How to cure an infected industrial piercing

When we get a piercing, wherever it is, one of the factors to be more attentive to is the symptoms of infection. The first few days you may feel discomfort and heat in the area, but you should attend to the following symptoms of an infected industrial piercing To determine if it is healing well or badly and you have to treat it to eliminate the infection:

• Redness: It is normal that, from the time you get the piercing until two days later, you have the area around the hole a little red, since the body is in the process of healing. However, if after days it remains the same red, without improvement or has been expanding, it may be a sign that an infection has begun.
• Inflammation: inflammation is another of the effects that most confuse people who are new to this world. The body needs to recognize that foreign element that it has just received and, therefore, it is normal for the area to look a little swollen. However, if the inflammation does not stop even with anti-inflammatories and is accompanied by more symptoms from this list, the most common is that it is an infection
• Pain: Getting a piercing hurts at the time of the puncture and during the days after. Some bodies heal better than others, but the process is slow. However, this type of pain, as the days go by, ends up being manageable and bearable, without hindering your daily activities. If, on the contrary, the pain does not stop, goes to more or does not let you carry on from day to day, you should think that your piercing is healing badly.
• Pus: pus is the biggest indicator of infection in piercings. You may have a small scab around the first few days that you should not touch to speed up healing, but if a yellowish fluid begins to ooze, there is no doubt that your piercing has become infected.
• Ball in the infected ear piercing: A small or larger ball may appear just at the point of the perforation. This lump can be hard or soft and contain pus, which will come out and you will have to clean and disinfect. If you notice a lump, pay attention to it and try to heal the area well, as it may mean that it is not healing completely well or that there is an infection.

In addition to all this, we must attend, when drilling ourselves, to know the risks of each area. The tongue, belly button, nose and some areas of the ears are more prone to infection. Industrial piercing can bring us problems if we do not take good care of it, because we must pay close attention to it as it is a double piercing and because it has a bar that could get tangled with hair or clothing more easily than a single piercing and flatter piercing.

Here we tell you more about How to know if a piercing is infected.

If we have already determined that our industrial piercing is infected with the above signals, we must try to stop it as soon as possible. Our recommendation from UnCOMO is that, if as the days go by, go quickly to the doctor for advice and take care of your health, but, to begin with, we leave you a list of tips to treat industrial piercing infection:

• Cleaning: Wash your hands well every time you go to handle or clean your industrial piercing so that the infection does not go further.
• Remove the pus: If you have pus, with the help of a cotton swab, try to remove it without removing the scab to help healing.
• Saline solution: Either from a pharmacy or by mixing 1/2 teaspoon of salt with 1 cup of warm water, apply this solution with a cotton ball to the infected area and let it air dry.

However, as we said, if the infection is getting worse, you will need to see a doctor as soon as possible to prescribe an antibiotic and assess your wound before determining any type of intervention.

In this other post you can learn more tips on How to disinfect an infected piercing.

If, luckily, we have not reached the point of infection of the industrial piercing or if we have already overcome it and we want it to heal and heal as quickly and as well as possible, here is a list of ear piercing care called industrial and that, surely, they will also have provided you in the piercing studio where you did it:

• Wash your hands: every time you go to handle or touch your piercing, you must wash your hands to avoid infecting the area.
• Neutral soap: we must wash the area twice a day with neutral antibacterial soap. With the help of our little finger, we must reach the areas behind the ear and the metal rod and, later, try to rotate it with the help of the two grip balls. In this way we will remove dead skin and clean all areas so that dirt and bacteria do not accumulate.
• Serum: in the same saline solution that we mentioned in the previous section, you can immerse the pierced ear for 5 minutes or dab it with a clean gauze, leaving it to dry on its own.
• Consistency: this piercing usually takes up to 6 months to heal, so the key to success will be constant care, avoid touching and moving it, and be careful when sleeping or putting on clothes so that it does not catch.

As you have seen, getting a piercing requires commitment and responsibility so that the results are good and to take care of your health, but that this does not put you back because if you follow the instructions that you have been given in the piercing studio, in principle , everything should be fine.

Learn more tips about how to heal an ear piercing well by reading this other article.

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Advice

• Never apply alcohol to an infected piercing, it can burn the area and make it worse.
• Always use anti-allergenic materials to avoid reactions and promote healing.
• Make sure that the study you go to follows all the safety and hygiene measures.