What can I replace with salt to clean my ear peircing?

[Anonymous]

I searched google for ways to clean my newly pierced ears. They told me to use a cleaning solution to clean my pierced ears. But the person who pierced my ears didn't tell me to buy or give me any solution :( and when I googled for other ways to clean my ears, they told me to use sea salt + water. And the problem is, I dont have any sea salt at home now :( I only have himalaya salt (natural salt) What should I do now? Should I just use only water to clean my ears? Any tips and advice for ear piercing? I'm really new to this and don't know what to do :(

[Anonymous]

So you need salt and you have salt, use the salt...

Sea salt and table salt and Himalayan pink salt are all pretty much sodium chloride crystals just with different trace amounts of other stuff - it's the sodium chloride that will act as a mild antibacterial so just use your expensive fancy salt if that's all you have

[Asker]

I guess that's the best solution but wikihow said "Do not use table salt, which contains iodine." And I've checked Himalaya salt. They contain iodine.

[Opinion Owner]

The amount of iodine in table salt is ridiculously tiny, it's meant for eating (trace amounts of iodine are added to salt as otherwise some people wouldn't get enough in their diets and would get goitres)

You're planning on diluting the salt in water and applying it topically. The amount will be infinitesimal. Besides people put significant amounts of iodine on wounds all the time - iodine is like the active ingredient in Betadine.

Anyway if it concerns you still, just use it as a temporariy solution until you can buy something you feel will work better (even if it's not medically better, I'm sure that buyiong something you trust to work will make you feel better and that is important)

[ATPPC]

Salt should be fine. Or hydrogen peroxide. Maybe iodine... stains your skin for a while (you can use alcohol to get it off I think) but works just as well as peroxide and doesn't spoil...

Water won't do much. Make sure to dry the area afterwards because bacteria/fungi love moisture.

[AzureGirl]

Just use peroxide. Or you can just buy actual solution from anywhere that does piercings.

[Asker]

😲 i dont have something like that. Yeah, I guess but I have to clean the piercing today and over here at my place it's already nighttime. So I won't be going out anymore until tomorrow. 😲

[9mfeo]

The salt you have should work. Even iodized salt would work.

[Intraluminal]

Himalayan salt is fine. It used to be sea salt before the Himalayas were puched up.

[Walls_and_Doors]

Hydrochloric acid.