Care for Belly Button Piercings- Navel Piercing Tips and Aftercare
By Whitney05
Belly Button Piercing
Navel piercings, more commonly referred to as belly button piercings, are a common body piercing among woman and some men. It is a semi-quickly healing piercing with usually little complications. They tend to heal like an ear piercing without little rejection and migration, but at the same time, you may encounter the healing process as more like a surface piercing with the rejection and migration risks.
The odds of successfully healing a belly button piercing can be hindered, but for the most part if you follow proper aftercare and healing procedures, you can successfully heal the piercing, unless your body just refuses, which is always a possibility.
Healing a belly button piercing can be complicated and irritated by clothing and friction. Because it's around the waistline, you have to take into account pants, belts, shirts, etc. You must, also, consider the position of your belly button in regards to where you bend at your waist.
Types of Navel Piercings
The belly button can be pierced at different angles and sides, but generally the more common navel piercings include:
- Upper Rim- or standard belly button piercing, which is pierced at the top of the navel ring.
- Lower Rim- or bottom belly button piercing, which is pierced at bottom end of the navel ring.
- Sides- anywhere in-between the upper and lower navel ring- typically the horizontal left or right sides.
Some people have been known to get their actual navel (outtie) pierced, which can be referred to as the true navel piercing, however, in my opinion, it should never be done due to the numerous problems that can present themselves from healing, misplacement, and moved. It's not safe. Don't do it.
Some people get surface piercings around the navel to accentuate a standard navel piercing. This is not technically a belly button piercing.
Healing Belly Button Piercings
Healing any piercing can be as easy or hard as you make it. 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).
- Clean
the navel piericng at least 2 to 3 times a day. 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 and have the cup turned upside down in order to fully submerge the piercing, 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 piering to remove any excess crust, died blood/ fluids, etc.
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 fluids for an undetermined amount of time. Whenever this happens use the Q-Tip to remove the dried fluid.
Make sure when cleaning piercings to have clean hands before touching anything.
DO's With a New Piercing
- Wear lose fitting clothing that allows the piercing to breath- cotton works best.
- Make sure your hands are clean
- Do use a new Dixie cup and Q-Tip each time you clean
- Ask your piercer if you have any problems or questions
Aftercare Don'ts
DON'Ts With a New Piercing
- Do not use any type of ointment on the piercing- to include A&D, bacitracin, Neosporin, bactine- because it can smother a piercing.
- Do not use hand sanitizer, Dial soap, or peroxide as they are all too harsh for a piercing and can cause irritation.
- Do not wear tight fitting clothing that restricts the breathing of the piercing.
- Do not touch your piercing for any reason other than to clean it.
- Do
not change the jewelry until you are absolutly healed. The best thing
to do is to return the piercer to make sure it's ok to change it
and/or to change it for you. It's, also, goo to buy the new jewelry
from your piercer, so that you know you are getting high quality jewelry.
- Do not wear heavy barbells or barbells with danglies (things that hang) for extended periods of times. Danglies can catch on belts, pants, shirts, etc. which will irritate the piercing. Heavy jewelry will pull on the piercing because of the weight, which will again, irritate it. If you want to wear something gaudy and "bling blingin'" to "da club" that's fine, as long as you put a normal, light-weight piece of jewelry when you get home.
A few other don'ts to consider:
- Don't go into a pool, hot tub, ocean, lake, or any other body of water. It is unsanitary and having a healing piercing submerged in unclean water is bound to cause you irritation.
- Don't use a tanning bed with a healing piercing.
Navel Piercing Tips and Info
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Comments
i had mine for a month and im scared that it will get infected puss comes out and its nasty. well i use soap, sea salt and bactine. Fist i wash it with antibacterial soap and i clean it then i put the sea salt water for five minutes and then i put bactine is this the right thing to do?
