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When can I swim after a genital piercing?
Swimming after fresh piercing should be avoided for the first month. If you choose to go swimming during the healing period the most important thing to do is clean your nipple piecing immediately afterwards. Your piercing may be infected if you experience: A red and swollen appearance.
How long after getting a belly button piercing can you swim in a pool?
In order to prevent irritation or infection occurring around your new piercing wound, it’s recommended that you wait for at least three weeks until swimming with a new belly button piercing.
Can you swim with infected piercing?
It’s possible to pick up an infection from any body of water, so while your piercing heals you should avoid swimming in: swimming pools. streams, lakes and rivers.
Is chlorine bad for a new piercing?
Plus, chlorine — which is perhaps best known for turning hair green — can also act as an irritant, which may cause extra discomfort for brand new piercings. So, sanitary or no, it’s probably best to avoid swimming pools for a spell when you’ve got a fresh piercing.
It is recommended that you do not wear high waisted jeans to your piercing appointment. After you have your belly button pierced, high waisted jeans would compress the new, sore site and potentially snag your jewelry. This will only lengthen the healing time and may even cause permanent trauma to your skin.
Can I shower after belly piercing?
Showering with a New Belly Button Piercing You should never soap up a new belly piercing directly, because soap can dry out your skin and irritate a new piercing. It’s okay if sudsy water runs over your belly button piercing when you’re showering, but you should wash it exclusively with sea salt solution.
What happens if you go swimming with a new piercing?
We recommend avoiding swimming for the first two weeks after a piercing. For piercings to heal it is important that the area remains clean and dry. Swimming also surrounds the opening of the piercing with bacteria which can cause infection by entering the opening in your skin.