Is it ok to clean an industrial piercing with alcohol?
Clean it with a warm water and sea salt solution twice a day. Saturate cotton balls and apply them. Remove the crusties with a damp q-tip. It's normal for it not to turn. Once it heals you can turn it. Don't use rubbing alcohol. Seriously. It's horrible for puncture wounds. Only use that when it's healed completely. Good luck!
What is the most effective way to clean my industrial piercing?
When doing your sea salt soaks, you should switch to using cotton balls since they're disposable and won't collect bacteria like the washcloth would. Clean your hands with antibacterial soap whenever your clean your piercing (Satin is pretty good since it's not as harsh). Take Q-tip and run it under some hot water and clean the piercing with that first to try and break up the discharge and the dried blood. Then clean your piercing with the antibacterial soap and wash it again in warm/hot water. You should clean your piercing twice a day with soap and once or twice a day with non-iodized sea salt. Clean it when you get out of the shower, not in the shower. There's so much bacteria and dead cells you're washing off your body, and there's also all the stuff you use to clean yourself, like shampoo, and those don't need to be getting in your piercing. Cleaning your piercing after you've gotten out of the shower will clear out all of that. Be sure to change your pillowcase and towels often as bacteria and dead cells really build up on those, and you don't want that getting into your piercing and infecting it. Do not use hydrogen peroxide or alcohol as those chemicals are extremely harsh on the piercing and will kill all the healthy cells trying to heal the piercing, prolonging the healing period. The chemicals can also ruin the jewelry. I wouldn't worry about the blood, any redness, the soreness being signs of infection right now since your piercing is so new, but in the future, if your piercing is red, aching, itchy, bleeding and there's yellow or green discharge (should be white or cream), then you may have an infection.
How long do i clean an industrial piercing!!!?
Wasn't really a smart move to get it.... You really should not take the jewelry out of an unhealed piercing and your industrial is not going to be healed in a month. They can take around 6 months to completely heal, sometimes upwards to 9 months. Taking the jewelry out and putting it back in while it is unhealed is an easy way to bring bacteria to the piercing and irritate the heck out of it. Plus, it will probably close up for the most part. Take it out, do sea salt soaks until it closes, and get it repierced at a better time when you don't have to keep taking it out. However, knowing that most people are probably too stubborn to do that, clean it twice a day with a ten minute sea salt soak.
What is the best way to care for an industrial piercing?
Same as with other piercings. Do not touch the fresh piercing. Keep the area clean by using saline solution. Boil water then cool it down,add a quarter of tablespoon of non-iodised salt. Dip a cotton wool ball in this solution and hold onto the pierced area. Repeat it w a fresh cotton ball a few times. Do this regime a few times a day and it helps the area heal quicker and without infections. Even if the piercing looks angry red or swollen,saline soaks promote healing and calm infections very well. This method works well for everyone. Another idea is to use a saline spray for piercings such as H2Ocean as it is less fussy to apply. But saline w cotton ball always does the trick to me even when my nose piercings got v irritated /inflamed, saltwater reduced this in just 2 days and the healing was also much faster. In case u have crusties,then u can remove them gently with a q-tip soaked in saline as well. Do not use alcohol or hydrogen peroxide or any other harsh, drying stuff.
Is it okay to clean my industrial piercing with Claire's ear care antiseptic?
Rubbing alcohol and that Claire's solution are never OK to put on a piercing, along with peroxide. They are all too harsh. They dry out the piercing, kill off the good bacteria needed to fight off the bad bacteria leading to higher chance of infection. To clean it properly mix 1/4tsp of sea salt to 8oz hot water, submerge your ear, afterwards rinse with regular water to remove excess salt, gently pat dry. Do this 2-3 times a day 10 minutes each soak.
So how long do you have to clean an industrial piercing for?
First 8 weeks or so - 2-3 times per day Next 8 weeks - 1-2 times per day After that - 1 time per day (usually just rinse in the shower, doing sea salt soaks every few days or when irritated)
How often should i be cleaning my industrial piercing?
You should do it twice a day, even if it's doing okay now it'd be a lot easier for an infection to pop up when you halve your cleanings, so I'd say stick to doing it twice a day at least until 6 months, then you could do it once a day if you feel like it's either healed or very close to being healed (not sore, no crusties, no redness,). If you're not confident that's it's healed, I would just stick to the guidline 9-12 months of cleaning twice a day and then you could decrease and just end up light cleaning it in the shower. Best answer?
New industrial piercing? blood? and good way to clean?
H20cean is alright to be using but your best bet is just warm sea salt soaks. Industrials are hard buggers to take care of because of how your ear bends. Expect it to bleed for the first couple days then it will cease to bleed and instead secrete lymph or whatever it's called. I just call it the crusties. Do not use hydrogen peroxide. It's not for puncture wounds and will only dry the piercing out. When I first got my industrial I used provon on it. I liked it because it was just a simple soap but in the long run it didn't help it as much as the sea salt soaks helped. After a sea salt soak is a great time to get the crusties and dried blood off because the water will loosen there grip making it easier for you to sweep it with a q-tip.
I clean my industrial piercing with a q-tip soaked with saline solution (to clean off blood, crusties etc.) a good method, is there a better technique for cleaning?
This is the way I was also taught to clean piercings. I have heard other people say that they soak them instead, maybe with a cotton pad and the solution. I think this would work if it’s really sore and swollen but personally I prefer your method because you can clean off the excess bits better. :)Also I’ve heard that with other piercings (eg nipple), filling a shot glass with warm water and some rock salt and then holding it against the piercing for up to five minutes is good. I don’t know if this could work for an industrial as the positioning might be a bit awkward?