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Tragus piercings. Aftercare tips?
I got my Tragus done yesterday and my piercer forgot to tell me when I can change the jewelry and how long to wait for it to heal can anyone tell me? How many times a day should I clean it? Also I have my Industrial piercing I got it done in May 2011. But it still hasn't healed my piercer said it would heal in 6months-1 year I clean it with sea salt mix and H2ocean is there anything else I can try that will help it heal cause I don't think the sea salt is helping. It doesn't hurt anymore but if I sleep on it I'm sure it will.
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- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
in my experience its best to wait until a cartaliege piercing is completely healed to change it, the tragus is a fiddly piercing to change and you could cause a lot of damage and a infection trying to change it to early. clean it twice a day for 4 weeks then just once a day for another 4 weeks - over cleaning can cause a infection as much as under cleaning, use salt dissolved in BOILED water. leave your other piercing alone if its not hurting and isn't infected then just leave it to heal by its self, try not to knock it or sleep on it, if your worried about sleeping on it put a little bit of mircopore tape over it i found this really helps.
- KatehLv 59 years ago
Continuing with the "salt mix" (which I assume to be 1tbs of sea salt to a cup of warm water) is the best you can do for both piercings. Unfortunately there's not much to do for your industrial but to leave it alone. If it's not bumped or touched/played with, it should slowly start to heal some more. As I'm assuming you haven't had an infection in it, it should be healthy and clean... there shouldn't be long before you're able to play with it though, if it's not continually aching.
Tragus aftercare is the same as the industrial, really. It'll be easier if you decide to use q-tips to clean the tragus, q-tips were useless when I tried to clean my industrial with them.
Jewellery change should go ahead at about 8 weeks at earliest, if you've had no problems.
Good luck!
- 9 years ago
ive used bactene for all of my piercings and had no issues..cleaned my tragus once in the morning and once at night for 3 months and i was fine same with all of my other piercings