Am I treating my lip ring the right way?

I’ve pierced my lip about 5 different times after having lost a few rings, now I have two lips piercing and I did them on my own. I sterilized the needle and lip ring first then used store bought piercing cleaner on it and it turned out perfect. I just did my girlfriend’s and I’m sure hers will be fine too.

Ok first of all you need to keep your piercing in no matter what. If you take your piercing out for cleaning or due to an infection you can either cause the hole to close and/or create an absess which is an even bigger problem than an infection or swelling. When I got mine done it was red around the outside and had a slight infection regardless of how well I took care of it, some people are just prone to infection and have a slower healing time. I suggest crest pro health mouthwash or listerine for the inside of your mouth and sea salt soaks and bactine on the outside. Bactine and mouthwash should be taken with you everywhere for the first two weeks because you are likely to chew gum, drink soda, or eat out and need to make sure to rinse your mouth and clean the outside of the piercing right afterwards. If you are not putting water in your mouth make sure to clean!!! As far as your self-piercing goes, it was not a smart move. I know it can be hard to wait sometimes for something you really want, but when it comes to something so serious as infection and putting a whole in your FACE, I would just wait to shell out the 35 bucks.

When my son got his lip done, he had a pro do it, not a freind, he was told to use listerine on the inside of it and Bactine on the outside. It does sound like you may have an infection starting though. I am not an alarmist but if it was me or one of my kids I would strongly suggest you take it out and let it heal then go have it professionally done.

my friend always does this stuff to her ear. she pierced her lip a couple days ago with her friend joe..and it got infected. her mom took her to a professional..he said to get some of the disenfectent normally for you ears after you get it pierced..and take the lip ring out when you get up and before you go to sleep and put some in a small cup. put the lip ring in it and let is sit there for about 5 minutes. and take a q-tip and dip it in the disenfectent and put it on the outside of your mouth and the inside of your mouth.

the swellin should go down after a couple days too. so dont flip out if it doesnt. my friend joe pierced his tounge and it swelled..but went down little by little every day. it was bakk to normal in about 1 week.

hopefully this will help..=] =]