Drinking and Piercings

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Tuesday February 5th, 2008 @ 9:24 PM

Filed under: Piercing

Just a question out of curiosity. I’ve noticed that when I drink heavily, or get wasted, when I wake up the next day, my piercings are MUCH crustier than usual and sometimes they’re pretty sore. I know its because of the drinking, but do you know exactly how alcohol affects piercings? I just imagined it was my body trying to flush out the alcohol and since there are open holes on my body, it’s a natural place for it to go?

Essentially Alcohol dehydrates and irritates the body. Remember what you’re drinking is technically considered a toxic liquid to our body, hence the term inTOXICation. Because of heavily drinking aka getting wasted, you’re putting your body through A LOT of stress and are even damaging it. Because of this stress and damage your body is working to correct the issues you plagued it with that night before when you drank yourself blind. So it wants to just heal everything, that includes the holes that are foreign to your body ie: piercings. So skin cells are being generated to close the foreign hole (the piercing) as well as the natural body oils that are created as well,etc.

Hence why drinking in moderation is always the key…Not just for keeping your body from getting too damaged, but also to reduce the amount of nasty crusty discharges that occur around your piercings.

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