Body Pleasure
A Navel Pierced with a Navel Stud!
I wish to show you what I have been telling people for years...
This is the consequence of poor sterilisation and bad choice of jewellery.
This Navel was pierced at another studio (so called professional!)
They inserted a UV Navel Stud .. they told the client that it was sterilised!
Within 2 weeks the top ball was almost entirely inside the top of the piercing ..
Notice the hole beside the ball - the client is actually holding the ball out of the hole that it has made.
Because a navel stud was inserted and the piercing swelled from bruising and infection, the ball has put pressure onto the soft tissue and has worked it's way into the piercing causing a lot of pain and constant discomfort. The skin around the top ball has deteriorated and is moist white flesh.
As this bar is UV and has a jewel glued into it - I believe that if it had been autoclave sterilised that the jewel would have fallen out and the plastic would have melted. Autoclaves get to 135 degrees C. Most UV items are not suitable for autoclaving especially if they have jewels glued into them.
The redness is from the pressure of the tight bar and the body trying to reject the piercing possibly due to low grade steel, a reaction to the steel or from infection.
Once a piercing is red like this it is a very bad sign. Often indicating that the body is trying to (an eventually will) reject the jewellery. If left untreated the piercing may never heal and the jewellery will eventually fall onto the ground as the skin in front of it dies and falls away.
We have tried to save this by inserting a Titanium Ball Closure Ring 1.6mm x 12mm. ng.
I am hoping that the movement from the ring and the release of pressure will enable this piercing to heal and the redness to reduce.
Please check and double check everything prior to letting anyone do this to your body.
Make sure the jewellery is appropriate for the first piercing, make sure it IS sterilised - don't just take their word for it, if it is not in a sealed autoclave bag then it is not safe. And make sure it is a navel ring as these are far better suited to HEAL new piercings. For more information on How to choose a safe piercer, visit our Tips Page.
These photo's were taken June 2002.
NB: When I last saw the piercing a week after these photo's were taken, it was looking less red and the soreness had gone.
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Rhonda@bodypleasurepiercing.com