What ever you do DO NOT TAKE OUT THE BAR!!!! If you take out the bar the infection will seal up inside your tongue and become much worse! Mine became infected after having it for 5 years because I increased my guage without soaking the bar. My tongue swelled again and became sore and my throat down into my neck became painful. I rinsed my mouth with warm salt water atleast 3 times a day, moving the bar up and down to insure that the water went through the hole, and then lifted my tongue up to allow any pus to escape. Thats all you can do. IF it becomes so painful that you can not swollow or talk - go back to your piercer and ask what they think you should do.

i disagree with the advice above...with ANY infection ...GO TO THE DOCTOR! he will prescribe an antibiotic or something to clear up the infection. If the doctor suggests removing the jewelry...DO AS THE DR SAYS. You can always get it repierced later if needed but definetely go to the doctor and dont play around waiting to see if it will heal on its own,...infections do not heal on thier own and can cause serious complications of left untreated. the infection can get into your blood stream and release toxins all throughout your body.

As we speak my tounge is infected, it sucks, and the symptoms are as the first person told you, but the 2nd person is right as well. You should trying cleaning it out with warm salt water 3 times a day and if you feel it necessary go back to cleaning it the way you did when you first got it pierced. In my case that was watered down listerine after everything i ate or drank that wasn't water. If you do all these things, and you notice that the infection is not going away you should go to the doctor and ask them what you should do. At this point you would have already done everything the piercer would have told you, and it's time to go to the doctor. Then take the doctors orders from there. I hope this helped you out :)

I need some help too, i got mine done like 4 days ago, and this white thing keeps coming out of the whole everytime i take the piercing out to clean it!! Warm water and salt????

i just got my tongue pierced 8 days ago, and its looking pretty good. nothing is wrong with it. my friend told me badd stuff can happen when its infected. like you might not be about to ever talk again. im getting really scared and nervous. is it easy to get an infection?

I think i have my tounge infected because white puss is coming out of it!..I was wondering if some one could give me some help full things i can do to help it heal??

i recently got my tongue pierced about 4 days ago. i regularly clean it with alcohol free mouthwash after every meal etc. should i be woried that there is a bloody blob at the side of my barbell? i dont know if it is infected of i just hid it in my sleep?? help me please x x x

i qOt mine 5 mOnths aqO and a liddO white thinq is cOminq Out i dunnO if is an iffectiOn.. it lOoks like a liddO vOlcanO at times.. and it dOn't hurt me da much.. but i wuld like to knOw and how tO clean it cuz i hear da i culd clean it wif warm salt water.. bt dOes it really help..?? i really dnt wunna qO tO da dOctor =/ SO HELP!!!

um yeah i got mine pierced and its bleeding at night when im asleep idk if its cause i keep my mouth completely shut and dont give it room to breath or what and its like a lil purple around it i think its a bruise is it infected or just sore around it o im also afraid to eat cause it looks gross afterwards

i had mine dun 4 dyas ago..its lookin all gud.n i have no worrys about infection,i kno it shud be fine. if u think its infected go to the doctor or piecer asap just incase,thers no harm in checking. clean ur tung ,u can even look 4 cleanin guides on the internet,jus try and be carfull. i hope this helps x

Fools and blind.

i just got my second tongue pierced a week ago, and im starting to notice a bump going around it on the bottom,and it's around my other one too,but the tops seems fine,the top doesnt hurt,bleed or anything,but the bottom of my tongue kinda hurts,and i dont want to take it out,i would like to know what to do.Ive been using oral-B mouthwash without alcohol in it,and i would just like to know if this is normal,and if i keep cleaning it,it will go away please help=(

idk i also got ma toungue ring last week and im starting to notice even though i clean it excesivly with salt water and scope mouth wash and brushing ma toungue after every meal my toungue is this sort of white color there is no swelling of ma toungue and no pain should i be worried about my toungue being white ?

i got my tongue ring 12 days ago.. i had no pain at all it healed perfect or so i thought... i now notice at the top of the pirecing around the barell is slightly swollen.. it does not hurt unless the ring press aganist i hard.. it s not givin off no substance.. is it infected?? and waht shoild i do??

chika11.. i have the same problem! what did you end up doing? if anyone else has had the same problem, please help!!!

They have a peroxide mouth rinse that you should be swishing with. It's usually sold at piercing shops. Get some & use it!

