Yes. And this may be a very serious type of infection. A trip to urgent care is in order.
Signs of infection include leakage of pus from the blisters or excessive redness, warmth, tenderness, or swelling around the blisters.
It does that when it's infected
Signs of a burn are localized redness, swelling, and pain. A severe burn will also blister.
Worsening redness, swelling, tenderness, green or yellow pus discharge.
Its not very likely. You'll probably see redness and dark discharge first but swelling isn't that far behind. If you think its infected, either go see a doctor or have your piercer check it out.
Allergies and infections are two entirely different things. An allergy would cause redness, irritation, itching and swelling. An infection is caused by bacteria and would cause swelling, redness, heat and pus.
redness, swelling, pain, heat and bleeding
Signs of an infection:Sore to the touch.Excessive redness around the jewellery.Distention or swelling around the piercing.Painful when moving the jewellery.Discharge of green bloody puss during movement of jewellery.If these symptoms are there then the answer could be," Yes, you have an infected piercing".
Redness and swelling.
An infection can cause one or all of those symptoms: redness, swelling, odor, and drainage.
They are known as the 4 OR's--Rubor, redness; Tumor, swelling; Calor, heat and Dolor, pain.
Signs of an infection:Sore to the touch.Excessive redness around the jewellery.Distention or swelling around the piercing.Painful when moving the jewellery.Discharge of green bloody puss during movement of jewellery.If these symptoms are there then the answer could be," Yes, you have an infected piercing".