Penis piercings
* Healing Time : two to six months.
* don’t touch your piercing, or let others touch it although it is healing.
* Clean your healing piercing only once per day, with antibacterial soap.
* Never use alcohol swabs, Betadine or hydrogen peroxide to wash your piercing.
* Ideally soak your piercing in saline solution daily.
* Never use alcohol swabs or Betadine to scrub your piercing.
* Take care when swimming, avoid spas.
* Agony , rosiness and strange discharge may be because of infection. Talk to your piercer or a surgeon if you develop any of these symptoms.
* Wear loose clothing.
* Take vitamin C and zinc to maximize your healing.
* Wait until your piercing is healed before changing jewellery yourself. Care Routine.
* don’t touch your piercing unless you are cleaning it. Unwashed hands carry bacteria and your piercing is a point where these bacteria can penetrate below your skin and cause an infection.
* While healing, your piercing must be cleaned once daily - whilst showering is ideal. You’ll need to use an antibacterial soap that contains either chloroxylenol / PCMX ( e.g. Provon ) or triclosan ( e.g. Cusson’s Carex ). Otherwise find a gentle soap with less than 0.25% triclosan ( i.e. 2.5 mg / mL ).
The step by step process is :
1. Scrub your hands with antibacterial soap.
2. Wet the piercing with plain water.
3. Put some drops of antibacterial soap on the piercing and work them into a lather with a cotton bud.
4. Attempt to loosen any crusted discharge and float it off the jewellery and your skin with the cotton bud.
5. Leave the antibacterial soap on the piercing for 2 mins while revolving the jewellery forwards and backwards, permitting the disinfectant to penetrate the piercing.
6. Wash with water and air dry totally.
* Also of proved efficacy is soaking the penis in saline solution for ten - fifteen mins every day. Put 50mls of Saline solution in a little paper cup ( ideally contact lens sterile saline solution, or otherwise a dash of salt in a drink of cooled boiled water ).
Later, dry completely with a clean tissue or cotton bud.
Piercing Options and Jewellery Selections .
* Ampallang.
1. Also called a quotpalang” piercing.
2. This piercing passes horizontally thru the glans of the knob. It may or may not span the urethra. It is feasible to have more than one ampallang piercing concurrently.
3. Healing time four - six months
4. Appropriate Jewellery Types : Straight barbells, at first of 14g and then enlarging in thickness as required.
* Apradavya.
1.This piercing passes vertically thru the glans of the penis, typically in the midline traversing the urethra.
2. Healing time four - six months.
3. Appropriate Jewellery Types : Straight barbells, at first of 14g and then skyrocketing thick as wanted.
* Dydoe.
1. This piercing, which is typically done in pairs or sets, passes thru the coronal ridge of the glans john thomas along the long axis of the dick.
2. Dydoe piercings are susceptible to migration and eventual loss of the piercing.
3. Healing time two - four months.
4. Appropriate Jewellery Types : Curved bar bells of 14g thickness. The length must be measured for the individual.
* Prince Albert.
1.Believed to be named after Prince Albert, man of Queen Victoria, this piercing passes thru the center of the penis, enters the wall of the urethra, passes downward thru the head of the penis and leaves just behind the head at the frenulum.
2. Healing time two - four months.
3. Acceptable Jewellery Types : Rings, Circular bar bells, At first 14g jewellery is employed, but the general public find 12g is the minimum cushty thickness, and some folk will migrate up so far as 00 jewellery.
* Reverse Prince Albert.
1.This piercing passes thru the center of the dick, enters the wall of the urethra, passes upward thru the head of the penis and leaves just behind the head on the higher surface.
2.Healing time two - four months.
3.Appropriate Jewellery Types : Curved bar bells, At first 14g jewellery is employed, but most folks find 12g is the minimum comfortable thickness.
* Appropriate Materials Surgical chrome steel, eighteen carat gold, titanium, niobium. Don’t use nine carat gold, silver ( which can stain the tissues permanently ), or gold plated jewellery in new piercings. In a healing piercing the gold plating will wear off the jewellery before the piercing is healed.
Other Issues.
* Bacterial Contagions . Diseases are surprising in most <b>genital piercing</b>s.
Symptoms may include increased agony, increased rosiness and a rise in the amount and thickness of the discharge. The infected discharge is mostly thick and yellow, green or gray and may have a bizarre odour. Talk to your surgeon or piercer and don’t remove the jewellery till you get advice.
* Bleeding.
It is usual in glans knob piercings to have continued bleeding in the 1st twenty-four hours, and with erections for the 1st week or so.
* Cleaning Agents. Never use alcohol swabs, Betadine, hydrogen peroxide, methylated spirit, or tea tree oil to scrub your piercing. These do kill bacteria but they also destroy your healing flesh. Dead flesh then becomes simply infected.
* Sexual Activity. While your piercing is healing you must wear a rubber during sexual activity. This can also lessen the danger of mechanical damage to the piercing from powerful movement.
* Smoking.
1. Smoking slows healing by suppressing your immunological reaction and blood circulation to the skin.
2. If you can’t quit smoking then you must rethink having any piercings.
* Swimming.
Swimming is not forbidden while your piercing is healing, but you must only swim for short periods in pools that are comprehensively chlorine- or ozone-treated. Don’t let your skin become wrinkly and soft. If you swim in the sea or waterways, don’t swim after torrential rain. Tempest water run-off frequently contains bacteria and bugs.
* Pee .
Your own piss isn’t a risk to your piercing and indeed the flow of pee past your piercing will help in flushing away bacteria and exudate.
* Viral Illnesses .
Viruses like Hepatitis A, B, and C, and HIV can penetrate a piercing which has not healed. These viruses might be present in the blood, spit, semen, faeces, sweat and vaginal secretions of infected folks. Till your piercing has healed avoid any other person’s bodily liquids contacting your piercing. Practice safe sex and employ a rubber.
* Vitamins research has demonstrated that vitamin C and zinc promote wound healing. Shoot for about 2000-3000 mg vitamin C and a hundred mg zinc daily. Note that these amounts aren’t available in multivitamin capsules.
Ask at your chemist or health-food store for recommendation on appropriate products. If you’re taking any medicines, ask your chemist to be certain there are no interactions between them and the vitamin C and zinc you propose to take.