whats a good way to keep your pierced nose from getting infected?

Answer 1

have someone urinate on it

Answer 2

The best way to have it heal rapidly is pretty easy.
Twice a day clean the piercing with a mild soap or even a salt water solution. Try not to move the piercing a lot. If you do it upsets the scar tissue trying to form and takes longer to heal.
If you find you touch it a lot or just somehow managed to get the piercing dirty and a small infection starts, use Bactine or a product like it. Don't be worried about hurting the scar tissue if it gets infected. It can't heal until you take care of the infection anyhow.
Hydrogen Peroxide sounds like a great idea, and will someday do the job, however it seriously upsets the healing process. It can make much more scar tissue the needed (works like picking a scab because it keeps pushing out the tissue), It can also cause slight scaring around the piercing with excessivive use (drying out the skin over and over) as well as bleaching the skin for a short period.
If you had you nose pierced with a piercing gun also watch out for growths. A keyloid can form when cartilage is badly damaged (a gun basically blows the fibers apart).

PS The pee comment isn't that far off. If you pierce your genitals you can use YOUR OWN urine to clean it. Actually a great way because it has a pH that matches your body (assuming you have no bladder or kidney infections)

Answer 3

I got my nose pierced last winter, and it took forever for it to heal.
The place I got it pierced at put in the usual stud; a stainless steel screw. They said it would take about a month to heal. The piercer gave me 'Bactine' to put on the piercing while it healed. So twice a day everyday, I boiled water and used Q tips to dab the boiling water on the wound. Then I would squirt some of the Bactine on, and I thought it was going really well.
Then the month passed by, and there was this huge ugly bump growing underneath the stud. After a bit of researching and a call to the piercing place, they told me I had a 'Granuloma' growing. They said to apply cottong pads soaked with boiling water and salt twice a day, and to give up the Bactine. So I did that for a couple of months, and in the meantime the granuloma got huge and ugly.
So I stopped doing the boiling water thing, and I stated using Polysporin (the topical cream). This wasn't doing anything, and I was sick and tired of having it look so bad, so I just bought a new screw piercing and changed it. At the same time I started using Mecca cream, (right before it was discontinued). Well, this made it totally worse, and I was stated to become embarrased at having people see it. My mother had just gotten the very top of her ear pierced, and was using Polysporin Complete (comes in a sort of black and yellow packaging). Withing a week of using this, the ugly bump shrank down so that it was barely visible.
Every once in awhile though, it still got infected, so I just switched back to wearing my stud. Then I found out that having a screw actually rips at the tissue, and prevents it from totally healing. So everytime you twist it around or change it, it gets infected again from the torn tissue.
Then I bought a post made of white gold (three of them for $50). The white gold though expensive, ensures that it won't get infected. Because of the post, the piercing stops ripping at the tissue, and every night I apply Polysporin Complete and it's been perfect ever since.
So basically just make sure you clean it everyday, and maybe put in a post? Different cleaning methods work for different people, so make sure you try different ones until you find the one that works for you.
Good Luck! =)

Answer 4

Don't touch it, don't let anyone else touch it. Clean it twice a day with sea salt soaks (saline)

DO NOT use rubbing alcohol, peroxide, anti-bacterial soap or any other crap that people recomend. It drys the skin and prolongs healing.

Other than the saline soaks twice daily, LITHA (leave it the hell alone)

Answer 5

Hydrogen Peroxide, it will keep away infection and it doesn't sting. DO NOT USE ALCOHOL. Although it kills bacteria, it does sting and it keeps the wound from healing.

Answer 6

got mine pierced this summer, its fine just make sure you clean it daily (once in morning once in evening) with like a anti-bacterial liquid.
whatever you do don't use peroxide. it will treat it like dirt and attempt to push it out!
make sure you dry it off with a Q-tip! don't let it stay moist and you should be fine!
:)

Answer 7

I was just contemplating this question,and I have to wonder why in H##L would anyone do this. I have seen people in the mall that have this,and many people laugh as they go by. I just shake my head in amazement at what I think is stupidity and drugs at work.

Answer 8

dont' get your nose pierced