IF YOU HAVE HAD YOUR PIERCING FOR OVER A MONTH THAT IS WHEN THE REAL SYMPTOMS START TO HAPPEN. SO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE HAD IT FOR LIKE A WEEK AND HAVE WHAT MAY SEEM LIKE INFECTION SYMPTOMS LIKE SOURNESS,BLEEDING, PUSS, OR WHATEVER DON'T WORRY THAT HAPPENS TO ALMOST EVERYONE AND IT TAKES UP TO 2 WEEKS FOR YOU TONGUE TO HEAL. IT'S JUST YOUR TONGUE GETTING USED TO HAVING A BAR THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF IT. BUT IF YOU HAVE BUMPS ON YOUR TOUNGE ESPECIALLY THE BOTTOM THEY MAY BE WHAT ARE CALLED KELOIDES WHICH IS NOT INFECTION BUT REQUIRES YOU TO TAKE OUT YOU BARBELL IMMEDIATLY!!! I HAVE SOOOOOOO AUCH EXPERIENCE WITH TONGUE PIERCINGS I'VE BASICALLY BEEN THROUGH IT ALL SO I HOPE THIS INFO IS HELPING TO YOU. GOOD LUCK:)

Chelchelrea, it might just be scar tissue formed around the bottom of the tongue ring i had got mine done almost 3 weeks ago and and i have scar tissue aroudn the bottom of it (usually from playing with the ring while its healing) i showed my piercer and he told me to tie dental floss kinda tight around it to cut the cerculation of to the scar tissue and it should just fall of in like 5 days but! check with your piercer and make sure its not a keloid :) and i also have a white layer over my tongue its kinda gross ive been using scop and sea salt and water but i think it should go away

I had my tongue peircied about a week ago and the swelling is going down .. but im starting to notice that .. around the top ball .. there is an indent on my tongue... and a white circle.. is that normal .. ?

I got my tongue pierced on wednesday and its now sunday, only yesterday and today i looked at the tounge and saw that aroung and slightly inside the hole itself that the bar is going through there is a white/light yellow discharge type liquid inside and around...im worried that my tongue is infected also my tongue is a whit-ish colour (the taste buds themselves are like white) im worried because im not sure whether its infected or not ! is it ?

i just got my tongue pierced three days ago and its obviously swollen and sore but also today it started to kinda tingle on the sides and the tip of my tongue. I'm afraid that its either infected or im allergic to the barbell. anybody have any advice?

I had my tongue pierced on friday it is now monday when i woke this morning it really hurt to move it, it hurts to swollow and if i want to eat i have to put food at the side of me mouth to eat. the thing thats really worrying me is i have a white layer on the top of my tongue and i dont now if it should be my pircer said its like this because ive overwashed,when i hadnt used mouthwash just toothpaste if any one can help email messybarbie@hoymail.co.uk

i had my tounge pierced tuesday it is now friday i have sort of a blister on the top ov my tounge near the ball i dont know if it is infected or not it hurts at the back of my throat and it very sore every morning

I have had my tongue pierced for five years and it just became infected. I believe its from too much citrus fruit followed by too much listerine. I called the piercer and they said if you have your tongue pierced, you should never use listerine and should rinse with SEA SALT, not just table salt which was what I have been doing for the past two days. After rinsing with the sea salt just once it already feels better. You mix 1/4 of a teaspoon of sea salt with an 8oz glass of warm water, 2 minute intervals for about 15 minutes. If it does not feel better in a few days then you should absolutely go to the doctor.

i have only had mine done for 4 days & its now swollen what so ever. Although the left side of my tongue is slgihtly knotted up as if there were infection in it? & there is green'ish, yellow substance around the barbell. Im not sure what to do to get rid of the infection!?!

honestly people really need to read up on this shit http://www.bmezine.com/pierce/articles/ptafter/tongue.html this is a site that will give you all some answers

I got my tongue pierced on Thursday and it's now Sunday. Here's what's happened so far. On Thursday, the day I got it pierced, It hurt alot but it wasn't really that swollen and I was talking normally. My tongue was very tender and I couldn't eat anything but apple sauce and bottled water. The next day, I woke up with a very swollen tongue and took three anti-inflamatory pills, (ibuprofen) It was fine that day, if tender and still a little swollen. Yesterday It was swollen and I had a slight cut on the front of my tongue under the top ball. I think this came from talking and playing with the bar too much. I had an indentation under the ball, and the top of my tongue around the bar was starting to turn white. By the end of the day the pain was nearly gone, but my cut had become a round red blister. This morning my mouth was dry and my tongue hurt, still swollen. There was a light opaque discharge forming in the dent at the top and draining from the hole at the bottom, but that's just fluid from the healing process (the stuff that would turn into a scab anywhere else on your body). I still don't want to eat solid food, because I'm afraid I'll tear my tongue more, but I'm not worried that it's infected anymore. I think I'll try the sea salt idea. I rinse with an alcohol-free medical oral rinse.

