Your tattoo is leaking into your body’s lymph nodes: study

Factually, you are correct! But, doesn't it make sense to eliminate as many NEEDLESS dangers as possible? Of all the potentially health-endangering things you listed, AVOIDING getting tattooed would be easier than any of them!

Consider: you may not be able to avoid pollution. You may not be able to avoid a life with stress in it. Sex issues may drive you crazy (it's a very strong instinct in nearly all of us). You may have car wrecks in the 21st-century, you may also be susceptible to drinking and smoking. BUT, who in hell is under any addictive pressure to go out and get a TATTOO...?!

 

Disease transmission by tattooing is because of lazy or ignorant tattoo 'artist'. When done properly, the chances are nil. Needles and tubes are sterilized in the package, use once and toss. Ink caps are small plastic cups. Also disposable. If an 'artist' stops to refill ink into a used cap (especially if they dont remove gloves) they are either ignorant or dont care.

Caps are cheap but if you try to refill one, now your ink bottle is touching used ink and blood and plasma. A professional will remove the gloves and use brand new ink caps, always.
Basically, think cross contamination in your kitchen, handling raw chicken. If you walk in a shop and it does not smell clean, turn around and leave.

 

Because they want to....

same reason people go out and eat 5000 calories in burgers and beers, and have huge guts hanging over their belts on the road to an early death.

 

My second cousins' mother died and she got a tatoo of her mother's face. The tattoo is a great likeness of one of my favorite cousins, who passed away from cancer too young. It's sad to think that in an effort to feel close to her mom, she's raising her own chances of getting cancer.

 

Everything you say is backed up by facts, FatBack, but it still doesn't touch on the other facts that well-conducted studies are revealing now about components in the ink itself, and the effect that these ingredients have on the body's lymph system.

You can handle deadly poison in the most rigorously sanitary, hygienically-clean manner possible, and use it in professional procedures conducted in absolutely sterile clean-rooms -- but poison is still poison!

 

In all my years, I saw two people with a reaction to red ink, both formed a keloid type scar. I myself have an area of green ink that is also black light ink. For several years, anytime I got hot and sweaty, it would temporarily raise up, keloid like. Needless to say, i never shot any more of that ink.

I would always take the time to explain to the customer, what sterile procedures and cross contamination precautions i was taking. Most could have cared less. Had they patronized and unscrupolous artist, he could be neglecting all those cautions right in front of them and they'd not even notice..

Even when the most rigorous precautions are followed their is always a possibility of infection after the fact, however slim, when breaking the skin. Tattooing being a minor surgical procedure.

The lymph node angle is news to me but not surprising.
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AFAIK, there is no regulation of the content of ink.

When I first started it was homemade ink I used on myself. Burning a candle of vaseline with a high wick and caputuring the soot in a can and mixing with alcohol and water, I would think that would be pure carbon. Anyhow, what will be will be, to late for me. About 30% of my body is inked.

 

Tats are highly personal items, though it is quite easy to spot the ones that were obviously conceived in an act of too much partying. However, tattoos are generally a message that is conveyed to society or the wearer.

I once spotted an interesting pair of tatoos on a young female at a store. It was a series of numbers that was clearly a geographic coordinate, so I asked her about it. She explained that the left coordinate was the place where she buried her mother, and the other one was where her daughter was born. I was impressed.

While one could easily dismiss a typical tramp stamp, never assume all tattoos are meaningless. Ask, rather than judge.

 

Well, I can tell from the way that the posts dropped off that THIS topic is about as popular as the proverbial "turd in a punchbowl".

I guess the take-away is that if you've already been 'tatted', get tested often for cancer in your lymph nodes and 'hope for the best'. DON'T get any MORE of the damned things!

And, if you're one of the fortunate people who didn't slavishly jump into this stupid, mindless fad, then good for you!

 

Body art should be left to the tribes in the Amazon and Africa. I don't have a tattoo and never will. When you're old, blokes will have a blurred splodge where the tattoo is/was and with the females, it'll have gone south several inches and distorted.

They may look nice short term but certainly not long term. My eldest son is covered in tattoos but my youngest has an old head on young shoulders and vowed never to get one.

 

I've said this for years. Tattoos are "pre-cancerous lesions" (all lesions are scars and all scars can be sites where cancer begins, but especially where a foreign substance has messed with the melanocytes, and how do you think tattoos are permanent since the non-natural pigment goes away when the skin is renewed ?)

And meanwhile we have these young girls who won't even go outside on a nice sunny day for fear of melanoma when they're 60 putting really bad art on the most beautiful thing god ever created, a woman's unaltered skin. Like flames on a Ferrari, it makes you weep.

I'm sorry but when I was coming up most women with tattoos had more of them than teeth. Now we have these girls who look like they're wearing sweaters all the time. Da Utes are crazy I tells ya.