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Hi, I'm Kerri at Zebra in Berkeley, and I'm here to talk about treating an infected belly
button piercing. If your belly button is infected, the first thing you're going to want to do
is go seek the advice from a professional piercer. Sometimes your piercing isn't infected
at all -- it's just showing signs of irritation and/or allergic reaction. Those two areas
can be treated very easily by changing the way you're cleaning your piercing or changing
the jewelry. If your piercer decides that the piercing really, truly is showing signs
of infection, you're going to want to go see your doctor so he can prescribe some antibiotics.
Until then, you're definitely going to want to soak your navel for 10 to 15 minutes once
a day with warm salt water. The way you do that is you take a small cup, warm water,
one pinch -- small pinch -- of Epsom salt or sea salt. Do not use regular table salt
-- it has iodine in it and it will irritate. You're going to take that cup, bend over it,
cup it to you. It'll create a suction, and you'll just hold it on there, 10 to 15 minutes
once a day. That's going to help start pulling the *** out, loosening the crust. It's going
to get some of the bad bacteria out of there. You can also, and I say this with a lot of
caution, use a minimal amount of a triple antibiotic ointment two to three times a day.