sweet jebus god

pretty-in-pink

Got my nose redone today, thats fine, but I'm now smothered with a cold. My nose hurts and I'm gettin a bit paranoid about infection. Is this very likely? Will normal headache tablets make the pain stop?

Star Lord

There's a chance of it alright, the general guidelines are if you just got a piercing, and you see someone with a cold, RUN AWAY!

Get plenty of vitamin c I guess, and just do your best to keep everything as clean as you can!!!

(nice meeting you last night btw!)

Gauge

Get some cotton buds for cleaning up inside your nose (by cleaning, I mean cleaning out snot and other cold-related nastiness) and just be careful when blowing your nose, try to avoid the stud/ring.

I sympathise. I have a cold too. Cold + nose piercings (especially fresh ones!) =

pretty-in-pink

cool, thanks. yeah, I though it typical, no cold last night or this AM, but by dinner time I stuffed up and head-spinny.

vitamin c, and plenty of cleaning.

bounty_hunter

Good advice already given, just try not to touch your nose too much with your fingers or fiddle with the jewellery when you're cleaning it.

I can also sympathise, I have double nostril piercings and having a cold is hell

Fantasy_Suicide

To be honest, nose piercings look after themselves from the inside. So don't aggrivate that too much. Don't over do it on the salt solution either. I've had multiple nostril piercings done, I know what can happen!! :P Yeah, so just clean it as per normal. If you find the salt solution is aggrivating the piercing, try cutting down on the amount of salt you're using. When you mix teh salt with the pint of water, it shouldn't be really salty to taste. It's a good way to measure if you've put too much/not enough salt in the solution. All else fails, take a trip to your local piercer.

Star Lord

Fantasy_Suicide wrote: »

All else fails, take a trip to your local piercer.*

*so long as its not georges arcade...

Demonique

Juice or crush some ginger, put the juice/crushed bits into a mug, add hot water and sugar/honey to sweeten.

I took some at the start of a cold and it never developed

rannerap

i wish i had taken that advice:(dying with a cold all week,my septum retainer keeps falling out and is not happy

pretty-in-pink

is 99% gone! Yeah. Changed to a smaller bar today. So pretty.