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I'm always curious to hear what kinds of different methods people use to heal their mods, specifically piercings and implants.
I personally go to the same shop for everything, and I am always given a bottle of H2Ocean spray to use on my new piercings. I heal pretty quickly compared to most people so I am able to use the spay for usually about a week or so then leave it alone to heal on it's own.
I've never had any issues at all except for my bridge piercing which I had issues with Hypertrophic Scarring for a while, aspirin paste solutions were my best friend, but with all the scarring issues I had for a while, my bridge piercing has gravitated forward slightly. I'll eventually need to get it redone just to even it up, but it hasn't been giving me issues for a while so I haven't bothered to do so.
So what about you guys, how do you care for your fresh mods?
How do you care for your healed mods?
Have you ever had any issues with any of them?
If you have, what were they and how did you treat them, if you did?
Have you ever gotten so frustrated with something you just had it removed?
What advice would you give someone who is just beginning to get mods on what to expect and how to care for them?
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 3:06 pm
Piercings should be cleaned with the Sea Salt Soak, or SSS for short. That's 1/4 teaspoon of pure, organic, non-iodized sea salt dissolved into 8oz/1 cup of bath-water-hot water. Soak for 5-10 minutes at a time, 2-3 times a day. How long you should do this for depends on the piercing itself, but on average it should be done for the first 3 months for all piercings, absolute minimum.
H2Ocean isn't as great as everyone says it is. It's incredibly expensive for the volume you get, $16 for 4oz is a total rip off. 4oz is half a cup, by the way. It's good for on the go cleaning, like when you're out and about, but it shouldn't be your sole method of cleaning. Hot water soaking is incredibly important to healing piercings, since it encourages new cell growth, pulls out dirt and lymph from a new piercing, encourages blood flow and kills off bad bacteria while helping the good. Spraying alone isn't enough.
Hypertrophic scarring, or HT scarring for short, can be treated several ways. First, figure out what's causing it. Switch any rings for barbells, don't sleep on that side, don't pick at it or play with it, make sure it's the right length (too long causes excess movement), and even change material if needed. Once that's done, you can either apply Tea Tree Oil after each SSS, or aspirin pastes. TTO is more effective for me personally than the aspirin pastes, but both are known to be effective.
Tattoos should be left pretty much alone during healing. Apply lotion 2-3 times a day. Lotions should be non scented, non colored, non flavored, no colors, no glitter or shimmer, etc. As pure and basic as possible. My favorites are Aquaphor, Eucerine, and Aveeno. Lubirderm is good, too. Do not peel it, do not scrub it in the shower. Just warm water flushed over it is fine, no direct water pressure, no rubbing it, no soaps, etc. Most tattoos heal within a month or so.
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 6:52 am
Let me first say that my piercings are always a b***h to heal. If you say a piercing takes 2 to 5 months to heal than I will take those 5 months to heal.
Here in Portugal there are a lot of piercing/tattoo shops that advise people to put Bepantene on your healing piercing and a lot of people do that and it works for them but for me it does not work, I did it for my conch and it infected and it was horrible. So I started with the sea salt soaks, I do it 2 times a day for about 2 months and then stop and start to spray the piercing with something like H2Ocean but a portuguese brand that I don't recall the name, but it's awesome and it's been working on my still healing nose piercing.
I developed Hypertrophic Scarring on my conch and on my nose and that was when I started with the sea salt soaks and threw away the bepantene. And I used Tea Tree Oil for the Hypertrophic scarring.
My conch is perfect now and my nose is getting there.
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:43 pm
With piercings, I just do sea salt soaks regularly and leave it the hell alone. Tattoos I just keep clean, dry and start moisturizing them with Aveeno Oatmeal lotion (sans fragrance) after the third day, once it stops being raw and starts tightening. Aquaphor is really nice too.
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