Listerine as an antiseptic for ear piercings?
Alcohol FREE mouthwash is best used when caring for oral piercings. For your ears, stick with mild soap and warm water, sea salt soaks, saltwater soaks, or saline solution. Stick with 1 or 2 cleaning methods- too many can irritate it. Things to steer clear from are creams, gels or anything with alcohol in it. Creams and gels will block the flow of oxygen to the hole and can cause bacteria build up. Alcohol dries out the piercing cause irritation. These can prolong the healing process. In my experience, the best person to ask advice on piercings are professional piercers. Most people, including doctors, don't always have the right answers when it comes to piercings. When in doubt give your piercer a call!
Savlon antiseptic solution?
"Inadequate or bad after care techniques will often cause the skin around the piercing to loose its ability to heal properly, often resulting in it causing rejection. Use of disinfectants such as hydrogen peroxide, liquid Savlon, TCP, undiluted Dettol, undiluted Tea Tree Oil, many common antiseptic creams etc. will often do more damage to the piercing site than good." That's off the BMEzine website. If I were you I'd stop using Savlon altogether. The best aftercare for any piercing is a warm salt-water solution (about 1 teaspoon for every 200ml) once or twice a day (it can very from person to person, I always needed minimal aftercare on all my piercings) Good luck!
Can using undiluted savlon ( antiseptic liquid ) on skin cause burns ?
Yes…don't ever use undiluted savlon . savlon and dettol in diluted form at used only for cleaning the area and the region should be again cleaned by sterile water after that ideally. When savlon is left on normal or abraded skin it will cause irritant contact dermatitis. Salon and dettol liquid and soap are biggest fraud in this world. They have no use except cleaningn the area before surgery. In home you ate not doing any surgery, so better clean it with STERILE water( normal saline) and take oral antibiotics like basic or apply topical antibiotic like soframycin depending on the type of injury that's good enough. No need to waste money on antibiotic soap like dettol and dettol lotion. They infact can even cause allergic contact dermatitis and antibiotic resistance , if used indiscrimately. If something kills bacteria, sooner or later the bacteria will be resistant to it. If killing bacteria was so easy then all these high cost antibiotics in hospital are not needed at all.
How can you treat an allergic reaction to an ear piercing?
Take out the stud and replace it with a gold sleeper. You can be allergic to the metals used in piercings (some are even allergic to surgical steel) and if that’s the cause of the problem, replacing with gold should clear things up. I don’t think you can be allergic to gold and turning the sleeper (it’s a hoop) will help the piercing settle.If the reaction persists, see your doctor, he/she will be able to tell you what’s wrong. It could be an allergic reaction, a straight infection or infected eczema - yes, infected eczema is a thing and it won’t heal by itself (I can vouch for that!) but special medicated creams exist which will clear it up in a few days.If you are allergic to the stud, you must avoid anything made from the same substance or you will react again.Hope this helps.
Clear liquid coming out of cartilage piercing?
I got my cartilage piercing 4 weeks ago this Thursday. My piercer told me in 4 weeks (6 at most) I could come back and have her change it. Saving a trip back into town I decided to do it myself a few days ago.. it was okay the first couple days and then today it has been hurting. I went to check it to make sure there was nothing wrong with it, but what I found made me nervous. I looked at the back of the new earring and saw a clearish liquid oozing out. I decided to take the earring out and see what it was. I wiped my ear on a tissue and saw it was just a clearish liquid with a pinkish tint to it. I washed it off like the piercer told me to do when I first got it done and it seemed fine and was no longer sore. Is this a sign that it's getting infected? If so, what should I do?
Undiluted Savlon on Piercing?
I very recently had my cartilage pierced and all was well until my mum thought it would be better if i cleaned it with Savlon antiseptic liquid. we stupidly never read the label and didn't dilute it. my skin around the piercing is quite ravaged and my ear is swollen pretty bad. The pain was so unbearable i couldn't sleep. i put ice on it and the pain stopped but it's still swollen and the skin still looks a mess. Will this stop? Will my ear be normal again? tah xx
Nose piercing infected!?! help?
So I've had my nose pierced since may and it's infected now. It looks like a pimple next to it and its bleeding and pussing is there anyway I can keep my piercing in and get rid of the infection?
Has anyone ever had a bad reaction to using hydrogen peroxide on their piercing?
Hydrogen peroxide kills the cells that are trying to heal your ears as well as beneficial bacteria in the area. This can dry out your piercing by stripping it of its natural oils as well which slows healing. A piercing that is too dry can crack and weep more lymph than one that is left alone. I'm not sure why your lobes would be swollen or draining just from stretching. If you've stretched more than one size or you've stretched too soon (less than a month or more), then you may need to downsize your jewlery to allow your ears to heal properly. Inside your piercings is a tube of skin called a fistula. This skin can only stretch so far at once safely. If you stretch it too far, it can split and tear which can lead to infections and scarring. This is why it is so important to stretch slowly. Downsizing will reduce the pressure on the skin of your earlobes and allow them to heal themselves. If you have a foul smell, redness, pain, or colored discharge then you may need to visit your doctor. If you aren't sure about how to care for your ears, visit your piercer for advice. To help your ears heal, you can clean them once a day with anti-bacterial soap. Don't take the jewelry out, just clean thoroughly around it and rinse it completely. Instead of peroxide, use a sea salt soak to help soothe your ears. Mix 1/4 teaspoon sea salt in 8oz of warm water. Soak your lobes in this solution for a few minutes at a time. This will help your ears heal without stripping them of new cells. You don't want to add extra salt, since too much can dry your skin. If you find 1/4 teaspoon to be drying, use a little less. In the future, stretch one size at a time and listen to your ears. If they don't want to stretch, you need to wait longer. Forcing your ears to stretch is just going to scar you and slow your progress down.