Infected bellybutton ring?

Question

So I got my belly button pierced about 3 weeks ago (4 weeks ago this Sunday) and it is still somewhat red and slightly sore. Occasionally the piercing pusses light green/or white and gets scabby. 
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​I clean it with H20 Ocean 3 or more times a day and wash it with dove soap in the shower.  
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​I've been told that scabbing is completely normal and that pussing is too but only if it's white or clear. But I don't think it should still be sore and red like this after almost a month. 
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​I understand that a belly ring is a piercing and it needs time but it's getting neither worse or better. 
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It's a bad picture but here it is 
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Mines used to do the same but it stopped after 5 months. I wouldn't advise using dove soap. You're supposed to use antibacterial soap. My piercer person told me to use dial antibacterial bar soap the orange one.

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If you're concerned I'd ask your piercer. I don't know why they used a decorative piece of jewelry (unless you changed it then that's your fault) but that's a no no here. They use the standard curved barbell with plain balls and it's surgical grade. My piercer always says don't touch and move the piercings around it aggrivates it more. I didn't use the h2ocean spray with my belly ring but maybe only do that 1-2 times a day you don't want to over clean. Make sure your soap is non scented and try not to snag it. Dont put anything else on it until you ask your piercer. You put a foreign object in your body, it's going to try to reject it and they say not to put anything on it (no triple antibiotic/neospourn, no peroxide, nothing like that). The greenish pus is questionable because it isn't normal for a healing piercing. Please don't do anything people are saying until you talk to a professional, you don't want to make it worse.

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Make sure you're moving it around while cleaning it, so that the cleanser is getting around the entire naval ring. It's surprising that they didn't use a ring until completely healed.

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That's how mine was. Mine took months to finally heal.

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After cleaning it with an antiseptic put some bacitracin on it for a day.

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Stop cleaning it so much! You need to let it heal. Clean it with the soap in the shower but other than that let it be.

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That's normal my belly button was like that too when I first got it pierced

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Its normal mine took months

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I had a belly button piercing in college and it didn't heal for at least 6 months. It was awful. I ended up having to use like some really strong antibiotic cream or something before it would get better. Mine pretty much looked like yours.

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My belly button piercing was very painful. my body rejected it and pushed it out itself it was awful. It's definitely not worth it.

Infected bellybutton ring?

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