Is It Infected Or Not
A body piercing is NOT an open wound, a pimple is!
Once a person gets a body piercing they obsess about it becoming infected. They don't obsess about their pimple getting infected. Why not? It is far more likely to become infected than a body piercing is.
The problem is most people don't understand their body and how the healing process works.
If their pimple is red they don't give it a thought. However, if their body piercing becomes red they go crazy with fear. Why is that?
Because they are accustomed to associating redness around a pimple with healing, but don't understand that redness around a piercing is a natural normal condition of any healing process.
A piercing is less likely to become infected than a cut on your body or blemish on your face. A body piercing seals around body jewelry protecting the incision that was made during the piercing.
The primary way to infect a body piercing is to contaminate the body jewelry in the piercing and move contaminated jewelry through the piercing, therefore introducing bacteria inside the piercing.
Most people contaminate their body jewelry by touching the jewelry with dirty hands.
In a future discussion I will talk about the relationship between redness around the piercing and irritation. Redness due to irritation is not infection. Most people cannot tell the difference. Irritation is the enemy of any body piercing.
Once a person gets a body piercing they obsess about it becoming infected. They don't obsess about their pimple getting infected. Why not? It is far more likely to become infected than a body piercing is.
The problem is most people don't understand their body and how the healing process works.
If their pimple is red they don't give it a thought. However, if their body piercing becomes red they go crazy with fear. Why is that?
Because they are accustomed to associating redness around a pimple with healing, but don't understand that redness around a piercing is a natural normal condition of any healing process.
A piercing is less likely to become infected than a cut on your body or blemish on your face. A body piercing seals around body jewelry protecting the incision that was made during the piercing.
The primary way to infect a body piercing is to contaminate the body jewelry in the piercing and move contaminated jewelry through the piercing, therefore introducing bacteria inside the piercing.
Most people contaminate their body jewelry by touching the jewelry with dirty hands.
In a future discussion I will talk about the relationship between redness around the piercing and irritation. Redness due to irritation is not infection. Most people cannot tell the difference. Irritation is the enemy of any body piercing.
