Is Your Piercing INFECTED or IRRITATED?

"Help! I think my piercing is infected! Can you help me?" I get similar messages like this often and thought I would help differentiate between what is an infected piercing and what is just an irritated piercing. Believe me...you will KNOW if a piercing is infected. It's not subtle.

Because I'm always asked...
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[briiori]

Was on the verge of a panic attack because I thought I was gonna have to take my belly piercing out. Thank you for this video !! My chest is a lot lighter now 😂

[jadenmontoya]

I can’t even express how just the first two minutes of this video calmed me down. Whether my nose ring is infected or not you have really taken some stress off my shoulders. Thank you!

[nicolekisch]

100% spot on! Masks are such a pain for some piercings. I’m not really a hoop girl but I changed one of my piercings from a stud to a hoop and irritation problem solved!

[shockingresident]

This is honestly so conforting and helps me no to panic

[AngiesHugoBoss]

Never had an infection with any of my piercings so far. But I've experienced irritation several times. Right now my flat helix is irritated because I slept on it several times and I got a little bump. I've had bumps with other piercings before so I know after care and extra patience are the keys :)

[MyNaturalHealthJourney]

My first helix piercing got irritated sooo many times. Turned out my ear couldn't handle the material they used🤷🏼‍♀️ Switched materials and it's gotten so much better. So now that I know about that, getting two new piercings doesn't frighten me as much as getting my second helix😁 Also, your videos are so helpful, thanks a lot!😊

[indigo]

I actually just recently got my septum done a couple weeks ago and just last night I got this bump, I was freaking out and thought it might've been an infection until I found this, thanks!

[demiphillips]

Thank you for easing my anxiety! I only have an irritated piercing but boy was I panicking 😅

[BABYGIRL-xhty]

You’re like literally the best. I was stressing so much for the past three days. I think my nose piercing is infected because it’s slightly red and have a small piercing bump. My friends were telling me that it was an infection but after this video I realized it wasn’t. Thank you so so much! It also fell out my nose before but I put it in super fast without cleaning it so i immediately thought it was an infection. It isn’t hurting nor have pus that’s a good thing.

[secretsubielover]

I’m 11 days into my healing process from just getting my nipples done and came across your video! It was so helpful especially since even though being familiar with piercings this is a new one for me. My right has been doing great. From the start my left bled more and has been more sensitive (which normally is anyway) but it helped so much to ease my concerns and plan on doing my sea salt soaks when I’m supposed to and trying to let the girls breathe. I wear a looser fitting bra so I don’t have them squished all day but I have a very active job as well where I’m trying my hardest to be careful! Thank you so much for your video!

[aaileennn]

i was so scared because i thought my belly ring was infected but you gave me all the symptoms of irritation

[ania]

my second lobe piercing got infected real bad and i treated it impressively well and now it's like 98% healed. my other second lobe wasn't exactly infected maybe on the verge because it had like a ball or a bump and i popped it with a needle, cleaned all the blood and puss and now it's great! still not healed but maybe 80%. i'm still caring for it so it should heal hopefully 😌. i dealt with it and i'm so proud of myself of how well it turned out. thank you for your video and the information you shared 🧡

[luccilea]

i did my daith a couple months ago and it is healing really well. no infections or anything best wishes with all of your piercings much love <33

[hannahkate]

omg thank you so much! I've been stressing over this irritated 2nd lobe piercing and whether or not it was infected or what! Now I see it's just irritated and damn I'm way more chill.

[f-v]

Thank you this helped me a lot! I’m about 2 weeks into getting my ears peirced and just got a little bit of the fluid in my left ear. I’m happy to know it’s not infected, thank you!

[calebjosef]

Heat is a good identifier, but ears often get red/hot first when in the right environment. I've many times worried by ear was infected because it was a little red & warm, but then also realized my other ear was also red and warm, + the room was probably too hot lol

[mala]

Came here for my nostril. It just started bleeding. Two days ago, I accidentally pulled some crusties into the tunnel. It barely hurt, but I made a mental note. Today, 2 days later, it has a tiny bump, barely noticeable, so I ignored it at first. But when I cleaned it earlier and it bled a few drops, I got pretty worried and decided to hit up google (bad idea) and YouTube. With the help of this video (and also some help from Google), I was able to figure out that my piercings only irritated and irritated piercings can also bleed. Well, thank the sky. And thank you, you're a treasure.🥰

[luca]

Got a red and painful double helix. It’s been a week since I got it and I thought it was healing so nicely. I was so nervous because I had a rejected tragus before… I now think it’s just irritated because I may have turned around in my sleep. Thanks so much for this video, now I’ve calmed down a lot haha

[LL-kucr]

I needed this video when I had my snug done. It got so inflamed I thought it was infected so I did more after care and was shocked it kept getting more irritated. It wasn't infected, just really swollen. My piercer needed to change the jewelry a bigger size even though there was enough space in the old one for swelling, just not this kind of swelling

[victoriajones]

This made me feel so much better! I got my both of my Tragus done about 3 weeks ago and recently i got tiny little blister like bumps that release tiny bits of clear liquid. But almost painless (sore sometimes) so that was the main give away to ease my mind that it probably isn't infected.