Red Ring Around New Tongue Piercing

In most cases it is quite normal to experience some swelling and irritation during the first 2 weeks but if these signs don t disappear and other symptoms show up it will be necessary to immediately consult your doctor and receive adequate medical treatments and antibiotic therapies.

Red ring around new tongue piercing.

Popular names for tongue piercing include tongue ring which is a misnomer as only rarely are rings worn in tongue piercings. A tongue piercing officially takes six and eight weeks to completely heal. There is a history of ritual tongue piercing in both aztec and maya cultures with illustrations of priests piercing their tongue and then either drawing blood. We ll walk you through.

Tongue suddenly started getting an orange coat on top imediatly after getting a double tongue piercing. Don t let the healing process scare you from getting the piercing like i alm. You can usually treat an infected tongue piercing at home. Injuries or trauma to your piercing may cause bleeding that delays the healing process.

Okay so i got my tongue pierced more than 2 weeks ago. Symptoms or signs of infected tongue piercing. An untreated infected tongue piercing leads to severe consequences including death. For the first few days after tongue piercing it is normal to experience some pain and swelling on the site.

The tongue should be fully healed within 6 8 weeks after the piercing has been done. The tongue piercing is not gender specific it was not created specifically for just a man or just a woman. However your individual healing process depends entirely on how you care for your new piercing. The ijahsp also mentions swollen lymph nodes and unusual discharge as signs of infection.

Other symptoms of infection include fever chills shaking or red streaks around the piercing wound. I changed it at the two week mark cause i hated the long barbell and it was uncomfortable. It hasn t gone away anything i can do to help. I just noticed that its kind of sore and there s a red circle right around the hole where it got pierced.

Honestly the healing process wasn t horrible. 5 days in and now its nearly coated the entire top of tongue tahlia morritt on june 06 2019. Thank you for watching my video. I got a new barbell washed my hands and sterilized the barbell in a sea salt solution and everything.