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What can I clean my nose piercing with?

I don't have any salt water to clean my nose piercing, what other things can I use to clean it?

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  • Beery
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    In my opinion, the best thing to use to irrigate a piercing is sterile 0.9% normal saline with no additives. You can get this via amazon.com and other suppliers. It's the ONLY thing doctors use to irrigate and debride puncture wounds, so in my opinion it should be the only thing a piercee should use to treat a piercing during initial healing. If you can't get normal saline, my advice is to leave it alone, as anything with harsh chemicals in it (that includes soaps, antibiotic products, alcohol or bleach) will do more harm than good.

    If you aren't willing to look after a piercing properly, you shouldn't have got yourself pierced in the first place. Body piercings can result in dangerous, even deadly, infections if you fail to look after them properly.

  • 8 years ago

    Bactine is too harsh and saline typically has additives in it that aren't good for an unhealed piercing. Go to the grocery store and get non-iodized sea salt, it's like $3 tops.

    Source(s): 29 piercings
  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Do as Brittany advised in your last question. She gave you specific details on how to take care and clean your nostril piercing.

  • 8 years ago

    Earbud and just dip it in some saline solution

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  • 8 years ago

    baking soda and water

  • 8 years ago

    i would ask at the doctors or boots or something :)

  • 8 years ago

    try bactine. u can get it at,walgreens

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