How to stop lip piercing from getting white puss?

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1. Jennifer
   

   

   
   

    If you’re piercing was done by skilled body expert piercer that would have been clarified to you in some detail. But this is apparently not the case; the white "puss" as you call it is lymphatic matter. Your body develops this as it recovers the piercing.
   
   You should wash every day and clean your piercing and in the way this white "puss" is removed. Your body develops more as the day proceeds on and you replicate the method of cleansing the piercing and eliminating the freshly developed "puss" the next day. Each day the allowance of the white "puss" is decreased showing that the piercing is healing.

   
   

   

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2. amomipais82
   

   Hi,
   Ok, professional piercer here. These people don't know what they're talking about. FIRST, NEVER EVER put peroxide on a piercing, if it turns out NOT infected, then you've just created an unnecessary problem by drying out and irritating your piercing. Swelling and redness happens with every lip piercing but excessive amounts shouldn't be ignored. If you have a little bit of white puss, I'm talking a very minimum amount that forms crusts at your piercing, then it's not infected. but if it is green, don't put ANYTHING on it and head to the doctor to get antibiotics (and if he wants to put peroxide on it then let him). DO NOT take the jewelry out if you suspect an infection, if you take the jewelry out the infection heals inside of your body which can cause major trouble in the long run. If you do get an infection, after getting some meds, notify your piercer and file a report with your state's health inspector.

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