I have had my belly pierced for 3 years now. When I first got it done I was told to clean it with water everyday using a que-tip. While healing I used a cleaning solution that they sold that was H20 underwater something... had salt in it and something else. They said that I could also take lukewarm water and sea salt... and only sea salt nothing else... to keep it from getting infected. I haven't had any problems just make sure even after its healed to keep cleaning it because it is easily infected
Ok... So maybe things work different there... But I got my belly pierced two days ago (I'm 13) and the piercer didn't use a needle- he used a cathitur. I've just been using anti-bacterial soap, and got told NOT to use any salt or anything with fibres that could get into my ring. Also- I got pierced with a barbell (banana Bar) and I've had no problems. It hasn't been swollen or red the whole time. Its great. So, any anti-bacterial soap works brilliant. And salt causes it to become very tender. Hope this works:)
I just got my belly button pierced like 2 hours ago & it still hurts a little bit. The piercer said to use Dial soap on it but I've been looking on the web & almost ALL of them say not to use Dial soap so what should I use ? Should I use sea salt because my cousin used sea salt & her healed just fine . I'm 13 & a big baby & it really didn't hurt at all I mean it's just like someone pinching your belly button as hard as they can for like 10 seconds ! I'm just afraid that it'll get infected or something . The piercer said not to change it from the hoop to a banana bar until 6 months , but all my friends said that their piecer said to wait 6 weeks. How long should I wait ?
I got my piercing two days ago and so far so good. Looks great.
I stocked up on Dixie cups, but they can´t they the pressure. They just get soggy and crumple and I end up with salt water all over. Are there any special type of cups one needs to get?
I pierced my belly.. somehow I feel its not in the centre. Little bit on my right... Is it okay? Or should I re pierce it and when? It's the 5thday today. Please help.
Thank you.
I got my belly button pierced yesterday and it hurts bending back and forth.
i just g0t mine 4 days ag0 and i been using bactine and i got a dangly ring so im scared that it is going to get infected today i noticed that it is like redish around n it hurts when i bend over or try to move it up and down is this normal?
I had my top navel done about 3 years ago, nearly fainted when it was pierced and it took about 8 months to fully heal. Just had my bottom one done aswell (didnt hurt half as much!) are there big chances of it rejecting because of the two bars rubbing together? Thanks :)
I pierced my belly button myself two days ago. During this time I have sprayed a saline solution on it every few hours and it seems to be doing fine. The only thing is I would like to go swimming in our local chlorine pool. Is it okay to go Swimming but straight afterwards shower and then spray the saline solution on?
Until it's fully healed
after how long can i swim after getting a belly button piercing? help please!
I'm turing 16 on sunday.. And tmrw im going to go get my nelly button pierced. I'm scared but at the same time excited! I'm a big baby so hopefully the pain won't hurt that bad for me (:
ok, so i got my belly peirced like 9 weeks ago and i changed it recently since it wasnt going too well. It was so red at both sides and puss kept coming out and hurt everytime i touched it, so i changed it and its soo much better. However, im worried that it will get infected since i changed it too early. will it?
Honestly, it doesn't sound like it's doing well. It shouldn't be red after two week, when pierced properly.
How are you cleaning it?
The chemicals that you used does not properly clean any piece of jewely. What type of bar did you use- straight or curved?
Rings are not ideal for navel piercings. Stick with a curved barbell.
I pierced my belly button myself about 2 weeks ago. I'm 16, and mind you this isn't the first thing I've pierced on my own. I've double pierced my ears, and tried to do a thrid, but did not succede. My piercing is red and swollen, and there is some discharge, but not a lot. Its a little tender. But right now I still have just a bar that I disinfected in (1st) Hydrogen Peroxide for 15 minutes (2nd) Rubbing Alcohol for 10 and (3rd) Saline for another 15. Do you think it will be ok if I take it out and put in a proper ring? Or will that be bad for it?
I just got my belly button pierced today and was wondering about sports juring the healing part is there anything i should try to avoid? Btw my sports are netball and softball.
I want one and I was wondering do they always use the clamps?
I went to get my belly button pierced yesterday, but the guy pierced it up a little too high (the end of the piercing doesnt come out of my belly button) It hurt a little but now it looks like its fine. I don't know what to do about it, if i should take the piercing out and let it heal and then get it re-pierced or just deal with the fact that its above my belly button
Can you use sea salt && water to clean it or would it just be better to get some after care spary at the shop I think its called H2O ocean spary? Idk what is the best way to take care of it?I just got this done yesterday. So I'm like mm. Which way is better.?
