After about three days of religious sea salt soaks, my piercing felt infinitely better. I kept it up for about two weeks and the bump had completely cleared away. Most people tell you to mix the sea salt in a cup (I believe it's a quarter teaspoon to 8 ounces of water as the appropriate measurement.) I simply winged it because the sea salt I had, I couldn't get it out of the container and into a measurement spoon. So I put it directly into the water and tasted it until it tasted like tears, basically. I would take a cotton ball and submerge it in the water, squeeze out the excess and put it on my nose for five minutes. After that time passed, I put a new one on for another five minutes. When that time was up, I'd go back into the bathroom and submerge my nose in the cup for about a minute. And this next step piercers don't tell you to do, but it helped greatly with me. I would take a bit of the sea salt in my palm and actually put some on the damp bump. I'd do this twice. Once immediately after getting home from work, and once right before bed so I could sleep with the salt on my nose. It's amazing, but the sea salt actually draws out the pus and at the same time dries out the bump.
Another thing that helped was when I took a shower, I would actually cup the warm water in my hands and submerge my nose in it and kind of exhale into the water. I would do this a couple of times in the course of the cleaning, and when I got out of the shower, I would actually notice that a bit of pus had leaked out. I'd just take a q-tip and clean that off of there, and generally the pus became less and less until the piercing actually healed.
I just recently became infected again, and started right in on the sea salt soaks. It's two days in, and already my piercing is healing back up. They definitely do work wonders. So if you are in agony about that beautiful piercing of yours gone wrong and you're sure it's an infection and not because of the jewelry, then sea salt soaks should be your solution. You'll find many different methods on the internet ranging from tea tree oil to the dreaded peroxide -- but sea salt is the most helpful and natural one you can use. Don't despair. Your nose piercing can be saved!
loooooooooooolll exactly how i felt, currently going through the sea salt routine hope it works
#2 by nini, Jan 1, 2008
basically u've just explained my experience im currently trying the sea salt treatment, but using a different method than yours. thanks for the tips tho
#3 by cxg751, Jun 24, 2008
You took the words right out of my mouth! I just want this little red bump to go AWAY!!! Thanks for the tip
#4 by mommy23, Jul 5, 2008
Hey... I had the same bump about 3 wks after I got pierced. I got the piercing in May and its July and i just got rid of it. I did everything I read about, nothing was working. I went to a tattoo and peircing palce and this is what they did: First the took out the stud and put a ring, this stops the top of the stud fom hitting or "bumping" the bump. Then they told me to get BC or Goodies powdered asprin and mixing with 100% Tea Tree Oil to a toothpaste looking paste...put it on the bump and leave it there for 15-20 min...then wash it off with warm water and apply some plain Tea Tree Oil and they said by doing that it should be gone within 2 wks. I started that as soon as I got home and within 2 days it was gone. Do this it it should work. It did for me when all else failed.
#5 by bekabug, Jul 28, 2008
I tried *everything* to get my bump to go away. I did the hot compresses, sea salt, tea tree...this was over the course of a year and my nostril was constantly sore and had a bump.
It finally dawned on me that I was allergic to the metal of the stud. I bought a titanium nostril screw and the soreness stopped in about 3 days and it was healed with absolutely no bump or outside scarring in about 1 week.
#6 by mspiggy, Aug 9, 2008
See how people experience different things though it\'s the same type of piercing: sometimes hot compress works, sometimes sea salt soak works, sometimes changing the jewleries works, etc. so you cannot really give the same advice to different people. Go talk to your piercers, make sure they are good at what they are doing, ortherwise, consult with a really good one to work on your case. Take care, Ya'll!!!
#7 by Em, Sep 8, 2008
I had the worst bump experience- it started as a bump at the side of the piercing, i went to my piercer and she changed the jewellry which made the bump worse and it spread all around the stud!!! i tried everything- sea salt soaks, tea tree oil, camomile and nothing worked. as a last resort i went to my doctor who told me i had a build up of scarring and injected the skin around the bump with a tiny bit of hydrocortisone steroid. within 5 days the scarring has dramtically reduced and has gone skin coloured so it is almost un noticeable. So dont give up hope- perhaps this could help you too.
#8 by Shawna, Oct 11, 2008
Thank you soooooooooo much because I have this bump too on my nose! i'll try the sea salt! Thanks again! :-)
#9 by bug_grl, Oct 12, 2008
just got the bump...will try all and report back....
#10 by jesss, Nov 26, 2008
going thru the same stuff. im using h2ocean.sucks
im trying sea salt thanks :)
