Infected or Allergic to metal bar?

Question

So i got my belly button pierced around two weeks ago, and for about 4 days it’s been super itchy around it… im cleaning it multiple times a day with bactine (i included a picture.) I don’t know how it could be infected so i’m wondering if i’m allergic to the metal bar…. what do y’all think? (i’m also cleaning it with salt water now.)(it also does not hurt at all to move it, it’s not sore)

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It could also be razor irritation or allergic to soap or razor from shaving by it...

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You could be cleaning it too much and drying the skin around the area out that or something in your cleaning agent you’re using could be causing it

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You are supposed to clean it with saline which is salt water, and same water only, any disinfectant besides salt water can dry it out and get rid of the good bacteria healing it and cause an infection. It also looks like you have a rash with hives.... Is the bar stainless instead of surgical steel? If so you're probably allergic, but either way it's red at the hole because it's infected . You need to get that looked at. My ex is a licensed tattoo artist and piercer, and I have my belly button pierced before I met him and it got infected using bactine, I called the shop who told me salt water only. My ex also lectured me later on 😂

Infected or Allergic to metal bar?

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