i just got mine 4 days ago, and it's the same way :D i was kinda scared to and i went to my piercer and she said that it was strange, but that she thought it was just where the ball was resting on my tongue. she thought it was strange because it wasn't very swollen, but she said that happens when it swells and that it probably was swollen during the night. :D Don't worry and congrats on the new piercing :D

its been about 2weeks and now my tonge pierce looks different,it looks like it has chicken pots with something white or yellowish around it,to me it looks infected and if it is how i get rid of it? please help me so when i do ill take it off...

ok i don't know but i got my tongue pierced this past friday.. everything was fine that day and it bleed a little when he first pierced it... but other than that its only swollen a little bit and i dont have much problem talking. now... on saturday, my throat started getting sore and it hurt to swallow... also, it feels like pain is radiating from my ear to my jaw. its now monday and everything is still there... but now the left side of my neck kinda hurts... i just realized that by lightly tapping on it a minute ago. ive been freaking out alot since i got it done cause ive been thinknig that ill somehow get an infection... but i honestly dont know what to do... ive been rinsing alot with diluted alcohol free crest pro health and been careful eating or whatnot. the very first day i started eating solid foods.. which was probably really stupid of me. also, i keep smoking... ive cut down but he also said to rinse with water everytime i smoke or eat. i need help guys... please?

i had a whitey yellow lump on my tongue and thought it was a infection so i just washed my mouth out with salt water about 4 times a day and it went in a bout 3 days so no worries even if you do get a infection just keep rinsin out with hot salt water make sure its from your kettle so its sterolised! or it could go worse.

if your tongue is infectide dont worrie because i think mine was a few days after i got mine pierced and all i did was wash my mouth out with salt water 4 times a day and the yellow lump went from my tongue. make sure you boil the water in the kettle first because it sterolisez the water.

all i have to say to everyone who wrote a comment or whatever on this page on this topic is y'all are stupid as hell. READ UP ON STUFF BEFORE YOU DO IT STUPIDASSES.

i got my tongue peircd on saturday afternoon , its now monday night. i was scared mine was infected before reading that last comment , which is nearly exactly what i have. my tongue didnt hurt to much when i first got it done , though it startd getting quite painful that night & the next morning i woke up & it was swolen , with dents from my teeth in it which didnt look very attractive at all. its still swolen now, and its white around the ball which is dented into my tongue also, but its not too painful & im guessing thatll all go away when the swelling goes down ? the thing that got me worried was that white stuff is oozing from the hole underneath , but i think its all okay. ive been eating little bits all day & not really cleaning my mouth out properly so imma try do a better job tomorow & hope everything goes smoothly .

i had my tongue pierced on saterday day time and its not tuesday night , ive got huge teeth marks deep into it all the way round the edges and its very swollen :( , and theres a funny taste in my mouth that i cant seem to get rid of . and theres a whitey yellowy around my tongue . anyone know what this means ?

I got my tongue pieced 18 days ago. I just woke up and it was bleeding.. Not bad but i just rinsed my mouth out with alcohol free mouth wash. Also this past sunday ( today is thursday) i went to a tattoo/pierce shjop and bought a shorter barbell and the piercer assisted me in changin it out. But ever since it has been hurting slightly. I have no discharge or swelling but just mild occasional bleeding and some pain with discomfort. I also still have a noticable crater around the piece site. Can someone help me.

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so i got my tongue peirced on monday night and its four days later and my ear hurts my throat hurts and its hard to talk at times and hurts as well and there is a big indentation at the top what should i do???????????????? ive been cleaning it alot

I don't understand why people want to hurt themselves and suffer for days by getting their tongue pierced.

how do i get rid of my tongue ring infection

okay.. my tongue is freakin the shitt out of me.. im scaredd to death that it is infectedd!! okay ive had it for 2 weekks and yeah it was swollen at first but my whole under the ball looks almost as big as the ball to my tongue ring,, well some people say its just the ball resting on my tongue.. well one morning i woke up and there was like a sring of blood coming form the whole.. i was scaredd. then now last weeken i drank and well i have m=no more pain or anything i can eat and talk normal.. but when i drank my tongue started getting more swoll and like a pinkish circle around my tongue ring with still the huge wholee... idk.. im scaredd its infected and thinking of just talking it out.. cuz now like puss is coming out its still a little swollen and,, eeelll.. idk ive already tried both listerine && sea salt water... ughh!!