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Wednesday. 4.6.11 7:19 pm

THIS.

1. Pain is regular for most piercings for the first week to week and a half. It does not always indicate an infection.
2. Pus is not spelled with a double 's.'
3. YOU DO NOT EVER USE ALCOHOL ON A PIERCING. Maybe it disinfects, but it also takes away all the natural bacteria used in the HEALING PROCESS.
4. YOU NEVER REMOVE THE PIERCING IF IT'S INFECTED! Augh! If it's infected, you leave it in and treat until the infection is gone.
5. Pus discharge is pretty normal for ANY infection. Just because there's some pus present doesn't mean you need oral medication for it. That's like assuming every case of gas is appendicitis.
6. Antiseptic creams...just simply don't work that well. No one in the piercing community uses them.
7. Let me add onto #3: YOU NEVER--NEVER!!!--USE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ON A PIERCING. Unless you want it to hurt and heal half as quickly.

UGH. This was the first link on the page searching "bellybutton piercing infection." I can't imagine how many bellybutton rings this article has RUINED.

Not much bothers me, honestly, but misinformation in a public forum infuriates me. I wish people had to put money on their correctness.

All you have to do is treat the infection--oh, I'd say every other day, with a hot saltwater solution (which you have to be careful with), and twice to three times daily with a regular purified ocean water piercing aftercare spray. I know this because I've had pretty gnarly infections, and this is simply what works. All my friends with multiple piercings agree. I mean shoot, even the piercers agree.


Gah. Sometimes, when people are THAT incorrect, I want to bet money on it.


...So.

I'm dying for a reply from a certain group of people...

I'll let you know if I get it and it's the reply I want. Yeah!


Anyway. Um. MY BIRTHDAY IS COMING UP.

I think that, for my birthday, along with another completed year of life, God took down the annoying, outdated crosswalk signal with this giant storm that I somehow slept through. It always flashed too long before the light turned green and made the most annoying sound known to man. BEEP BOOP. BEEP BOOP. BEEP BOOP. BEEP BOOP.

So I was walking to class, one day, and noticed that IT HAD FALLEN IN THE STORM!

!!!!!:DDDDD

THANKS!

Happiness there.



NOTHING TO SAY WAAHHH.
6 Comments.


happy birthday before i forget.
» renaye on 2011-04-06 10:16:43

I had no idea there were outdated crosswalk signals. :S
» randomjunk on 2011-04-06 10:20:33

BIRTHDAY?! Who needs birthdays. I've totally ignored the day of my birth since my freshman year, and that's because I refuse to believe that I'm getting older and older as each year passes.

Nevertheless, HAPPY SOON-TO-BE BIRTHDAY. Congrats on the destruction of that crosswalk signal. Although if a storm is able to take down a crosswalk signal, even if it is outdated, it seems to be some really big storm down there. And you slept through it?!
» peanutmelon on 2011-04-08 11:54:53

I'm fairly sure that bacteria don't help in the healing process
It's just your own cells that do the work. But yeah, washing out a wound in alcohol or something isn't good, especially after a day or two. You're right about not wanting to completely sterilize everything
» middaymoon on 2011-04-09 01:01:31

Where did you read that? I am intrigued.
» middaymoon on 2011-04-09 07:33:37

Huh. Well, I guess it all comes out to the same thing, as far as treating wounds, so it's a moot point. But as far as technicalities, I can't find any evidence of useful bacteria living on our skin. In our intestines, certainly.
» middaymoon on 2011-04-09 08:55:44

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