Risks of piercing?

Many complications can occur with piercings but the risks are not very high. Some common complications are swelling, redness, soreness or irritation which may go away on their own or are easy to treat. The above can be treated with, for example, tee tree oil if it is an irritation bump or coconut oil. The risks of piercing can be divided into three parts.

Infection in your piercing

An infection occurs when you come into contact with harmful bacteria, viruses or micro-organisms. Some of the most common ways that infections occur are: You touch your piercings with unclean hands. You may want to pick off blood crusts, adjust the piercing jewelry. Bacteria that are on your fingers end up in the piercing and because a piercing is a puncture wound, the bacteria enter the body much more easily. More than half of all infections linked to piercing occur in this way. Another way is that bacteria come into contact with other body fluids such as blood, wound fluid. Those fluids that now harbor harmful bacteria can easily transmit unpleasant infections. Lack of personal hygiene can lead to infections, it may be that you do not have the opportunity to keep the piercing clean due to work or your physical activity. Bathing in swimming pools or public solariums used by many people can cause infection. Swimming pools also cause irritation due to the chlorine and bacteria in the water.

What are the signs of an infection?

Well, hardness in the area, severe redness, swelling, or pain and tenderness especially when it feels like it is throbbing and bursting in the area are signs that an infection has occurred. There is discomfort and tenderness when the area is pressed. The area also feels tense and inelastic. Infected piercings have a discharge of a thick yellow or greenish mass, which may be mixed with blood due to bacterial growth in the wound walls. If you suspect that you have an infection, you should contact a medical center or a piercer as soon as possible. The sooner you address the problem, the less chance of serious infection. It is important not to remove the jewelry when the piercing is infected. The jewelry acts as a drain for pus, blood and wound fluid to get out. This is because a piercing is not an open wound but a puncture wound. It is not the jewelry that caused the infection but the bacteria that managed to get into the piercing. The jewelry we use as healing jewelry is titanium which is very hypoallergenic and also implant-grade.

Scarring

Scarring occurs in the area you pierce. Some areas have a greater risk of forming more severe scarring, such as cartilage, areas that have poor blood circulation or areas that are often exposed to wear. To avoid unnecessary scar tissue, you should avoid getting stuck, pulling or tearing the piercing on purpose, this is also called mechanical wear. Some piercings that are more often exposed to mechanical wear are navel piercings or eyebrow piercings. Scarring is not dangerous in itself, but it can be disfiguring and takes a very long time to fade and disappear. The best thing to do is to prevent the problem.

Allergy to piercing

Nickel allergy is something that many people worry about when getting pierced. Nickel can be found in silver, white gold, gold or even steel. It is not the amount of nickel that a metal contains that is dangerous, but how quickly the nickel dissolves from the metal. When the nickel is not firmly bound to the alloy and dissolves in the skin or in the piercing, this is when an allergic person can react to the material. It is possible to use even a piece of jewelry that contains nickel, but the nickel is not easily soluble and hard bound to the alloy. We only use titanium in our piercing studios. Titanium is the best material that you can use as healing jewelry. It is the same material and is of the same quality as the titanium used in Swedish healthcare.