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Health Tips: Side effects of body piercing

Today body piercing has become major a style statement for youngsters. Body piercing from centuries has been representing different things for different cultures and religions. Body piercing can be done for sexual pleasure, for symbolic reason or even just for flaunting your style.

Before undergoing body piercing, one should know that unless proper care is taken, it can prove harmful for your skin. Skin infection is the biggest risk involved with body piercing. If the site of the piercing is not cleaned well in proper way, infection can crop up. Some of the others risks are cross-contamination, nerve damage, allergies, keloids etc.

Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterial infection that can affect your body if the site of piercing is not taken care of properly. In this infection, the piercing site becomes swollen with pus and redness. Also it can cause tremendous pain to pierced person. Eyebrows, nose, ears, cheeks, tongue, navel and sexual organs are some of the places where people want to get pierced.

If you are sensitive to certain metals, Make sure you talk about this with your piercing expert to avoid any kind of allergy to hit you later.

Remember that if you are getting your nose pieced, it take approximately 2-3 months to get completely healed up. If ear piercing attracts you then mind it that ear piercing takes 3-4 months to get completely healed. You will be glad to read that holding ice cube to your ear before piercing helps in avoiding pain and bleeding from pierced ear.

Last but not the least, always make sure you get piercing done by a professional expert only to avoid any kind of side effect to affect your body.

Make sure you pay heed to all above points before getting body piercing done to enjoy and flaunt them.

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