inverse navel

Friday April 25th, 2008 @ 8:22 AM

Filed under: Navel

I just got my inverse navel pierced last saturday. I was told sea salt soaks or H2Ocean twice a day, as well as cleaning it in the shower were the only necessary cleaning I needed to do.

I’ve been doing that, but the bottom/exit hole has redness around it, probably about an 1/8″ ring. I don’t know if it’s normal for that to happen or if I’m over cleaning/accidentally hitting it often enough.

Do I need to worry or is it normal? This is probably a very typical question, but I’m extremely paranoid of it ever rejecting.

Some redness is very normal for any fresh piercing, but you haven’t said how you’re cleaning it in the shower or what products you use in the shower. It’s entirely possible that the piercing might be getting slightly irritated if you’re using any harsh antibacterial soaps or whatnot on it, but in all likelihood, it’s probably just a fresh hole in your body with a piece of metal in it, trying to heal. If you have any concerns about your piercing, your first course of action should be to go in and consult your piercer, not to ask Teh Intarweb, just so’s you know - they’ll be able to give you a lot more insight from a glance at your piercing than I will from a description or a dodgy photograph!

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Take it out or leave it in?

Wednesday February 13th, 2008 @ 4:28 AM

Filed under: Navel

I have my navel pierced since february last year, it’s still not healed, there is no sign of infection, no redness or anything else, but there is a small amount of withish liquid that comes out of it, I do think it’s lymph but I’m not sure, it does smell bad, I put vitamin E on it and it looked fine but juste for a couple of hours (maybe 6) I put H2Ocean on it two or three times a day since maybe a month. Finally my question is do you think it might me some kind of infection? and should if so do you have any treatment plus, if it’s not an infection should I take it out, let it heal and re-pierce it at another time?

sorry if there is any mistake my writting in english is not that good.

Whitish fluid is most definitely skin cells, body oils,etc what is most commonly referred to as “lymph”…It is often common especially with lower quality materials…Do you happen to know anything about the jewelry you have currently? What metal type is it? Is it Externally Threaded (Ball screws onto post) or Internally Threaded (ball screws into the post)?

Without seeing it in person I can only assume its just lymph and nothing to be concerned about. If anything however instead of just spraying it with a saline solution you should actually soak it to flush the pathway out.

But I will definitely say I doubt there is any infection present or anything like that. As with infection there is usually inflammation (redness, swelling,etc)

Posted by Warren Hiller | Permalink | 9 Comments

Standard or Inverse?

Tuesday February 5th, 2008 @ 10:15 PM

Filed under: Navel

Hi!

I’d like to ask a quick question: generally which piercing is easier to heal: a standard or an inverse navel?

My standard one is 3 months old and its still healing but I guess its normal.

Asking about what piercing has a better healing time, is like asking how long is a piece of string?

Its all subjective to each persons individual body type,etc. Some people are suitable only for the standard navel piercing, while others can be only suitable for an inverse and some people just aren’t suitable for either.

Now if we’re going to just throw it out there and hypothetically view a navel as being suitable for both a standard and inverse navel, again its really just up to the persons body on how it wants to heal. So long as the proper jewelry quality/type is used and the client follows proper aftercare protocols, its all left up for the body to determine how long its going to take to heal.

A still healing 3 month old standard navel is pretty common as sometimes it can even take upwards to 6 months or longer for some people. I normally suggest clients to not change their jewelry for at least around the 4-6 month period and even then when changing it, to make sure they change it to a autoclaveable/sterilized piece of jewelry.

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