I've gotten by belly button pierced for over 5 years now. Also I've been reading about a 12 year old getting it done, DONT DO IT YET! just wait. For everyone it hurts different and for some none at all so there is no point in asking how much will it hurt and will it, it really varies on the person. Make sure you clean it with WARM salt water! not regular salt! do this 2 times a day. Try not wearing tight clothes for a while and go swimming, I'd suggest not doing it summer time.
heey, so i just got mybelly button periced 3 days ago, im currently cleaning it with sea salt which they gave to me at the tatoo place call Planet ink, they were very good and the place was very clean :), my belly button hasn't been red at all just a lil itchy which is apperently a good thing so if you want it done, its pretty good as long as you clean it, so far i've been cleaning it 3 times a day which i'll do for 6 weeks :) either way i was teffified to get it, no im not gonna lie it did hurt but it was more like a sharp pain for like 10seconds and thats all. Hope this helps !!! :)
I Got My Belly Done 5 Days Ago And I Have Had It Done Before I Really Want To Change It Can I?
igot my stomach peirced 2 days ago.
my friends want me to go swimming tomaro and i was wondering if it wud be okay that i went so soon?
Okay, so I just got my navel pierced 12 days ago and it's healing really well. The piercer told me to use bactine unless it made it red so just to be safe I only use it right before I get in the shower then I use dial antibacterial soap (unscented). He also said to take a 50 mg Zinc supplement 3 times a day with meals to help boost your immune system and heal it quicker. I've only pulled it a couple of times which only hurt for like 2 seconds. I really think the Zinc supplement works well. So just something to try :) good luck.
I Got Muhh Belly Button Pierced 5 Week's Agoo && It's NOT Crusty Or ANYTHING! Youu Aree Allowedd Tuee Go Swimminqq , && If Youu Caan Get In Salt Waterr It Help's Itt Heel F A S T ( :
Gooodd Luccckk ! '
Ive had my belly pierced for about 3wks so far. & havent had no complications/difficulties nothing. I got it done in Ny. & my piercer put a ring in it for easier cleaning which make sense (so it can rotate) he said its best to use Dial soap (tha orange non-smelly kind] anti-bacteria soap. Thats wut ive been using. Everynow & then i'll feel like a tingly kinda feeling but its bearable. havent got in a pool, but if i do, i have thoese tegaderm things. To protect it while in tha water. I Hope this helps(=
I just got my belly button pierced like 4 hours ago, it didnt hurt at all. They say the clamps is the worst part but its not. It feels like your taking your finger nails and pinching as hard as you can for 15 seconds. Its better to clean with saltwater or uncented anti bacterial soap. You will have bleeding for a little bit especially if you bend alot but its okay. Itll only sting a little bit when cleaning to. I hope this helps!
many of my friends got their belly buttons peirced, and they all use different things, i use sea slt and bactine, is bactin ok to use? or should i use dial soap, but my mom doesnt know i have my peircing, so i want it to heal as soon as possible.
I was wondering if it would be safe to go swimming in a lake? and if i could what would happen and what should i do about it?
hi im going to get my belly done but im really nervous. My friend abbie is having hers done wednesday and i really want it done and dont want it get infected. Whats best to clean it and how long dose it hurt for when the piercer is piercing it? i am a softy when it comes to injections but last time i had one it was fine but now i really want my belly done help!!!. xx
I'm Going To Get My Belly Button Peirced Tomorrow & I Need to know how often I should clean it!
i got my belly button pierced two years ago at Primal Urge in New Hope, New Jersey. The place looked completely legit and the guy that did it made me get a ring not a bar, and told me to do most the things on the don't list including: use dial soap, use bacitracin, and twist the ring when cleaning. i had it pierced for six months before i realized how infected it was and i had to take it out. im 17 now and my mom finally said i can get it done again. if you're going to get it done, make sure you know the RIGHT way to take care of it :)
For everybody asking just ask your peircer when you get it done nd they'll answere all your questions for you, plain nd simple they know what's right for it
hi,I might get my belly pierced for my 12th birthday.Im not scared about getting it done but is this a bad idea, for my age? I just want it for me,and not anyone eles.
