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Piercing in summer, what you need to know!

It’s the time of barbecues, seaside deckchairs and swimming. Do you want a new piercing, and you want to know if this is possible? This article is for you ☀️

Here is all the information for a piercing in summer in all serenity.

Piercing and healing duration:

THE piercing is a wound, and like any wound there is a Risk of infection 🩹. However, the healing duration of piercings, Especially cartilage, is sometimes long and an infection could occur throughout this time. Thus, if we follow this logic, the bathing should be prohibited for 3 to 12 months, which is impossible. To avoid this we will take the time to explain to you why swimming is not prohibited and what are the precautions To be respected in order to have a perfectly neat ear 🩱.

Swimming and piercing:

Water is not none case one issue when healing a wound, it's actually the bacteria present there that can create complications for your piercing 🦠. It is for that, that it is not forbidden to wet your piercing during the shower, and also that we recommend you rinse your piercing in physiological serum. However theimmersion extended is not recommended, because exposure to the germ is longer and therefore more important.

Sea, swimming pool, lake, hammam, sauna:

Let's go further and try to understand why some places are authorized by following some precautions and others are at banish ⛔.

There sea is a large place, and even if the bathers are numerous, the amount of water is large enough for the number of microorganisms stay weak 🌊. In addition, the quality of seawater is controlled At least once a month to guarantee the safety of users. You can find this information via this site.

Concerning the pool, this is common sense. We not recommended the pool municipal Where the quantity of microorganisms is important despite chlorine treatments. Out of it family swimming pool is totally possible.

Regarding, lakes, hammam and sauna, these places are strongly not recommended. The lakes are often stagnant waters and the amount of bacteria is high.

Regarding hammams and sauna, this is the temperature which skyrockets the number of germs that particularly like hot and humid places 🌡️.

What precautions for authorized places?

You will understand, this summer You can bathe at the pool or at the sea, avoiding prolonged immersion in water, which is relatively easy with an ears piercing 😅.

For avoid at most that a bacterium come and nest at the place where you don't want to, plan to put petroleum jelly on the drilling area just before swimming to create a barrier in the water 🧴.

Swimming out dry your ear and your piercing with a clean fabric (or a compress preferably) and rinse abundantly physiological serum 💧 (You will see these small pipettes are very easy to transport)!

In conclusion, if you want to do Unclog summer is quite possible, without even banning swimming during the summer period. Just respect a few precautions in order to prevent an infection with a lodge in your piercing.

The team Nebula Hope to have answered all the questions you ask yourself and wish you a hot and sunny summer ☀️!

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