Industrial piercing cleaning?

Question

So I've had my industrial for about five months and it's still crusting - sometimes its a little, sometimes a lot, and theres still keloids on it. I've been cleaning it with salt water and I've been doing my best to not hit it when i change clothes or shower, but it still doesn't look like it's going to be fully healed anytime soon. I was wondering if I should try a saline spray or tea tree oil or maybe Neosporin to try and alleviate the appearance. Any help would be great.

Brittany · Accepted Answer

Well industrial piercings do take 9-12 months to heal so the fact that you're experiencing crust is definitely normal.

If you're using regular salt that is a major problem, it's harmful to your piercing. You need to be doing saline soaks twice a day for 5-10 minutes each soak with a sterile gauze pad soaked in a sterile saline spray with no additives. An exact solution of 1/4th of a teaspoon of non-iodized sea salt to 8oz of hot water is a fine alternative but really the sterile saline is going to be easier and better.

Tea tree oil and neosporin should never ever touch a healing piercing. Sterile saline from a pharmacy or the sea salt solution to make sterile saline from home, nothing else.

JaeCK · Answer

Oh god, don't use salty water haha, I used this solution when I got mine done, I don't know the name of it but I think it was a special saline solution (go to your drug store and ask for those solutions to clean crust after nose jobs, etc) After 4-5 months mine did crust from time to time, I would just use alcohol and it would take some time to heal, also don't touch it at all, that can cause an infection