How long after getting a tongue piercing can I eat normally? Will getting a tongue piercing delay my eating?

A tongue piercing is a piercing on the tongue. It will have a certain impact on your tongue. Will a tongue piercing affect your normal eating? How long will it take to be able to eat normally after the tongue piercing?

Generally, your tongue will feel very swollen during the first three days after getting a tongue piercing. You will not be able to chew and can only eat some liquid food.

However, the specific decision depends on personal constitution. Some people can eat normally the next day after the injection, while others need to recover for a week before they can eat without pain.

Most people have never had a tongue pierced, but if you think about it you will know that it must be uncomfortable. Even a blisters in the mouth caused by inflammation would be uncomfortable, let alone a tongue pierced.

In Europe and America, their diet is different from that in China, so it may not affect eating. However, it is different in China. For example, if you eat crabs, crayfish and other hard-shelled foods, the tongue stud may hurt your mouth. For example, in China, there are sticky foods such as cold cakes, rice cakes, and leaf baba, which are easy to stick to the tongue stud when you eat. Therefore, in China, tongue studs will affect eating.

It is best to eat mainly liquid food for about two days after getting a tongue piercing, because you are not used to having a piercing on your tongue, and your tongue will be a little swollen, so it is more difficult to eat things that need to be chewed, but you won't be too hungry if you drink more milk, porridge, etc. If you recover well, you can eat normally after three or four days, and you will get used to it slowly.

It is important to note that you must rinse your mouth with mouthwash after every meal, which is the kind of mouthwash sold outside, because mouthwash is antiseptic, and you must persist in rinsing your mouth with mouthwash after every meal for at least two weeks. Your tongue will be swollen for about a week after getting your tongue pierced, so you will have a big tongue when you speak, hehe, it will be okay after the swelling goes down.

Generally, when you first get your tongue pierced, you will use a slightly longer piercing because the tongue will swell and a short piercing will feel uncomfortable. When the piercing has almost healed, you can change to a shorter piercing. Otherwise, the long piercing will always feel awkward against the maxillary bone.

When choosing the time to get the tongue pierced, it is best to do it after a meal in the afternoon. Then don't eat when you get home, and go to bed directly at night to avoid the pain of eating on the same day. Eating the next day is indeed much better than eating that day.