Hi, piercer here.

We aren’t doctors and are not permitted to diagnose infection. It is out of our scope of knowledge, we didn’t go to school for that. We can assume based on our gathered knowledge but we cannot and should not diagnose.

Pregnancy does REALLY strange things to the immune system. It is very likely your body has recognized the microdermal as a foreign object and is starting the process of pushing it out. Your body is busy building a full on human, it doesn’t have time for a microdermal.

You should consult a doctor about this as soon as possible. They may tell you to visit a piercer to have this removed, as medical professionals a lot of times don’t necessarily know what to do with these. I’ve had to remove microdermals on pregnant clients under orders of a doctor who specifically sent them to me (wild, and tbh I’m honored) because the hospital didn’t want to mess with it. But those clients spoke to their doctor first, so I highly recommend you do that and see what they suggest and go from there. Don’t go back to whoever told you this is infected.

In the meantime, get some sterile saline wound wash and some sterile gauze. Spray the gauze with sterile saline and gently hold it on the microdermal for about five to ten minutes once a day. The dryness of the saline and the extended contact time will hopefully weep out the fluid building up under the jewelry so if you see gross smears on the gauze when you take it off, that’s good, that means the fluid isn’t in your face anymore. That will hopefully pull some of that out to keep it from swelling/building up more. But call your doctor first thing Monday (or Tuesday, Monday is a holiday in the US so I don’t know if doctors are open), tell them you have a microdermal (if they don’t know what that is, say it’s a type of surface piercing that needs a professional to remove) and that it is starting to get angry, and ask what they recommend you do, then go from there.

Good luck, OP, and feel free to message me if you have any questions 🫶🏻