Lip Piercings That Are Infected

Posted in: lip piercing by weddingcometrue | May 28th 2010 | no comments

Lips piercings are are a method of wearing jewelry. Some choose to have their lips perforated for this cause. It is a trend, but a risky one. Others recur to piercing because of their culture, sexual orientation or just because they consider it to be fashionable.


As I was saying the risks are high. One has to pass through a whole month treatment and recovery period, due to inflammations that often appear. As this effect is the most commonly met let’s see what is all about infected lip piercings.

First of all, before perforating your lip or both of them you have to be sure that your state of health, generally speaking, is at a normal level. By this I mean that in case of herpes for example, the procedure of lip piercing must be avoided. All good until the after piercing period. Here the things start to complicate.

The first week before one has to avoid several things. The food must be not solid, only soups, yogurt or millet food. As for drink, one has to avoid hot ones: not tea, no coffee. This is one of the main causes of infected lip piercing, as heat allows the infection to appear; the blood accentuates its rhythm. Also, by eating as usual you force your mouth and because the lips are swollen in the first days inflammation will not be late to appear.



Furthermore, hygiene is also responsible for infected lip piercings. One has to pay closer attention to this. The lips will be washed daily with distilled water, and then you must apply a local cream and take some antibiotics. Most of people tend not to touch that zone as it hurts and it is swollen, but there are some hulls that will appear. The cause is dehydration, due to the fact that one can not drink water as usual. If these hulls are not treated the infection will be severe.

Apart from all these, infection after lips piercing appears because of inadequate conditions of preserving it. In other words, hygiene has again a word to say. In case you need to take off the piercing do not do this more than two hours per day. The hole will cover and the first intention will be to force the ring to fit in again. And so, infection is inclined to make its appearance. Another aspect is that after tacking of the piercing and also before putting it again one must disinfect the local area and the ring too. This way the germs will not pervade.



All things considered, infected lip piercings can be avoided only with one’s willing to cooperate, its determination to cure. In case all these pieces of advice were fallowed and still there is a harsh pain and infection you surely must see a doctor.