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Normal navel piercing experience?
I have been cleaning it pretty well so far, doing it day and night. I use a salt type solution that I got from the lady piercing it and it is supposed to be one of the best things for it. Although Ive been following her advice my bellybutton is extremely red. I've noticed the skin closest to the piercing is completely white and the skin around that is very red. When I sit down the piercing sometimes moves up and hurts quite bad and will get stuck every once in a while also. This concerns me because my friend can move hers all the way around and it looks much more healed (we got it done together). I heard her and her friend talking about moving it around lots but I thought you were not supposed to bug it or play with it because your hands are full of bacteria and such. Should I be cleaning it more than once or moving it more? Why are they having a less painful, quicker healing it's no fair! Haha
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- BrittanyLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Everyone's body heals differently, that's why you guys are having different experiences. Don't move the jewelry at all, that drags in crust and bacteria and tears up the inside of your piercing. Navel piercings take awhile to heal (6-12 months) and soreness and redness are both completely normal for a healing piercing to have.
I have no idea what Natalie is talking about. If your piercing was infected you'd have a darker yellow/green pus that usually has an odor to it.
A proper sea salt solution (1/4th of a teaspoon of non-iodized sea salt to 8oz of hot water) will keep a piercing from being infected. That or a sterile saline spray with no additives in it. Always go to a reputable piercer with piercing problems, if a doctor is necessary they will tell you but typically a doctor isn't necessary with general piercing problems unless it's something extreme.
Source(s): 29 piercings - NatalieLv 77 years ago
It sounds like an infection.Sucks, but they do happen to people once in a while. If in doubt, go to your doctor and get it looked at properly. Doesn't matter what lame-*** salt-based solution the guy doing the piercing sold you, if it turns nasty then you need to go to a doctor and get a proper antibiotic.
