It is very important to care for your new piercing properly during the healing period--remember, a piercing is a deep puncture wound and should be treated as such. Never touch the jewelry or the area around the piercing with dirty hands. Try to wear clean loose fitting clothing that allows the piercing to breathe. Oral and sexual contact with a new piercing should be avoided, bacteria and viruses are easily transmitted through open wounds! New skin is fragile, so don’t subject your fresh piercing to any heavy play or tugging until well healed. How thoroughly you clean and care for your piercing during the healing process can largely determine how well your piercing will eventually work out. 

Wash your piercing twice a day. You will be able to wash your new piercing most effectively in the shower. Take your shower as you normally would, then at the end of your shower lather up the Anti Bacterial soap on your hands then wash around and over your piercing. Now gently remove all the crusty matter that at this point should be soft, until there is no crusty matter left on the ring. Now get your piercing under the water of the shower and while rinsing your piercing gently move the ring back and forth through your piercing until your piercing is completely rinsed off to the point of no traces of Anti Bacterial soap are left. Only if you are unable to get in the shower two times a day to clean your piercing you may use Bactine or Sensitive Ears solution on a Q-Tip swab to clean your piercing; just repeat the same process as above except you may leave the Bactine or Sensitive Ears solution in the piercing. 

For ears, cartilage, tragus, eyebrow, nostril and septum piercings- Be sure your hands are clean. Liberally soak a cotton swab with Bactine or Sensitive Ears solution, and gently work away any crusty matter that might have developed on the ring. Re-apply the solution, wetting the area and the ring while gently working the jewelry back and forth through the piercing. It is not necessary to wash this disinfectant off. Repeat this twice daily. 

For oral piercing- Brush teeth and tongue twice daily and apply 2-3 drops of Gly-Oxide to the jewelry and work it gently through the piercing and allow the Gly-Oxide to foam up. DO NOT RINSE THE GLY-OXIDE OUT!,SPIT IT OUT! After each meal or smoking of anything, you must rinse your mouth out with Lysterine*. It is important to avoid French kissing during the healing period. *(Dilute lysterine = 50%water 50%lysterine) 

Your body heals better when it is healthy. Eat well and get lots of sleep. You can take a Zinc supplement once a day to help speed healing. Recreational drugs can slow down the body’s healing process. For infections, contact us and/or a physician Although infections are unlikely, they do sometimes occur. Symptoms include excessive redness and/or tenderness around the piercing site, prolonged bleeding and/or excessive discharge, and change or color in tissue or red lines radiating out from the affected area. It is best to leave the jewelry in place until otherwise instructed by a physician because jewelry removed during an infection could possibly develop an abscess. In the case of infected nostril or septum piercing, CONTACT A PHYSICIAN IMMEDIATELY! Infections in this area can be very dangerous 

Never use alcohol or hydrogen peroxide to clean your piercing. These solutions are too harsh and can kill off new skin cells as they form, slowing the healing process. Stick to the less harsh solutions. Occasionally, people have allergic reactions to a solution, which can show up as itching, pealing, redness and/or enlargement of the piercing with a clear fluid "weeping" from the site. If this occurs, contact us so we can find you an alternate solution. 

Keep the jewelry in the piercing for at least six months beyond the healing period. Even after the piercing is healed the hole can quickly shrink down if the jewelry is removed, making it difficult to re-insert. New piercings (less than a year old) are still quite delicate inside and can be torn open if jewelry is re-inserted carelessly.