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Just got my lip pierced, need to know about the aftercare?

The piercer told me to clean my piercing with Saline Solution 3 times a day and use mouthwash and brush my teeth and suck on ice if it gets too swollen. l have a longer bar in at the moment and my lip is swollen. Can someone let me know when this will go down and will it stop rubbing once l change the jewelery into a smaller bar?

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the aftercare your piercer gave you is the bare minimum. you should get some mild antibiotic soap, like Dial, and make a thick soap and water solution (more soap than water) in a dixie cup. Use a Q-tip to clean around your piercing with the solution. Buy some H2Ocean from your piercer, or another piercing shop if they don't have it, and spray it on after you have cleaned the piercing. Leave it on afterward, it will seep into the piercing and continue to disinfect and clean for a few hours after. Do this 2-3 times a day. use non-alcohol based, antibacterial mouthwash(like Crest) whenever you brush your teeth or after you eat. DO NOT touch your piercing at all. that's the biggest cause of infection. don't play with it with your tongue or chew on it or anything like that, it will just irritate it more. The swelling should go down in about a week at most, then go back to your piercer and get them to change the bar out for you. if it's positioned correctly, it will stop rubbing against your teeth/gums.

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