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MisPandora -> RE: Nipple Piercing Question (7/7/2007 9:33:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: amaidiamond
Thanks so much habibi, great advice!
It's the not fiddling and playing with them thats the hardest part i think, I have to keep fighting the temptation to fiddle with the bars and I am checking them every couple of hours, I need to learn to keep well alone!
have been adding salt to my bath so that when I soak in there for an hour they get a chance as well as salt water morning and night, only downside is means i have to spend twice as long with moisturiser on the rest of me. The only other piercings i have had is ears, nose and hood, ears and hood healed within weeks and my nose was always iffy, no piercing there now though I may have it done again.
Thanks Muchly!
Please don't fiddle with your piercings, esp not with unsanitized hands when they're this freshly pierced.
Everyone's breasts and bodies are different, so healing times can really vary. Some say 3-4 months. Others 6 for womens' nipples. You've received double piercings (I presume you mean one bar stacked behind another) and that's an advanced piercing -- more healing time and more things can go wrong with them. I had mine for 2 years and they never really healed well, and I know many other women whose nipples just didn't take to being pierced.
Other sage words of advice, other than LITHA (leave it the hell alone!):
1) Keep your hands clean.
2) Warm salt soaks help.
3) Soaps like Provon, Satin are good, but be careful using an antimicrobial for a long amount of time. Eventually, you want to convert to a non-antibacterial. Dr Bronner's soap is wonderful. Be sure to get all of the soap out of the piercing, otherwise, that becomes an irritant!
4) Resist the urge to use antibiotic ointment, peroxide or other first aid agents on the healing piercings. They heal tissue from the outside in, and that's bad on piercings!
5) Don't pick crusties. Loosen them with a warm compress first, then wash with soap and water.
6) The jewelry might be a culprit in resistant healing. Rings in women's nipples can pull on the healing wounds like a lever if they're rolled over in restrictive bras -- especially if you've got heavy breasts. Consult a piercist, and consider changing to barbells until the holes are healed, THEN transition back to rings.
This is the aftercare area from the Association of Professional Piercers: http://www.safepiercing.org/bodyAftercare.html
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