You work out a lot and you want to get your navel pierced will it get infected?

Answer 1

The first thing to consider is where your belly button is located on your belly. It seems silly, but the hardest navel piercings to heal and most likely to become infected are those where your belly button falls right in the middle of your natural waist line when you bend over or sit down. Sit down, and look at your belly button. If your natural crease is on top of or obscures your navel, this makes it more likely that the piercing will have a very difficult time healing. Those located just slightly further down are not subject to the same jarring movements and are much less likely to become irritateed. Also, certain clothing choices will also help to keep your piercing happy. Avoid pant lines that sit right at your navel. Wear pants or skirts, etc. that sit about an inch below your piercing. There is nothing worse than to catch a new piercing on something, and buttons and zippers are no exception. Avoid tight, non-natural fabrics during the healing phase. Bike shorts, spandex, anything that will keep the piercing from breathing or allow sweat to settle onto the piercing is a bad thing. If you work out frequently, you need to be hyper-vigilant about aftercare. Make sure you shower as soon as you can after working out, or at least take the time to thoroughly wash out your navel with natural soap, if possible. No perfumes, etc. Also, at a minimum, soak salt the piercing once a day. You mix sea salt (NOT Epsom salt and not table salt) with warm water until its saltiness closely matches the saltiness of your tears. Put in a shot glass, small cup, or the little plastic cup that comes on the top of "the pink stuff". Lean your piercing over the cup and then lay down (with a towel) for about 10 minutes. The salt is a natural cleanser and will dramatically reduce how long the percing takes to heal. So, as long as you're smart about it, piercing your navel if you work out frequently isn't bad or doen't make it more likely to get infected or reject. Just be careful with it and don't get lazy about aftercare if things look good. Lazy aftercare = hot, irritated, slowly-rejecting-itself funky piercings, and that's not sexy. The first thing to consider is where your belly button is located on your belly. It seems silly, but the hardest navel piercings to heal and most likely to become infected are those where your belly button falls right in the middle of your natural waist line when you bend over or sit down. Sit down, and look at your belly button. If your natural crease is on top of or obscures your navel, this makes it more likely that the piercing will have a very difficult time healing. Those located just slightly further down are not subject to the same jarring movements and are much less likely to become irritateed. Also, certain clothing choices will also help to keep your piercing happy. Avoid pant lines that sit right at your navel. Wear pants or skirts, etc. that sit about an inch below your piercing. There is nothing worse than to catch a new piercing on something, and buttons and zippers are no exception. Avoid tight, non-natural fabrics during the healing phase. Bike shorts, spandex, anything that will keep the piercing from breathing or allow sweat to settle onto the piercing is a bad thing. If you work out frequently, you need to be hyper-vigilant about aftercare. Make sure you shower as soon as you can after working out, or at least take the time to thoroughly wash out your navel with natural soap, if possible. No perfumes, etc. Also, at a minimum, soak salt the piercing once a day. You mix sea salt (NOT Epsom salt and not table salt) with warm water until its saltiness closely matches the saltiness of your tears. Put in a shot glass, small cup, or the little plastic cup that comes on the top of "the pink stuff". Lean your piercing over the cup and then lay down (with a towel) for about 10 minutes. The salt is a natural cleanser and will dramatically reduce how long the percing takes to heal. So, as long as you're smart about it, piercing your navel if you work out frequently isn't bad or doen't make it more likely to get infected or reject. Just be careful with it and don't get lazy about aftercare if things look good. Lazy aftercare = hot, irritated, slowly-rejecting-itself funky piercings, and that's not sexy.