Aftercare for a New Piercing

If you stick to proper aftercare and cleaning, you should have minimal problems with just about any piercing.

The proper aftercare for navel piercing is as follows:

• After you get the piercing, make sure that you have a pack of miniature Dixie cups and saline solution: not "contact cleaner," but "saline solution" sold at a pharmacy. Or use a dilute solution of sea salt (1 teaspoon sea salt to 5 ounces water).
• Clean the navel piercing at least two to three times a day.
• Wash your hands first.
• Make sure to use a NEW, unused Dixie cup each day, using just enough saline to fully submerge the piercing.
• Lay on a flat surface with the cup turned upside down on your belly, in order to fully submerge the navel, allowing the saline to work its way through the piercing.
• Afterwards, you can dip a Q-Tip into the saline solution and gently go around both holes of the piercing to remove any excess crust or dried blood or fluids.

There is NO other reason to touch the new piercing.

Continue the process for at least a month to make sure things are fine.

You may experience crust or dried fluid for some time. Whenever this happens, use the Q-Tip to remove the dried fluid