Author

Claudia Santos

A staff nurse and licensed piercer, Claudia Santos, RN, splits her week between a hospital float pool and a local piercing studio. She previously took emergency department float shifts alongside her studio appointments. Santos earned an associate degree in nursing from the Community College of Rhode Island.

Why Does My Piercing Hurt? Signs of Irritation vs. Infection Skin & Hair
Why Do I Have a Bump on My Belly Piercing?Skin & Hair
How to Heal Infected Stretched Ears Without Downsizing Skin & Hair
Why Does My Ear Piercing Keep Getting Infected?Skin & Hair
Why Hasn’t My Piercing Healed After a Year?Skin & Hair
How to Help an Infected Cartilage Piercing Heal Skin & Hair
Why Does My Piercing Sting? Causes and What to Do Skin & Hair
Why Do My Cartilage Piercings Still Hurt?Skin & Hair
How to Get Rid of Smelly Ear Piercings Skin & Hair
How Long Should You Wait to Change Your Industrial Piercing?Skin & Hair
Why Is My Nose Piercing Bleeding and What Should I Do?Skin & Hair
How to Tell If a Helix Piercing Is Infected Skin & Hair
How to Safely Numb Your Ear Before a Piercing Safety
Why Is My Piercing Hole Black?Skin & Hair
How to Get Rid of a Belly Piercing Bump Skin & Hair
Do Eyebrow Piercings Always Reject?Skin & Hair
Do Cartilage Piercings Heal? The Full Timeline Skin & Hair
Can Nipple Piercings Reject? Signs, Causes, and Prevention Reproductive
Why Is My Piercing Hard and What Should I Do?Skin & Hair
How to Get Rid of a Nipple Piercing Bump Skin & Hair
How to Tell If Your Eyebrow Piercing Is Rejecting Skin & Hair
How to Heal an Infected Helix Piercing Skin & Hair
Can You Clean Piercings With Contact Solution?Skin & Hair
Why Is My Belly Piercing Pussing and What Should I Do?Skin & Hair
My Rook Piercing Is Swollen—Should I Be Worried?Skin & Hair
Why Is My Tragus Swollen With No Piercing?Eyes & ENT
Why Is There a Ball in My Earlobe After a Piercing?Skin & Hair
How to Get Rid of the Bump on My Nose Piercing Skin & Hair
How to Get Rid of a Keloid on an Eyebrow Piercing Skin & Hair
Why Is My Earring Hole Crusty?Skin & Hair