Thanks,Taylor.
so i got my belly button pierced like 4 hours ago. when should i clean it for the 1st time? before i go to bed? also, i have a sea salt spray for it... do i just spray it on and leave it so it makes the dry blood soggy? how do i CLEAN it? just use a q-tip and scrape the dry blood away after i use the sea spra?
Hey I am 13 n I am going to the dells for spring break n I don't know to get my belly done after like wen we live bcux they say Yu can't go swimming well I need an answer idk wat to do n suggestion? IR if I get it this lweek will I be okay if I have spring break next Monday but I am not going to the della until Tuesday
Im getting my belly done soon and I was just wondering wat the best way of sleeping ( on ur back, side etc.) was best for the piercing?
I have had my piercing for 3 wks n wen I clean it it sumtimes hurt a lil but it's not unbearable I can move it n it itches alot is dis part of da healing process???
I usually get keloid scars . I have on my nose and cartilage, will I get one on my navel piercing
Okay so I got my belly button pierced 4 days ago. It says not to go tanning but some says its good for it. So I went today and put a napkin over the piercing. Is that okay? And also I'm a cheerleader and I need to know if its okay to tumble after getting it pierced? How long should I wait before putting a retainer on for cheerleading? Thanks (:
i had my belly pierced yesterday, i went through all the pros and cons coz i've wanted one for ages, however i don't know whether i now regret having it, did anyone else feel this way? i can't bend over or lean forwards e.g i can't put my shoes on because i can't crouch because of this piercing hurting me, does that go away? and if i do decide that i really don't want it in anymore, how long will it take for the hole to close up and will it scar?
I got my belly button pierced with my friend yesterday, mine really hurt and I nearly fainted but she said hers only hurt for a few seconds. After we got it done mine was still hurting unlike hers. Eventually it stopped hurting..until I got home and cleaned it, it was so painful! Mine is still hurting now(day after getting it pierced) is this normal?
I got my belly button pierced on Friday. It did hurt for a mintue but then the pain went away. MY piercer told me to wash it twice a day with Spectra gel (not spectro gel), he also said to move it around only while washing it so the soap can cleanse the piercing, and to do saltwater bath 2 times a week. just a tablespoon of sea salt in a cup of previously boiled water hold it over the piercing for about 5-15 minutes, it is said to speed up the healing process and it also works for when it gets infected.
Also be aware when your body is rejecting the navel piercing. Unfortunately there are just some people who's bodies just can't tolerate a foreign object. This is my 3rd attempt, I got mine re-pierced 4 weeks ago, I clean & care for it appropriately and & its not even trying to heal, so I give.
oh and im in karate will that affect my training
ok so i got my belly button pierced last night and my friend did it and her mom is a pro at piercing stuff but i wanted to know what i have to do. and i usually get infections but im not sure if im gonnna get it on my belly
I got my belly button done about 5 months ago, it sometimes gets crusty and red under the bottom ball, but if you just clean it with care and try using cotton buds they really help getting under the balls and around the bar. I have got the top part of my belly done, and sometimes the ball gets stuck to my skin, but if you clean it about 3/4 times a day it will get better. Mine is almost healed. I sometimes get worried about it getting infected. After about four months I changed the bar, it was pretty easy to change and it never hurt. After that I went swimming a couple of times and it didn't change noting. It just needs time to heal, you need to give it time and it will get better, it's all worth it in the end. Good luck people :) xxx
hey i am 12 and my parents said i could get it done at 14 but i cannot wait i am dreaming about it i am thinking about it all day at school it is taunting me i just cannot wait. so i made a thing of pros and cons and lists of things i will do if they let em get one now but my mom is like not talking to me did she read it does she agree with it i just cannot get it off my mind i need help wat should i do?
Sarah 11 days ago
I had my navel pierced for four months is healing great still crusty but I was told that's normal I find that a new clean shot glass works way better then a dixie cup just make sure to scrub it out after using it each time