Don't let the "it" into your body!

Because of the tattoo equipment in direct contact with human blood and body fluids, as long as more than one individual, disinfection does not complete or health are not fulfilled, the spread of infectious diseases will greatly increase the odds.

In addition, the tattoo pigment without disinfection container to save, it will become contagious media. Tattoo, and the public should be aware of the health risks associated with tattoos, tattoo practitioners should also express tattoo to customers may bring health risks.

Award-winning fashion people who love tattoo, acupuncture, in fact, can also be spread hepatitis viruses.

In addition, some families share the razor, toothbrush, etc apparatus used, if one of them with hepatitis viruses, other people were infected risk is greatly enhanced.

Study finds large tattoo infection HCV blood-borne diseases such as skyrocketing

Recently, the International Journal of infectious diseases published in Canada, a new study provides an analysis of Canada, Iran, Italy, Brazil and the United States and 30 countries 124 of relevant studies and found that hepatitis c tattoo lead directly to blood-borne diseases, such as the probability of skyrocketing!

In recent years, increasingly popular tattoo United States 30 years following the crowd, 36% of people have tattoos, Canada 8% of secondary school students who have at least one tattoo, 21% of students do not have tattoos indicated a wish to tattoo.

Tattoos, skin to 80 per second — 150 so that the pigment skin injection.

Because of the tattoo equipment in direct contact with human blood and body fluids, as long as more than one individual, disinfection does not complete or health are not fulfilled, the spread of infectious diseases will greatly increase the odds.

In addition, the tattoo pigment without disinfection container to save, it will become contagious media. Tattoo, and the public should be aware of the health risks associated with tattoos, tattoo practitioners should also express tattoo to customers may bring health risks.

Tidbits: more serious than hepatitis b, hepatitis c and there is no vaccine to the world

The who report pointed out that, as has not developed hepatitis c vaccine, hepatitis b, hepatitis c harm.

Cirrhosis of the liver caused by hepatitis c has become liver disease mortality among the highest of the disease.

Patients with HCV infection, most of them do not appear obvious clinical signs.

In the acute phase is usually mild symptoms or no symptoms. When it becomes chronic, many people in a long time or may not have any symptoms, but virus damage to liver cells have continued to occur until the liver becomes hardened or evil cancer before symptoms may occur. Thus, HCV is regarded as the "silent killer".

Tattoo also propagated allergic reaction, the AIDS virus, hepatitis b, bacterial or fungal infection ...

The study also found that, apart from hepatitis c and other blood-borne diseases, tattoo also propagated allergic reaction, the AIDS virus (HIV), hepatitis b, bacterial or fungal infection and removal of tattoos related illnesses.

In addition, the tattoo pigment containing household paint, computer printer ink or industrial carbon and so on. Some tattoo ink in the toxic substances will enter the body through the blood system in the kidney, lung and lymph nodes.

Researchers urge in China, total market volume introduced "tattoo and infection control guidance for customers, strengthen the" guidelines for the implementation and monitoring of the implementation of the tattoo and tattoo process records system and major health events reporting system, etc.

They also called for work to prevent teen and prison prisoner two big crowd tattoo to prevent hepatitis c transmission. In Canada, 12%-25% of the prisoners in hepatitis c cases and tattoo, and the probability of the general population is only 6%.

Physicians remind:

Tattoo, eyebrow, and even pedicure manicure, are living in "dangerous" fashion.

Used alcohol tampon wipe type "disinfection", certainly not safe!

Users: have the tattoo can be removed?

One of my friends want to join the army, but due to the body with a tattoo is refused, will the tattoo can be removed?

A: the PLA 304 hospital Dermatology Zhang sunset Associate Chief physician is of the view that the tattoo is pierced skin with a needle, and then the color with the wound infiltration of the skin, into different people, animals and other patterns.

The pigments are mostly black (carbon), usually black, also useful yinzhu Indigo, and cinnabar and other colors. Tattoo is on the skin of a person to harm, the likelihood of local infections, such as skin nodule, suppurative disease, or scars, etc. Some patients are allergic Constitution, tattoo also cause allergic reactions, most common mercury, chromium and other compounds that cause dermatitis and tattoo Granuloma. Some clinics, beauty shop conditions extremely poor, disinfection using the tool, there are many people who share a set of tools that will trigger a variety of blood-borne diseases such as HIV, hepatitis b, syphilis, and so on. In the past to eliminate tattoos generally use electrocautery, frozen, chemical corrosion or surgical resection, and so on, a comparison of patients with pain, the effect is not very good, and leave scars.

In recent years, the introduction of advanced laser treatment technology, specialized in the treatment of pigmented lesions, such as tattoo, eyebrow, Nevus, etc, on the skin surface and no damage to surrounding tissues, pigment fade quickly, and don't leave scars, good curative effect.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)