiclens if
you have shown any allergies to shellfish or have had any iodine
reactions.
3. Using the Q-tip, put the betadine/hibiclens
on both sides of the jewelry and on the skin next to the hole.
4. Rotate the jewelry back and forth
to allow the betadine/hibiclens to penetrate the piercing, and
leave on for 3-5 minutes.
5. Rinse using clean warm water. Remember
to rinse well and pat dry. If any traces of color are left,
the piercing needs to be rinsed more. No staining should occur
if ALL the solution is removed.
6. Follow these steps twice a day for
the first 2-3 weeks. After that you may do the soaking and crust
removal twice a day and use the betadine/hibiclens only once
for the length of the remainder of the healing process.
7. Always remember to rinse your piercing
at the end of your shower
with clean running water to remove any shampoo, conditioner
and/or soap.
8. Should you choose to go swimming,
please rinse the piercing with clean water EVERYTIME you will
be out of the water for more than 10 minutes or so and do one
of your cleaning at the end of the session. DO NOT swim in lake
water or like bodies of standing water. Also try to avoid ocean
waves and places that would contain "churning" water
with sand and other impurities.
9. In the case of a penis piercing,
use ONLY non-lubricated condoms.
Use condoms even if you know your partner and normally wouldn't.
This will protect your piercing
from foreign fluids which can be iritating to a new piercing.
And use only water based lubricants, if any are needed.
10.In the case of a piercing that might
be exposed to chemical processes, for example an ear piercing
and hair dye... you may coat your piercing with vasoline or
a similar product to protect it. Making sure it is completely
cleaned off when the process is completed.
(With any piercing, remember to flip your ring up and down as
well as turning it when doing your cleaning, thus preventing
the channel from healing the jewelry into one position.)
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