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Can a piercing reject after a week?
Rejection usually happens in the weeks and months following a new piercing, but it can also happen years, even decades, later. If you bump your old piercing in an odd way or have an infection that kicks your immune system into overdrive, you might suddenly see signs of migration and rejection.
One of the best ways to prevent your belly button piercing from being rejected is to use an easy-to-tolerate metal, to begin with, and throughout the healing stages. You should definitely stay away from nickel, which is a metal that people routinely have problems with.
How long will belly button piercing be sore?
Symptoms can include pain, redness, and swelling, and improving hygiene can help. Complete healing can take 9–12 months. In the meantime, a piercing is technically a healing wound, and it may be sore, red, or irritated. Intense pain, swelling, or a fever, however, can indicate a severe infection.
Do belly button piercings grow out?
In general, changes of it growing out are bigger when you have a bigger stomach. The body will reject the piercing and it will fall out over time. In addition, with an outward navel, it is possible that there is not enough room to have it pierced.
Symptoms of an infected belly button piercing
- severe swelling with pain and redness.
- yellow, green, gray, or brown discharge that has an odor.
- red lines that radiate from the piercing site.
- fever, chills, dizziness, upset stomach, or vomiting.
You’ll need to:
- Wash your hands before you touch your piercing.
- Swab with saline solution to keep it clean and avoid infection.
- Don’t clean too much.
- Gently dry the area with a clean, disposable paper product.
- Leave any crust alone.
- Don’t put anything on your belly button unless a doctor tells you to.
Can you feel the bar of a belly piercing?
Of course you can feel it, the bar doesn’t disappear as soon as it enters your skin, it is there under a few layers of skin. keep up the cleaning routine set out by your piercer, don’t play with it too much, allow it to heal and otherwise enjoy your new piercing!