An Open Letter To NHS Staff...
We think you are amazing! We have so much respect for everything you do, but today we would like to speak to you about body piercing.
We are worried about the advice you give surrounding body piercing, and we would like to speak to you about it, and work with you.
We often see customers who have been to their doctor regarding a piercing, and have been provided with information we would disagree with. We usually see that they have been given advice to treat a piercing like any other cut, scrape or wound, and to ignore the aftercare advice we have provided. We also often see first aid being applied to piercings just like any other cut, scrape or wound.
Piercings are not like a 'normal' cut, scrape or wound, and need to be treated as something completely different.
We know you know what you are doing, but we need you to trust us when we say, we know what we are doing, too!
How many times a day do you see a body piercing? Because we see them all day every day, we spend our days learning everything there is to learn about piercings, about techniques, about aftercare, about jewellery standards, about troubleshooting...we are specialists, really!
We see how piercings heal, we see them when they aren't healing like they should, and we know when the jewellery in them is or isn't the right size, shape or material.
Remember! Only implant grade titanium, niobium, 18 & 24ct gold are safe for new piercings - other metals are massive irritants to open wounds!
So today we are asking you, on behalf of fellow professionals, who care about people's health and wellbeing, too, to listen to us, and work with us to create a system where we can work together and keep people's piercings happy and healthy.
Here are the things that are the most important to us:
Trust us, we know what we are talking about!
Keep up the good work.
Pierce Of Art Alfreton x
We are worried about the advice you give surrounding body piercing, and we would like to speak to you about it, and work with you.
We often see customers who have been to their doctor regarding a piercing, and have been provided with information we would disagree with. We usually see that they have been given advice to treat a piercing like any other cut, scrape or wound, and to ignore the aftercare advice we have provided. We also often see first aid being applied to piercings just like any other cut, scrape or wound.
Piercings are not like a 'normal' cut, scrape or wound, and need to be treated as something completely different.
We know you know what you are doing, but we need you to trust us when we say, we know what we are doing, too!
How many times a day do you see a body piercing? Because we see them all day every day, we spend our days learning everything there is to learn about piercings, about techniques, about aftercare, about jewellery standards, about troubleshooting...we are specialists, really!
We see how piercings heal, we see them when they aren't healing like they should, and we know when the jewellery in them is or isn't the right size, shape or material.
Remember! Only implant grade titanium, niobium, 18 & 24ct gold are safe for new piercings - other metals are massive irritants to open wounds!
So today we are asking you, on behalf of fellow professionals, who care about people's health and wellbeing, too, to listen to us, and work with us to create a system where we can work together and keep people's piercings happy and healthy.
Here are the things that are the most important to us:
- Please don't advise anything stronger than sterile saline on a new piercing. They really don't need anything stronger than that, the aftercare is helping the piercing along, the immune system is doing the healing!
- Please don't put oils or ointments on a new piercing, it prevents the body from doing what it needs to in terms of draining fluid and suffocates the area.
- Please don't administer antibiotics unless you are 100% sure the piercing site is infected - piercings are often irritated due to inappropriate aftercare, rather than infected! We live in a culture where it is being advised not to take antibiotics when they aren't needed.
- Please leave the jewellery in place! The NHS guidelines are to leave jewellery in place in the case of a true infection as the jewellery acts as a drain and prevents the infection from spreading, but yet we see doctors week in week out ignoring this advice completely. And in the case of irritation over infection - there's no need to take the jewellery out! If you are 100% certain you want the jewellery removing - send the patient to us, we know how body jewellery works, I promise we can remove it in less time and cause less trauma to the area by trying.
Trust us, we know what we are talking about!
Keep up the good work.
Pierce Of Art Alfreton x
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