a few piercing questions...LITHA?

Question

for those of you who follow LITHA with your piercings, have you ever noticed a difference in how much it crusts up?

example:
i have two lip piercings, done at separate times. the first one, I was religious about cleaning. didn't really have bad crust until the third week and by the fourth it had stopped. my second, i pretty much followed LITHA with the exception of my consuming certain food and drink and it was crusty until it healed.

another example:
my first two cartilage piercings were a rook to forward helix orbital. even with good cleaning, I still developed a hypertrophic scar and had/still have (still a healing piercing) massive crusties. my conch (on the other ear and only a little over a month old) I've followed LITHA and its hardly gets crusty at all.

strange?

funw/sharpthings · Accepted Answer

for me, leaving it alone resulted in more tenderness and what seemed like a longer healing period.  saline soaks are soooo much better, in my opinion.  my theory is that the litha method was developed from a lack of information.  we know now that doing nothing is better than soaking with peroxide, for example.
it just doesn[t make sense to me, and i know for a fact that litha will not work for everyone.  i believe that the idea is to cater to the few who will have issues with other forms of aftercare.  saline soaks works best for everybody, not just some or most.

Paigeybear · Answer

I don't think I've noticed a difference in crusties.  Maybe because I LITHA after two to four weeks after getting my piercings.  So maybe the crusties die down a bit by that point anyway?

Anonymous · Answer

i have a question , & i know it depends on ur 'pain tolerance'  but did it hurt wen u got ur lip done ? could u write me back at daniellej719@yahoo.com i wanna kno cuz im plannin on getting mine done next wk = ] thanks. others can answer this to

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