Can you drink alcohol after getting ear piercing?

Avoid drinking any alcohol for the first 4-5 days after receiving your piercing, as it can promote bleeding and increase swelling. The use of any recreational drugs should also be avoided as it may slow the healing process. For oral piercings smoking may delay the healing process.

Can you drink before or after a piercing?

Don’t drink alcohol or caffeine before or right after your piercing. This can cause blood thinning and lead to excessive bleeding, bruising around the piercing site, and extra pain. To be safe, avoid drinking any alcohol until a few days after you’ve had the piercing done.

Is it bad to be drunk while getting a piercing?

Getting Drunk or Drinking at All It’s actually illegal to pierce or tattoo anyone that appears to be under the influence. Even if your piercer just ends up smelling a beer on you! Alcohol thins out the blood and may make you bleed more when being pierced. This actually works for caffeine and energy drinks as well.

What can you not do with newly pierced ears?

Stay out of pools, hot tubs, rivers, lakes and other bodies of water while your piercing is healing. Don’t fiddle with your piercings. Don’t touch a new piercing or twist the jewelry unless you’re cleaning it. Keep clothing away from the piercing, too.

Can I drink the night before a piercing?

Please don’t drink alcoholic beverages the night before getting pierced. Even if it’s not enough to make you drunk or hung-over, it could still thin your blood the next day. Coming in sick exposes the piercer and other employees and clients to your sickness and it may hinder your piercing’s healing process.

Can I drink alcohol with a new lip piercing?

Stick to cold foods and drinks to soothe and reduce swelling in the first few days. Avoid icing your piercing. Cold drinks from the refrigerator are cold enough. If you experience bleeding or swelling, do not drink alcohol or caffeine as they may exacerbate symptoms.

Can you drink alcohol with a lip piercing?

Don’t take aspirin, drink alcohol, or consume excessive amounts of caffeine during the first two weeks of the lip piercing healing process. New lip piercings are prone to occasional bleeding, and these things can thin your blood and make it harder for your body to form clots.

Does alcohol help with piercing pain?

Do not use rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide. (Both slow the healing of pierced area by drying and killing new healthy cells.) Do not use bacitracin or other ointments. (Ointments attempt to heal the skin & may slow oxygen transport to the tissue).

How do you sleep with freshly pierced ears?

If you have a new ear piercing, a thinner travel pillow works great to keep pressure off while you’re sleeping. If you don’t have a travel pillow you can roll a clean cotton T-shirt or sheet up and place it around the ear so that when you lay on your side, there’s no direct pressure on your ear.

How long should you keep an earlobe piercing in?

Don’t take your earrings out too early! They will close rather rapidly. Leave earrings in for 6-8 weeks, giving your ears time to heal.

How do you prepare for a lobe piercing?

Here are the most important things to know before getting a piercing.

1. Consider going by yourself.
2. You should eat something beforehand.
3. Make sure you’re legally old enough to get pierced.
4. Absolutely everything should be sterile during the procedure.
5. Definitely skip the piercing gun.