First, wash your hands with soap and water and dry with clean paper towels. No cloth towels!
Soak area with sterile saline solution or a liquid anti-microbial cleanser 2-3 times daily. It may be easier to apply using saturated sterile gauze.
Dry the piercing area with sterile gauze. Do not use cloth towels!
You may shower daily, use soap and rinse thoroughly.
During healing one might experience some bleeding, localized swelling, tenderness, bruising, discoloration, itching, and secretion of a whitish-yellow fluid (not pus) that will form some crust around the jewelry as the piercing heals.
A piercing heals from the outside inward and thus may appear healed before healing is complete. Be patient!
Maintain clean, comfortable bedding and clothing.
Avoid the Following:
Undue trauma or playing with the piercing
The use of alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, Betadine, Hibiclens or ointments,
Over-cleaning, Oral contact, rough play, contact with other people’s body fluids,
Stress, recreational drug use, excessive caffeine, nicotine and alcohol,
Submerging the piercing in bodies of water such as lakes, pools, hot tubs, Jacuzzis, marine water, etc.,
All beauty and personal care products such as cosmetics, lotions, sprays, etc., on or around the piercing.
Do not pick at the crusted matter at the piercing site, this is dried lymph fluid secreted by your body to cleanse the piercing. (The crusting should come off during your routine soaking & cleansing period only.)