Piercing Aftercare...How Your Piercing Heals is up to You!

Congratulations! You've just received a body piercing by a trained professional who cleaned and disinfected the piercing, the instruments and jewlery, and used sterile needles. Now it is up to you to take appropriate care of your piercing during the critical healing period. It is most important that a new piercing be CLEANED TWO OR THREE TIMES EACH DAY during the first critical week to one month.Use appropriate cleanser suggested below for best results on your specific piercing. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TOUCH OR MOVE THE JEWELRY until you have cleaned your hands thoroughly, AND the entrance holes to the piercing. The purpose of cleaning the pierced area BEFORE attempting to move jewlery is to remove all matter (mostly lymph and other dried body fluids) that collect on the jewelry and the piercing during the healing period. Infection or irritation of a new piercing generally occurs because crusty matter was forced into the piercing. Body fluids are sticky and attract airborne or other bacteria that can infect your new piercing. After cleaning, blot piercing and jewelry dry with clean tissue and apply a small dab of STERILE LUBRICANT (ointments like Neosporin, Bacitracin, Triple Antibiotic, etc.) to jewelry at exit holes. This will ease healing and your body's adjustment to jewelry during the first days of healing. CAUTION: ointments DO NOT clean or disinfect a piercing! They are only a safe lubricant and NOT a substitute for cleaning with Bactine, antibacterial or castile soap. TO SPEED HEALING, discontinue ointment after a week; it will slow the healing process. After the initial adjustment period, piercings heal faster when dry and clean. Also, some piecings find that daily use of zinc supplement (50mg.tablet) speeds healing or the application of vitamin E directly on the piercing after it has been cleaned.

Oral contact with a new piercing, or handling with unclean hands, can cause infection and should be avoided. While genital piercings do not prohibit sex during the healing process, in the interests of good hygiene, it is a good idea ot use a rubber or other barrier to minimize infection. Also a new piercing should not be subjected to heavy abuse during the healing process. If a local infection should occur (indicated by redness, swelling, itching, pus), try this IMMEDIATE FIRST AID: thoroughly work in a generous quantity of BETADINE TOPICAL ANTICEPTIC solution (not skin cleanser) If the solution stings, you've reached the minor local infection. If the condition persists with this continued treatment, contact your piercing professional or local doctor.

DO NOT use alcohol OR peroxide, or associated products!! They can severely dry and burn a piercing, as well as kill the GOOD GERMS! The good germs you need, they kill the bad germs. By overcleaning, you may be causing more harm than good! DO NOT touch your piercing with unwashed hands!!

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Tattoo Aftercare...How Your Tattoo Heals is up to You!

Congratulations! You've just received a Tattoo by Flats Tattooing! We will give you instructions on how to take care of it. We will evan bandage you up, and give you a card with written instructions! We kindly ask that you follow these instructions. We tell you for a certain reason! DO NOT follow the advice of friends, neighbord, boyfriends or girlfriends...if you have questions..CALL US! There is never a dumb question! If you do not follow our instructions, then it is up to YOU to pay to have the tattoo fixed!! Our Minimum is 40 Dollars!!! Yes, even for a touchup.

We will bandage you up, DO NOT let people peek at it! Just leave it alone. You have whole lifetime to show people. If you remove the bandage or covering, you are not following instructions! Here is the instructions in a nutshell....

Ok, reasons for all this stuff. If you unbandage it early, you will allow dirt and crap to get into it, it may also bleed and become messy. Please allow for the healing process to start! Then with the ointments....NO Vasaline! The petroliuim can damage a tattoo! As far aas Bacitracin and Neosporin, they are also petrolium based. Be careful! The majority of these products contain petroleum or lanolin which when applied to a new tattoo can clog skin pores and actually delay your body's healing process. A large number of people have allergic reactions to these products and application to a new tattoo can cause skin reactions leading to loss of ink and permanent damage to your tattoo. Ointments also tend to cause an ointment rash with many people. If you find your tattoo getting red, itchy, even rash like, breaking out, the immediateley discontinue ointment, wash your tattoo and just use lotion! The ointment rash will go right away.

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