Caring for Your Body Piercing
Things to Avoid:
1. Avoid clothing and bedding that can snag. Knitted fabrics are especially snag-worthy.
2. Avoid rough contact. For example, sex and contact sports (note: You can have sex… just be careful).
3. Avoid, at all costs, oral contact with other people's bodily fluids. An open wound, like a piercing, is the perfect passage for bacteria, germs, infection and viruses to get into your body.
4. Avoid harsh cleansers like alcohol, peroxide and ointments. If you're going to stray from the soaps and saline discussed above, talk to your piercing professional first, or the pharmacist.
5. Avoid over-cleaning as it can be damaging, and can slow the healing process.
6. Avoid baths. Showers are always best when your piercing is healing, as baths can harbor bacteria.
7. Avoid questionable bodies of water. Lakes, rivers, oceans, swimming pools, Jacuzzis and hot tubs can be crawling with all sorts of unknown bacteria that you don't want in your body piercing. If you must dive in, cover your piercing with a waterproof bandage, and limit your time in the water.
8. Avoid scented or dyed products like lotions, body powders and sprays, perfumes, and other cosmetic products.
9. Avoid alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, recreational drugs and stress.
10. Avoid sun bathing.
