I wouldn't recommend them for at least the first few days, or perhaps a week. Your extraction sites will be sensitive to the extremes of cold, hot, sweet, and spicy. But after several days, if, for example, you feel up to chewing some soft ramen with a spicy sauce, then as long as it doesn't irritate your extraction sites, enjoy!
Ask your dentist he/she will know when it is the right time to eat spicy food.
You are left with a hole in your tongue and your food sometimes gets stuck in the hole.
There is no length requirement for getting your tongue pierced. Anyone can get their tongue pierced with the exception of people that have their own personal and/or medical reasons.
2 weeks (14 days)
Depends but usually no more than a week
wait at least six weeks so as to give your tongue a chance to completely heal
The barbell has to be longer to allow the tongue to swell, failure to allow for room can result in the barbell being pulled into the piercing and requiring surgical intervention to remove it from the tongue.
as long as you look after every individual piercing, of course it's safe
I got my tongue pierced over a week ago and my friend got her's a year before me. She drank on the third night after her piercing, and the swelling on her tongue went down. I also did the same, and swelling also went down. Just be careful, cause when you drink beer that early after piercing it, the tongue will tingle from the carbonation. My tongue ring is almost completely healed now.
Each barbell is scaled to the size of the tongue to be pierced therefore there is no "actual size" barbell for tongues, this is why you need to have the piercing done by a professional body piercer who will scale and measure the tongue and place the correctly sized barbell into the piercing.
It is common for a tongue to be swollen for 3-5 days after getting pierced. If the swelling persists beyond this timeframe or if you experience excessive pain or difficulty swallowing, it is recommended to consult with a healthcare professional.
rinse your mouth out with water and just keep your eye on it, should be fine. You can always call the professional who pierced your tongue if anything should seem odd. chances are, your tongue would be swollen now so, ice and water should take care of you! :)
Typically you should wait at least 30 days before changing the tongue bar that you were pierced with. A shorter surgical steel tongue bar may be put in to replace the original tongue bar after swelling in the tongue goes down.