What can you do to prevent a belly button piercing from rejecting?
There's no guarantee with navel piercings. As with all surface piercings; like eyebrows or dermal anchors, the risk of rejection is higher than with other piercings. Some people are more prone to rejection, and there's no way to tell if you're one of them, unless perhaps you have immunological or autoimmune issues. But I have both, and I have great luck with piercings.The best way to try to stay ahead of the odds is to care for your piercing as best you can. Follow your piercer's directions to the letter. Past initial healing, keep your piercing as clean as possible. You should still wash it with a plain soap and water in the shower/bath long after it's healed. Little germies, and actual infections can trigger a rejection.Protect your piercing from damage. Don't wear pants or skirts that rub up against your navel. It's 2016, so that shouldn't be a problem. I got mine done in 1999, and was still wearing higher-waisted jeans, so. Avoid bags, towels, etc. hitting the piercing. A small injury to a piercing can also trigger rejection. Once it's fully healed, take it out for water slides, sport, or rough housing if you think it will be an issue.If you see any sign of infection, take it to the doctor ASAP. That's pain, redness, swelling, or pus. Infections can turn bad quickly, and trigger rejection, so a little caution is warranted. Treating the infection with antibiotics and cream from the doctor as quickly as possible can avert rejection.Otherwise, it's up to your body. I got my navel done in 1999 , never had a problem, same with the eyebrow and the tons of earrings. It was the dermal implant I got in 2011/12 that rejected within a year. Who knows why. Take care of the piercing, , enjoy it, and remember that the majority or navel piercings don't reject.Good luck!
Is my bellybutton piercing rejecting (Pictures)?
This piercings is rejecting and the jewelry should be removed as soon as possible to prevent more scarring. The heavy and dangly jewelry could have triggered rejection. If rejection started there is nothing you can do to undo it or save the piercing. The best thing to do is remove the jewelry asap. The sooner you remove the jewelry on rejected piercings the less the scarring will be. You can wait until the skin around is healed as much as possible and re-pierce to give it a second try. Rejection does not hurt a all. The clear/white discharge you have is normal while the piercing is healing ( at least 6 months for a belly piercing to fully heal ). Redness is a sign of rejection. Red not painful and not irritated skin around both or just one of the exits of the piercing. As rejection is progressing the skin around the exits is getting more loose and the skin in the middle in the late stages is thin. Belly button piercing is a surface piercing and all surface piercings have a high rejection rate. For x reasons our body stops recognizing the jewelry, sees it as a threat and starts to push it out of the body. What triggers rejection : Heavy/dangly jewelry, any kind of irritation like playing with the piercing/sleeping on it/touching it, accidents like hitting the piercing or caught it on things, poor aftercare etc. Even if you take good care of a surface piercing it can still start to reject. This is just a risk we all take when we decide to get a surface piercing. The best jewelry material is titanium ( less heavy ) and of course we're talking about the plain curved barbell. No dangly jewelry on surface piercings. You know when a piercing is infected if deep yellow or green fluids are coming out. White and clear discharge is normal and part of the healing process. Pain, swelling are also normal during the healing process and they have nothing to do with rejection. Rejection is not easy to identify on time and can be easily identified on the last stages which is already too late. You need to be experienced with piercings to tell on time so that you'll be left with the minimum scarring.
How often does a belly button piercing reject?
It happens occationally usually more due to irritation or catching it rather than anything else. Chances are you will be fine, if you don't get it done you will never know. Hope this helps.
What is navel piercing rejection?
