1. Twice a day, AFTER WASHING YOUR HANDS, take warm water or warmed saline wash/sea salt solution on a paper towel and soak piercing for a minute or two.
A dixie cup(a new one each time) filled will do for some piercings such as navel, nipple, ear lobe or penis. For female genital piercings this can be done seated on a toilet.
2. After the "crusting" has been softened remove with a wet Q-tip. Flip the Q-tip over and soak with a few drops of betadine/triadine. Use hibiclens if you have shown any allergies to shellfish or have had any iodine reactions.
3. Using the Q-tip, put the betadine/hibiclens on both sides of the jewelry and on the skin next to the hole.
4. Rotate the jewelry back and forth to allow the betadine/hibiclens to penetrate the piercing, and leave on for 3-5 minutes.
5. Rinse using clean warm water. Remember to rinse well and pat dry. If any traces of color are left, the piercing needs to be rinsed more. No staining should occur if ALL the solution is removed.
6. Follow these steps twice a day for the first 2-3 weeks. After that you may do the soaking and crust removal twice a day and use the betadine/hibiclens only once for the length of the remainder of the healing process.
7. Always remember to rinse your piercing at the end of your shower
with clean running water to remove any shampoo, conditioner and/or soap.
8. Should you choose to go swimming, please rinse the piercing with clean water EVERYTIME you will be out of the water for more than 10 minutes or so and do one of your cleaning at the end of the session. DO NOT swim in lake water or like bodies of standing water. Also try to avoid ocean waves and places that would contain "churning" water with sand and other impurities.
9. In the case of a penis piercing, use ONLY non-lubricated condoms.
Use condoms even if you know your partner and normally wouldn't. This will protect your piercing
from foreign fluids which can be iritating to a new piercing. And use only water based lubricants, if any are needed.
10.In the case of a piercing that might be exposed to chemical processes, for example an ear piercing and hair dye... you may coat your piercing with vasoline or a similar product to protect it. Making sure it is completely cleaned off when the process is completed.
(With any piercing, remember to flip your ring up and down as well as turning it when doing your cleaning, thus preventing the channel from healing the jewelry into one position.)
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