overcleaning

Chances are you are cleaning your new piercing with saline solution every day…even multiple times a day. Amirite?

Well stop that immediately! Your body is trying to heal by sending white blood cells and new materials to build around the hole you’ve made. All of these cells are busy doing a job and sending vital chemical signals to each other so that everything gets put back in the right place. By cleaning these cells off the messages are being confused and your body doesn’t know when to stop growing. If you continue regular cleaning or soaking these lumps could become permanent so STOP NOW!! In a couple of weeks they will dry up and drop off an leave you with a lovely clean and healed piercing underneath. The body is a marvellous thing and billions of years of evolution have taught it how o heal perfectly. You don’t have to help!