Piercing Aftercare
Disclaimer: If you have any problems with your newly pierced piercing or you are unsure about anything in the aftercare please contact Jax on WhatsApp 079 873 1937.
Ear Piercings
Lobes:
Use only non-iodate course Sea Salt with boiled kettle water (distilled water) that you cool down. Ensure you make a fresh cleaning solution for each cleaning session.
Always use paper towel or tissue to dry. Never your bath or face towel.
Use Voltaren muscle ointment as an anti-inflammatory measure. Do NOT apply at the entry or exit of fresh piercing. Rather a bit a way.
Broad spectrum Anti-Bacterial cream Fucidin is advised. Must be the red and white box. Apply this to the bar/ring and work into the newly pierced tunnel in your skin after the salt cleaning session. Please keep doing this for the entirety of the healing process. This will curb infection and promote speedy healing.
Taking an anti-inflammation tablet, such as Ibuprofen, Nurofen, Genpayne, or Mybulin is strongly advised. Keep taking them for the first 3-5 days to assist the body to fight inflammation even if the site is not sore.
Cartilage:
Use non-iodinated course Sea Salt or Himalayan Pink Salt with boiled kettle water that you cool down. 2 Pinches of Himalayan Pink salt with a shot glass of kettle water (Boiled kettle water is Distilled water).
Make a fresh cleaning solution for each cleaning session. Ensure you always use paper towels to dry with. Never use your bath or face towel as it carries bacteria.
Please take anti-inflammation tablets for 7 days 3x per day, such as Ibuprofen, Nurofen, Genpayne, Mybulin or Inza.
Use Voltaren Emulgel topically around the new piercing (ensuring you do not get it into the new piercing tunnel) to assist you with swelling and inflammation. This should be applied every 2 hours.
At any point in the time of your healing do not force your jewellery to move inside the new pierced tunnel.
During the saline cleaning the jewellery will start moving by itself. If you had to force the jewellery to move, you would cause secondary tears inside that newly pierced tunnel and take longer to heal and you would have a greater chance of infection.
Fucidin broad-spectrum antibiotic ointment (white and orange box) or cream (white and Red box) are equally good. Please apply this to the bar/ring and work into the newly pierced tunnel in your skin after the salt cleaning session. Ensure you wipe all excess away. Keeping the piercing site clean and dry is the ultimate way to fast healing.
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Face Body & Nipples Piercings
Use non-iodinated course Sea Salt or Himalayan Pink Salt with boiled kettle water that you cool down. 3 Pinches of Himalayan Pink salt with a shot glass of kettle water (Boiled kettle water is Distilled water).
Make a fresh cleaning solution for each cleaning session. Ensure you always use paper towels to dry with. Never use your bath or face towel as it carries bacteria.
Please take anti-inflammation tablets for the 3 days 3x per day, such as Ibuprofen, Nurofen, Genpayne, Mybulin or Inza.
Voltaren Emulgel to apply topically around the new piercing (ensuring you do not get it into the new piercing tunnel itself) to assist you with swelling and inflammation.
Fucidin broad-spectrum antibiotic ointment (white and orange box) or cream (white and red box) . Please apply this to the bar/ring and work into the newly pierced tunnel in your skin after the saline cleaning session. Ensure you wipe all excess away. This will curb infection and promote speedy healing.
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Oral Piercings
Use only non-iodinated coarse Sea Salt or Himalayan Pink salt with boiled kettle water that you cool down.
To make your own saline solution:
Fill a 500ml bottle with 4 teaspoons of Himalayan Pink Salt and cooled-down kettle water (this is distilled water) and keep it with you the whole time.
Rinse after you put anything into your mouth such as food, drinks, brushing your teeth, mouthwash, cigarettes, and kissing. Rinse regardless for every 1 – 2 hours, even if nothing was in your mouth.
Please take anti-inflammation tablets for the first 4 days 3x per day to keep the swelling down, such as Ibuprofen, Nurofen, Genpayne, Mybulin or Inza. We will need to change the bar to a shorter one as soon as the one fitted now feels too long and is sticking out far above the tongue.
It is advised to get a new toothbrush. Also, remember that mouthwash contains alcohol which will delay the healing. Therefore, it is advised that you rinse with saline solution after mouthwash.
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Micro-Dermal Surface Anchor Implants
Keep a newly fitted plaster over your newly fitted Micro-Dermal Surface Anchor Implants for 10 days. This is to ensure that the jewellery sits STILL in its newly fitted place, allowing the tissue to grow through the anchor.
Any movement, bumps, or hooks will move the anchor out of the placement where your piercer placed it and it might change the angle at which the Micro-Dermal Surface Anchor sits.
No cleaning under the disc is required or wanted during the first 10 days after fitting it.
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Genital Piercings
Male
Make your own saline solution with Boiled kettle water in a 250ml cup with two teaspoons of Himalayan Pink Salt. Soak if possible else clean very well while moving the jewellery with the saline solution 2 times a day.
For cleaning twice a day the saline solution needs to be 550ml and 1 teaspoon of Himalayan Pink Salt.
Please ensure you clean very well with saline solution underneath the foreskin if possible. Placing non iodate salt in a small amount of bath water and soaking in it is also advised.
For your newly pierced Prince Albert Piercing please ensure that you drink a lot of clean water as every time you urinate you are rinsing the pierced tunnel. In the case of other male genital piercings, still follow the same cleaning method.
If you have any problems that you might experience be sure to contact your piercer immediately.
Female
Make your own Saline Solution with Himalayan Pink Salt and cooled down kettle water. 3 Pinches of salt to a shot glass of water.
Do morning and night time cleaning with saline solution for 4 days.
DO NOT use soaps or perfumes for at least 3 weeks after piercing. And no mouth for 3 full weeks on the piercing.
Placing non iodate salt in your bath water to soak the piercing during bathing is very well advised.
If you experience any problems please contact your piercer immediately.
Please refrain from using intimate perfumes or special creams during the healing period.
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