A piercing rejection is when your immune system forces jewelry out of your body.Pieces of jewelry are obviously foreign objects. When you get a piercing, which is considered a wound, your body tends to not want it there. Most piercings migrate, which is a result of the immune system. Some piercings only migrate a tiny bit, but excessive migration can lead to rejection. Luckily, most piercings that go through lobes or cartilage don’t reject, though it could happen.However, surface piercings, like navel piercings or eyebrow piercings, have a much higher rejection rate compared to non-surface piercings, like most ear piercings. Surface piercings don’t often go through cartilage or thick pieces of skin, meaning they are more vulnerable to rejection.If a piercing is being rejected, you should take the jewelry out as soon as you can. Leaving it in until the body completely expels the jewelry increases the risk of scaring. Signs of rejection include; piercings not healing in estimated time, thinning of the skin around the piercing, jewelry hanging more loosely around the piercing, the size of the piercing (the hole) increasing, the piercing becomes sore/red/tender/swollen as time goes on (however, this could also be a sign of infection).Don’t be deterred by a rejection. Remove the jewelry, wait for the area to heal, and you can always try again. Some people are more susceptible to rejecting than others. Some people will always have piercings reject, others will not. One of my mom’s coworkers had to pierce her bellybutton three times before it stopped rejecting.If you can see the metal through the skin, because it is so thin, you need to remove it.A2A
Can I get my rejected belly button re-pierce after a month?
This is a difficult question to answer online. The answer is dependent on what happened to your piercing in the first place. Was it too shallow, where there metal reactions, was it snagged etc. These are things a competent piercer should ask before performing another piercing in that area. The main question is…why did it reject. Then after determination the answer, a decision would have to be made on whether or not a piercing would be viable after a month and not migrate up towards the existing piercing channel.
My bellybutton piercing has rejected twice. Is there any way I will ever be able to keep a belly button ring?
Get it pierced deeper, behind the old scar tissue, and make sure its titanium.You could also try PTFE, as its bendy, and puts less pressure on the piercing. Wear clothes that don't put snag at it, and generally look after it. Belly piercings are a pain though. Sometimes they take a few attampts before they decide to stay. And occasionally, people just don't seem to get on with them at all. Gold jewellery is a bad idea. You can't get pure enough gold for body piercings, as it would be bendy. And they mix the gold with all sorts of other metals, like nickel, and thats the stuff alot of people are allergic to. Titanium is nearly completely nickel free. Especially implant grade titanium. And niobium is even better, but you can only BCRs out of that... I've never heard of anyone allergic to quality titanium anyway.
If my belly button piercing rejected, will my nipple piercings also reject?
You should be fine. I have 22 piercings and have had 24 total. My bellybutton has been the only one to reject. And it's done it twice. But, I've never had any problem with my nipple piercings. A bellybutton piercing is a surface piercing, which has a high rejection rate. Nipples RARELY reject. I say go for it !(:
How to heal skin faster? (belly button piercing rejection)?
Belly button piercing is a surface piercing and as we all know surface piercings have a high rejection rate. Only a piercer can tell you how much time is needed to safely re-pierce so that the piercing has better chances of staying put and not rejecting again. Piercing through a recent rejected piercing/thin skin raises the chances of rejection. There is something you can do to help the skin recover and remove the scar tissue. Get some olive oil or any other oil actually and start massaging the area 2-3 times a day until it becomes red. The blood circulation will help to finally 'crack' the scar tissue and make it go away. You need to be patient though because this takes time and do not skip massages. This technique is well known for fading skin scars and very popular among the piercing community for rejected piercings and retired ones. Best jewelry material for belly button piercings is Titanium. Stainless steel is heavier. I've had something like 30 piercings so far and my favorites are surface ones. Surface piercings have a high rejection rate so as you can guess I've experienced rejection few times in the past. My eyebrow piercing started to reject 4 years after I got it done and refused to remove it on time ( my fav piercing ) so I have a little scar there. It was extra red and the skin was thin for the first year after the removal of the jewelry. After 3 years the scar is not that visible anymore. Re-pierced it ( a few months after the first rejection ) and started to reject again within days , cause of the bad skin in the area, which was expected. The sooner you remove the jewelry on a rejected piercing the less the scarring will be and the sooner you can safely re-pierce.