Infected belly button piercing

[Sarahh!!]

Heyy guys! I need HELP! I got my belly button pierced about 1 and 1/2 months ago and just recently when I changed my barbell, (not for the first time) a red bubble thing appeared on the top hole. I'm pretty sure this means its infected...should I take the piercing out??? I really hope I dont have to because I dont want a nasty scar there I red somewhere that PURE aloe Vera will take the bump away overnight or something like that?...Is that true??

[Hollie14]

Hey Sarah!
I know how you feel
I got my belly button pierced when I was about 11 or 12 years old and now I am 14. Mine got infected at first but all you have to do is wash it with salt water and a cloth every night (you have to keep it really clean to begin with) but after a few months it will look and feel perfectly fine! Sometimes I forget I have my belly button pierced because I've had it done for so long, but it becomes a part of your body and you'll look at your stomach and you wont be able to imagine yourself without it, I'm serious!

[*love*peace*empathy*]

Hey sarah, yea hollie 14 is so rite....ive had mines peiced since november...nearly a year now...its gone so fast but yea just do what she said but u really do have to stick with it i nearly took mines out completely after 6 months becoz i thought it was infected i had a huge lump under and above the peircing but then one day i woke up and everything seemed to be rite....now my belly bars just pop in and out with ease....u will know its fully healed when u can do that....just dont mess with it to much and be patient....enjoy xx

[^Orange^]

I don't think it's an infection - it sounds like an ingrown hair. I had one, and it went away after a while. If it doesn't go away by itself, try using Clearisal daily face wipes on it...worked for me But if you're worried about it, get it checked by your piercer or doctor?

[longstayer]

Would you allow some tatoo'd guy in a back street shop to cut you open and whip out your appendix? No? why not? becuase he isnt surgically trained and his equipment may not be surgically sterile. Also the equipment has probably be used on dozens of other people. So why let him punch a hole through your skin and stick a microscopically diry piece of metal through it?. It just isnt worth the risk for fashion but of course its your choice.

[^Orange^]

longstayer...I don't really think that's a fair comment. How do you know that the person who did the piercing wasn't trained, and their equipment wasn't sterile? I'm not debating that there aren't people out there like that...of course there are....but no information has been given in this case that anything like that went on, so don't scare the poor girl! There are great piercers out there, who are well trained, and very careful. My piercer has a policy where they show you the sterile equipment being taken out of their sealed wrappings, and you have to sign the bags to show that they really were sterile and new. Everything is sterilised before use, and my piercer is not 'some tatoo'd guy', either. I think you have some stereotypes going on here

[Guest]

mine has done jst the same after 4months ... a red bubble type thing so i cleaned it and put gerolene antiseptic cream on and covered it but it seems to have gone worse.. its not infected but its a delayed reaction.. go see your doc, i booked an appmt for thurs.. i hope it will be alright.. is yours ok now?

[*love*peace*empathy*]

hey...going to your docter is a really good idea but i assure u thats usually what happens around that time....i got my belly button pierced with all of my friends and everyone of us had that at sum time...do visit ur docter but seriously it's nothing to worry about....on the topic of piercings...has anyone got thier tongue pierced on here....if u do could u tell me ur experiences please and also whats it like kissing and giving blow jobs....i really want me tongue done im worried about ppl freaking out and incase i cant giv blowjobs anymore....any advice would be cool....thanx

[^Orange^]

Hey there I have my tongue pierced...and trust me, it doesn't stop you doing anything. My only warning about tongue piercings is only get it done if you really really want it - make sure that you do...because it's a pain in the ass when it's healing, and you can't eat, and it's swollen, and you have to sleep with your mouth open.....so if you don't REALLY want it done, it's not worth it! But if you DO really want it done, go for it. Kissing feels a little weird at first, but once you get used to it you don't even notice a difference. And in terms of other stuff...let's just say that after the first time with my tongue pierced, my boyfriend's reaction was "damn, I'm REALLY happy you got that pierced..."

[xluv 3x]

Ure not realli ment to change it untill its had 3 months to hea. Thats why its got a red bubble !!!!!

[Guest]

i really want my belly button pierced but I'm not sure.

do you think it's worth the risk ????

[*love*peace*empathy*]

what risk are you not sure of taking? the only risks i can think of are it getting infected and then youll just have to take it out, i also heard that if the infection gets really bad that it can do sumthing to your womb...but im not sure if thats true, sumone probably just told me that to stop me getting my tummy pierced...i think you should go for it, at the end of the day you may aswell try it out becoz if it gets infected then you will have to take it out but u can say you tried it...on the other hand it could go really well and youll have a hot piercing...if you have a history of dodgy piercings that never really heal then youll probably just know yourself wether to go ahead with it or not....hope that helps you....enjoy

[DancehallQueen]

Mines got infected. after the healing process was finished.....well at least it looked infected...it kinda looked like it had a little split at the top of the top hole n it was kinda gross(lil blood, puss, aggravation..etc)... but i started cleanin it again..now its a lil sensative but generally waaaaaaaaaaaaay better and um tryna be patient...now that i have read u lots comments tho um not 2 sure because at the top of my top hole i have a little bubble thing2....its dark on the sides but in general is redish....i was freakin out coz it kinda looked like my skin was growin up covering my peircin...wtf is that thing coz um been researching all morning 2 find out!

[chic]

I don't think it's an infection - it sounds like an ingrown hair. I had one, and it went away after a while. If it doesn't go away by itself, try using Clearisal daily face wipes on it...worked for me But if you're worried about it, get it checked by your piercer or doctor?

You obviously have no clue what she's talking about -- maybe yours didn't get infected but I've had mine for a year and while it can be fine for a month one day I'll wake up with a keloid. I have one now, it's the biggest I've ever had and it's bleeding and I'm freaking.

my point: it is NOT an ingrown hair, it IS an infection.

The other chick was right, you can use sea salt, or a professional pericing antibacterial soap that has no perfumes or anything in it...

Worst case scenario, if you go to your doc they can give you an antibiotic which will help. -- as a matter of fact, the last time I had one I got a nasty spider bite and the antibiotics from that healed my peircing right up. The one on my wrist was infected too but now it's all good

the infection is brought on by sweat, clothes rubbing, pools with chlorine levels that aren't quite right, etc. Basically you're suseptable to infection for 1-2 yrs. Just keep cleaning it, you'll be fine

[DancehallQuaan]

mmm....my bumpz basically gone now....but i'm goin 2 keep cleaning it 4 the longest while...i think my peircer peirced 2 much skin....he didnt use a clamp like other peircers do he jus marked to dots and slid the gage under my skin from one dot to the other.....did n e one else get it done like that?...........Question does n e one kno how to make the darkness around the holes diminish or go away completely...i neva used alcohol which usuallly causes the darkness...but i had used antibactial soap and bactiene from the time i got it peirced and now um using savlon(detol)..and thats workin well.. to stop if from being irratated.......i dnt wanna have dark skin round the holes of the peircing....