HOW TO GET RID OF PIERCING BUMPS ON YOUR CARTILAGE AND NOSE PIERCINGS
This won’t be a blog post telling you to get rid of the those ugly Piercing Bumps by using Tea Tree Oil but a post helping you figure out exactly what’s irritating your piercing.
These piercing bumps or “irritation bumps” as some people like to call them are actually your body’s way telling you your piercing is irritated. Cartilage Bumps and Nose Piercing Bumps are more common than you think.
How you may ask?.. that’s what we’ll be talking about today!
These bumps are not to be confused with Keloids, as mentioned in my previous post on Tea Tree Oil, Keloids are scar tissue and for some people, it’s their body’s natural way of healing. They are permanent unless removed from a dermatologist. The internet seems to confuse the two, piercing bumps and keloids, but reality is that not every bump equals a keloid.
Piercing Bumps occur because your piercing is irritated and the only way to make it go away is to figure out why your piercing is irritated. No magic essential oil is going to make it go away, it’s going to keep coming back until you find the root cause. These are the four common causes for your piercing bump:
Poor Quality Jewelry
Trauma
Poor Aftercare
Poor Angle
Let’s go into each one further…
Poor Quality Jewelry.
The BEST metal to be pierced with would be Titanium. Titanium is often what doctors use during surgery/bone replacements. If you were pierced with a lower grade metal, it could be irritating your piercing.
In my experience, I was pierced with surgical steel for my nose and belly button. Both of which developed these “irritation bumps.” I ended up switching my nose piercing a 14k gold bone nose ring and doing one other thing we’ll talk about soon.
With metals, you don’t know what’s going to work for your body until you try it. It’s trial and error. If you are highly sensitive, titanium is the best option.
Trauma.
Of course we never have intentions of snagging our piercings but hey, it happens to the best of us. Whether it’s snagging it our shirt as we’re changing, a little brother that smacks you in the ear, or getting it stuck to your pillow case.. Even constantly touching it or putting the phone up to your ear constantly can do this. If you haven’t noticed it’s best to just stay in a bubble after you get your piercing.. jk (although that is what it feels like lol)
One thing that seems to be a huge culprit is sleeping on our piercings and if you are like me, I’m a wild sleeper.. I really have no idea what the hell I do when I’m sleeping and I dread getting piercings because of how I know I’m not sleeping on only side the whole night. I wish I would have known about sleeping with an air plane pillow, which would have saved so many annoying nights of sleep because ya girl appreciates her beauty sleep. Who feels me?
Aftercare.
In 2019, most professional piercers are recommending to only use something called Sterile Saline Would Spray for your piercings. Personally, I prefer used H2Ocean. Once I switched my nose piercing to gold and started using H2Ocean, my piercing bump went away. Like Sterile Saline Would Spray, H2Ocean is sterile and comes in a can for easy and convenient use.
Things NOT to use are: Tea Tree Oil, A&D Ointment, Petroleum Jelly, Alcohol, Peroxide, and Q-Tips. Did you know the little fibers from Q-Tips can get stuck in your piercing, in turn cause these Piercing Bumps. I actually didn’t know this about Q-Tips until recently, and looking back this could have been another reason my nose and cartilages got piercing bumps.
Poor Angle
If you feel as though you have high quality jewelry, no trauma, and using the correct aftercare but STILL have a piercing bump.. your piercing could have been pierced at a poor angle. The only way to determine this is by getting a professionals opinion. If you don’t feel comfortable going back to your original piercer, I would recommend having someone from the Association of Professional Piercers take a look. You can find one near you by visiting safepiercings.org.
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