Keep your pierced tongue clean.
Checking from internet before taking tongue piercing is right and good thing to do because it will give you some good information about from those who already have taken piercing to their tongue. Tongue piercing are coming to be more popular and you see those much more these days than few years back. Its still good to make some research about them before rushing in and getting one for you.
Tongue piercing is one of the easiest to perform by professional piercer and it usually have made to middle of your tongue. You can get it into other part too but ill suggest to talk about it to your doctor and piercer first. When thinking of jewelry you should take consider that your tongue will swallow after piercing and it will take up to 6 week to get it into normal state.
There are guidelines what you should do after getting piercing and what you should not do.
NOT. no smoking, kissing, having oral sex.
DO. clean you tongue regularly
Although saliva tries to keeps your mouth clean and sterile it is still recommanded that you add some self cleaning to your tongue. Best tips you’ll get from your piercer and keep in mind that if you do it somewhere else than in professional piercing artist studio it will propably will get infected and cause great pain.