Infections, side effects and healing issues are all points you need to discuss with your professional body piercer BEFORE you get the piercing done. You also need to discuss aftercare for the piercing, this should be followed up with written aftercare instructions for your piercing. No professional body piercer will force you to purchase aftercare products, this is a purchase that is up to you and they can only recommend specific products but they can force you to buy what they have.
Listen to what you are told and follow the aftercare to the letter and remember if you are having issues with bumps and lumps or discharge go back to the shop that did the piercing and talk to the piercer. They must help you resolve any healing issues you may be having. Don't solicit advice from anyone who is not a professional body piercer, just because one thing worked for someone else doesn't mean it will work for you. Healing issues need to be looked at first hand so the problem can be recognised and resolved, the internet is just a guessing game.
Yes you still can.
A belly-button piercing is usually still healing after 3 weeks, although the swelling and redness should have gone down and should be almost completely gone! If the area still looks irritated/puffy, or red then it's still healing. I hope this helped!(:
You can still get a belly button piercing despite what people think about it.
That depends. If you lost the piercing by somehow ripping it out and the tissue is still scarred than no, but as long as the navel is not damaged it should be fine. Try talking to someone at your local tattoo or piercing parlor, they should know.
You need to have a bar or ring in the piercing else it will heal up because a piercing is just like a wound. if theres a bar or ring there then it will heal but around the ring or bar, so you still have the piercing. You don't need a ring, you can have a belly button bar. x
why not aslong as you have someone over 18 to sign for you!
It will be red when you take it out. But, if it just slides right out it is done.
Even though it is completely healed you still should clean it. You don't have to as much as when you first got it but it still can get infected and you should just clean it in the shower and do soaks every once in a while.
At three months the piercing should be healed, at least mostly. That means that swimming in chlorine will not affect it. Still steer clear of lakes and streams.
You have to take it out whilst doing the sport
not really. the belly button is the end of a cord that transfers nutrients to the baby while it is still in the womb. so if a baby didn't have a belly button, it would probably be dead. however, you can have a deformed belly button, depeding on how it was cut. what do you think ask every one if they have a belly button and you got your answer.
If, after about two months the piercing is still very painful, red and inflamed, and the bar of the piercing seems closer to the surface it could be being rejected by your body. You should go back and see your piercer immediately and seek their professional advice!