Tattoos & Piercings Risks

Glowing tattoos and piercings on the body is one of the latest fashion easements imposed, especially among the young.
The fact follow the fashion, in no case has to forget the health measures to ensure physical health.
To assess the risks arising from the implementation of piercings and tattoos and to contribute to better information and implementation of these practices, the Commission has conducted a study that indicated the possibility of infection, hepatitis or AIDS if used unsterilized syringes.
Non-generating undue alarm, it is important to highlight some of the conclusions of the report of the Commission:
.- In the case of use of syringes is to proceed as rigorously as possible in terms of sterilization and asepsis of all participants in the process concerned.
.- There is a loophole in the use of pigments and dyes in the process of tattooing. Many of them turn out to be industrial pigments have not passed the approval for cosmetic use, so their reaction is not known exactly final.
.- The Commission itself invites all member states to adopt the necessary measures to strengthen controls, raising awareness of potential risks and generate a list of banned products, and implement specific standards of conduct of tattoos or piercings people of a certain risk, such as children, pregnant women and people with chronic heart or lung.
On the other hand, the experts who prepared the report highlights a number of measures that we should all consider. Thus:
.- Making a pre hygiene of the area to be treated not only with soap and water, but also a more active antiseptic.
.- Try not to have any kind of disease or infection at the time of tattooing or performing pearcing. This would imply that the person concerned is a weakened immune system, so that the intervention would be most dangerous.
.- The piercings should be gold and silver, its asepsis is more emotional.
.- The needles have to be disposable and be sterilized at all times