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I want help with my belly piercing its infected ?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Navel piercing: New piercings are usually cleaned twice a day. Do not twist jewelry / post. Saturate gauze w saline solution (pinch of sea salt in warm water), place on piercing & allow it to gently drip into the piercing. Or you can buy pressurized saline solution at a drug store. An alternate way to clean navel piercings: rapidly turn over a cup of warm saline on to the piercing. This should create a small

Answered 6/21/2014

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Infected foreign bod: You should see a doctor ASAP. These can become very very severe very quickly.

Answered 9/29/2016

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