You'll have some pain when your nose is pierced. You may have some blood, swelling, tenderness, or bruising at first. It may be sore, tender, and red for up to 3 weeks. Pierced nostrils heal completely in about 2 to 4 months.
Rinse the area with soap and water when showering. Even a salt solution application can help in faster healing and reduce the buildup of germs in the area. Take over-the-counter painkillers to relieve pain and fever.
Signs of an infection
Your piercing might be infected if: the area around it is swollen, painful, hot, very red or dark (depending on your skin colour) there's blood or pus coming out of it – pus can be white, green or yellow. you feel hot or shivery or generally unwell.
Pain and Healing Time
You'll have some pain when your nose is pierced. You may have some blood, swelling, tenderness, or bruising at first. It may be sore, tender, and red for up to 3 weeks. Pierced nostrils heal completely in about 2 to 4 months.
Nose piercings are healed when they're no longer red, swollen, painful to the touch, or leaking discharge. Nostril piercings heal in about 3–6 months, while bridge and septum piercings take about 2–4 months. Nasallang and rhino piercings may take a full year to heal.
Avoid getting the piercing wet for at least one to two weeks. So, when you shower, try to avoid putting your face directly under the shower head. You might want to consider taking a bath instead.
Symptoms of piercing rejection
more of the jewelry becoming visible on the outside of the piercing. the piercing remaining sore, red, irritated, or dry after the first few days. the jewelry becoming visible under the skin. the piercing hole appearing to be getting larger.
Skip sticky foods, chewing gum, spicy, salty, acidic or hot foods as they can irritate the new piercing. To keep swelling down sip cold water, eat ice cream or other cold and frozen foods.
It is normal to experience pain, irritation, discharge, or bleeding as a new piercing heals. However, anything that goes beyond these symptoms is a cause for concern. A person should seek medical attention if the site: appears red or discolored.
Here's the good news: Even though a nose piercing takes a while to heal (more on that in a sec), you really only need to clean it a few times each day. “I recommend doing a saline rinse twice a day—on the inside and the outside of your nose,” says Ava Lorusso, professional piercer at Studs in NYC.
It's normal to have some redness, swelling or pain for a couple of days after getting your ears pierced. But your ears should look and feel better each day. If you find that your ears do great and then suddenly start to become red, inflamed or crusty a week or two later, that's usually a sign of infection.
Pain Scale: 5 on a scale of 1-10. The pain scale is 100% subjective and based on clients' feedback. Nostril piercings are said to be a bit more painful than lip or ear lobe piercings, but not as painful as septum piercings. Aftercare: Keep the area clean to avoid infection.
Complications include: Nerve damage: The piercer can inappropriately puncture the nose and hit a nerve in the process, causing permanent nerve damage. Necrosis of the nasal wall: A piercing technique that causes trauma to the nose tissues, can cause death of the cells surrounding the jewellery in the nasal wall.
Surface piercings have the highest rejection rate. Surface piercings such as microdermals as well as eyebrow piercings and navel piercings reject the most because they are closest to the surface of the skin.
A good rule of thumb is to wait until you are sure the piercing is healed and then wait a few more weeks to be sure. If you try to change it out before it's healed, you could cause immense harm to the piercing.
To ensure the healing process goes as smoothly as possible, wash your hands before touching your piercing or jewelry. Don't soak your piercing in water (other than a saline solution) until it fully healed. This means avoiding swimming pools, hot tubs, saunas, and baths during healing.
The most common side effects of a nose piercing are swelling, tenderness, and bleeding. These can last for several months. The side effects depend on your body's immune system and allergies. With a new nose piercing there's always a risk of infection.
You can even put an adhesive bandage over the nose jewellery while sleeping. You have a sharp point inside the nostril, so it is important that you avoid any activities where there might be impact to your nose.
Before changing your nose piercing, make sure it is completely healed. 2-3 months is the standard healing time for a nostril piercing. Once you feel like your piercing is good to go, then you should be okay to change out your jewelry.
Daily Cleaning and Care Instructions
Wash your new nose piercing on the outside of the nose twice a day. Do not remove the piercing stud when cleaning. When showering and washing your hair, use liquid soap on your nose and rinse thoroughly and gently with running water. Dry gently with a facial tissue or a cotton swab.