2006-12-30 10:11:09 · 7 answers · asked by Donnielle B 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
to clean ur belly button...Get antibacterial soap from a pump (such as Dial). The pump soap is preferred as bar soap gets dirty.
If you're cleaning in the shower, wash the rest of your body first.
If you're not in the shower, make sure you wash your hands first!
Gently apply the soap with your finger tips to the piercing area.
Rinse thoroughly!
Air dry.
If you wish to use salt water, try products like H2Ocean, which is avialable online, is safe to use to clean your piercing. It is a sterile mix of distilled water and sea salt and is formulated specifically for piercings. You just spray it on. Alternatively, you can mix your own with 1 tablespoon sea salt to one gallon distilled water, but it won't be sterile.
TIPS!!!
Savlon spray (antiseptic wound wash) is a even easier way. You can buy it from most chemists or pharmacies. Just spray over the belly bar a couple times and then wipe off any extra liquid.
Your piercing should be clean 3-5 times a day. Please understand that a navel piercing can take up to 12 months of healing. You must be willing and preapered to care for this piercing 3-5 times a day for the entire healing time. You should NEVER touch this piercing until fully healed except when you are cleaning it. Excess movement causes rejection, infection, and keloids (scar tissue). This piercing should not be submerged in water, so no swimming, baths, hot tubs, lakes, rivers, etc. This piercing hould only get wet while cleaning it.
2006-12-30 10:20:28 · answer #1 · answered by AJanae W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saline works also, but I think with the sea salt it will keep infection and the swelling/pain down. When i had my belly button pierced, I used sea salt mixed with warm water and held it on my belly button for about 5 mins, and it made the pain go away a lot faster and it kept it from pussing and getting all gross. It's you're preference though, I think sea salt is safer than saline because your body could react to the chemicals in saline differently.
2006-12-30 10:20:04 · answer #2 · answered by kaiyas_mom07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much the same thing. I would use some listerine and a cotton swab before I used saline. Nothing works better at killing bacteria than a good old fashioned antiseptic. Clean it every day and make sure to dry it off after showers. Stay out of pools and the ocean for extended periods. If it dries out then be sure to use a THIN layer of neosporin around the piercing. No matter what, if the piercing becomes infected, take the ring or stud out and let the hole heal. Better safe than sorry. You can always get a new piercing. Baby yourself and it should heal just fine.
2006-12-30 10:23:11 · answer #3 · answered by Dick Haloren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well i would suggest Piercing Solution or Hydrogen Peroxide to clean a piercing (which, I assume, is what you are doing). I've never heard of using salt. However, if you were told sea salt is ok (which btw you can find at any grocery store) then I'm sure Epsom salt is fine :)
2016-05-22 22:01:34 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saline is salt water. I can't notice any difference between sea salt and regular salt other than the hype and the price. Use some antibiotic salve on it when dry such as Neosporin or generic analogue.
2006-12-30 10:23:42 · answer #5 · answered by lyyman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u were told to use the sea salt solution for a reason, its the best thing to use. i bought sea salt at target (retail store) and it wasnt expensive. It isn't hard to mix the solution. just use it.
2006-12-30 13:48:32 · answer #6 · answered by cuddlebuddy_wanted 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sea salt is the best it is natural and extracts the germies out
2006-12-30 10:19:14 · answer #7 · answered by undercovernudist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