Belly Button Piercing

The professional who performs a belly body piercing seldom knows much about the process called colonic hydrotherapy. Yet both the belly button piercing and the colonic hydrotherapy pose an added danger to certain individuals. Certain individuals have medical devices that have been implanted in the peritoneal cavity or in the abdomen. Extra care must be taken by patients with such devices. Such patients should avoid the risk of infection associated with a body piercing. They should also avoid massaging movements on the abdomen, movements that come with a treatment known as colonic hydrotherapy. Those without such devices should heed the advice in the following article.

A number of young people wrestle with the question of whether or not to undergo a belly button piercing. Few such young people realize that the decision to have a belly button piercing leads to the need for a number of other decisions. The right decisions help to decrease the possible dangers often associated with any type of body piercing.

A wise youth chooses to have his or her navel piercing done by a professional. It invites problems whenever someone foolishly attempts a belly button piercing at home. By the same token, it defies reason to allow just any “professional” to pierce your tender belly. So what should one look for when seeking a place to get a belly button piercing?

First of all, look for a clean facility. You do not want the person doing the piercing to use instruments that have not been cleaned and sterilized. If an earlier visitor to that piercing facility had AIDS, then the virus on a dirty instrument could infect the next person to get a piercing. That is why it is important to use a clean facility.

In addition, look for someone who behaves in a professional manner. Suppose, for example, that you walk into a piercing facility and find the one person there on the phone. If he or she does not pay attention to those entering the facility, how can you trust that person to devote undivided attention to the piercing process?

Once you have found a clean facility that has someone who actually behaves like a professional, then you must decide what type of ornament you want in your belly after the initial piercing. You will probably need to decide between a 14 gauge belly button ring and a barbell. Keep in mind that the ring rotates more easily than the barbell; the rotation aids the cleaning process that must follow the belly button piercing.

Proper cleaning of a pierced naval does not mean just a thorough washing once a day. In order to avoid an infected belly button piercing, one needs to clean the pierced area three to five times a day. Such cleaning should take place during the entire healing process, a process that can take between three to nine months.

Due to the danger of infection a belly button piercing poses extra risks to anyone with an internally-placed medical device. For example, a diabetic with an internal insulin pump should think long and hard before deciding to have a navel piercing. If the pump became infected, then the microorganism would grow rapidly on that pump. In fact the pump would probably need to be removed.

A diabetic might not think that a shiny belly has the same value as a costly, possibly irreplaceable insulin pump.

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