I have a slightly infected helix piercing, does anyone have any advice that isn't "go and see your piercer"? It's only a mild infection but cleaning it as he told me to (with a saline wound spray aka salt water) want doing anything for it, it's a bit soothing at the time because it's cold but it's not actually helping the infection. I know alcohol would probably help but I'm not sure if it's too harsh. Since it's not badly infected (e.g. leaking pus, swollen, bleeding etc) I don't want to take it out, partly because there's no need to but also I heard doing so can make it worse and you should only take it out if it's badly infected. I'll list the issues with it in case that help. Thank you in advance to anyone that can help me!!
Slightly crusty (hate that word but it is)
Still hurts to put any pressure on, nowhere near as much as when I just had it done but definitely more than it should be at this point (it's about a month and a half old)
Gets irritated from being touched, including when I'm cleaning it (I try not to touch it but obviously to clean it I have to, I also occasionally will have a quick feel if it's hurting more than usual just to see if it's swollen if there's no mirror around, and luckily it has never been swollen yet)
Basically it's acting like a fresh piercing + some dry gunk on it
So if anyone can give me advice I would really appreciate it!! Just please don't say to go and see a piercer because obviously I can't do that right now :/
