Healing of nipple-piercing (swimming/sauna)
Carsten Tschach
I'm actually short before getting my left nipple pierced with a barbell.
As I normaly go swimming and in the sauna twice a week I asked you
how long I've to wait befor doing this again after the piercing?!
I'm not frighten about the piercing itself, it just the thinks that can
happens after - like infections or even think about what happens when
you sweat...
I finaly want to wear a barbell, but would it be easier to start with a
ring?
Bye, Carsten
The Dragon
Most piercers recommend that you do not swim or use a sauna while you
have an open piercing. You should really wait a couple of weeks to 1
month.
Sweating will not harm your piercing. The most important thing is to
keep it clean. This is why you should start with a ring as you can turn
the ring as you clean the piercing; you cannot clean all of the
jewellery if you have a barbell as, inevitably, there is always some
inside the pierce.
Good luck!
Dragon (*)
Judith Grunberger
> Sweating will not harm your piercing. The most important thing is to
> keep it clean. This is why you should start with a ring as you can turn
> the ring as you clean the piercing; you cannot clean all of the
> jewellery if you have a barbell as, inevitably, there is always some
> inside the pierce.
Many many people experience better healing with a barbell than with a
ring.
For example, my nipples were sore, cranky, crusty, and has started to
migrate when I had rings in -- and I had to keep them flipped up all the
time to alleviate pressure/weight on the piercings. And these were MOSTLY
HEALED PIERCINGS -- I put the rings in after I had had my piercings for
months -- which I healed successfully with barbells.
I switched back to barbells and they were better in 2 days.
--
Judith Grunberger * jcoo...@io.com * http://www.io.com/~jcookson
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Laura Bryannan
>Hi,
>
>I'm actually short before getting my left nipple pierced with a barbell.
>As I normaly go swimming and in the sauna twice a week I asked you
>how long I've to wait befor doing this again after the piercing?!
I would wait until your pierce is no longer producing *any* crusties
before you subject it to the bodily fluids of another person, which
can happen in a swimming pool or sauna.
>I'm not frighten about the piercing itself, it just the thinks that can
>happens after - like infections or even think about what happens when
>you sweat...
>
>I finaly want to wear a barbell, but would it be easier to start with a
>ring?
No. In my experience, nips and navels heal better with straight and
curved barbells, respectively. Barbells hug close to the body and do
not get continually irritated by day-to-day living in the way rings
do. So long as you install a barbell that is 1/8" longer than the
pierce itself, you won't have any trouble cleaning it. You can switch
to a ring after your nip has healed and you'll be fine. Enjoy!
Lab Rat 04
>
>> Sweating will not harm your piercing. The most important thing is to
>> keep it clean.
Living in Phoenix with no A\C in my truck I have found that my sweat made my
nipps itch when they were new but now that its been 3 months they are fine.
Lab Rat (*)
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Miguel de Melo
Grunberger <jcoo...@io.com> writes
>On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, The Dragon wrote:
>Many many people experience better healing with a barbell than with a
>ring.
>
>For example, my nipples were sore, cranky, crusty, and has started to
>migrate when I had rings in -- and I had to keep them flipped up all the
>time to alleviate pressure/weight on the piercings. And these were MOSTLY
>HEALED PIERCINGS -- I put the rings in after I had had my piercings for
>months -- which I healed successfully with barbells.
>
>I switched back to barbells and they were better in 2 days.
>
are initially encouraged to get pierced with ""Barbells"" and have much
better results. I am very proud of saying this, "they do not get
INFECTIONS" from my piercings.
A BCR brings back bacteria from expelled infected fluids, later
crystallised and therefore only successfully removed by the use of an
ultrasonic and after autoclaved.
I believe that our body is usually prepared to reject unwanted bodies in
our system, so if these "bodies" are coming back to our system, we have a
vicious circle, the rejection process is going to be longer and the
healed piercing has got less chances of ending in the required location.
Without mentioning the scar tissue that is produced in the rejection, and
the damage in the surrounding area's tissue support, this could be crucial
for the final appearance of the piercing.
--
Miguel de Melo
TRIBALIZE (London)