Thinking of getting a tattoo? The ‘boom’ of tattoos took place at the end of the 90s. What until then was seen with bad eyes, on the skin. It has made people explore this technique in different parts of their body, in search of originality or exclusivity. However, there are areas where it is very dangerous to get a tattoo because it can cause serious health problems.. Therefore, it is important to know what are the risks that ink entails in certain areas of the body.
eyeballs
Sight is one of our main senses, the one that offers us a reference to the world and tattooing them is not a good idea. Among the serious health problems it can cause are infections, partial or permanent damage to the eyes, lack of lubrication… It can also cause irritation, inflammation, transmission of diseases… But, without a doubt, the worst consequence is blindness.
Moles
Tattoos should be avoided in mole areas, or on top of them, because the tattoo ink makes it impossible to see if these are normal or not, or indicative that there may be melanomato. This is explained in an interview with Infosalus, Dr. Natalia Jiménez Gómez, from the Dermatology Service of the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid.
Lumbar
On the other hand, the dermatologist maintains that there is a certain fear with tattoos located in the lower back, where the epidural is placedbecause a puncture on a tattooed area can displace pigment particles inward
Of course, the expert points out that there is a way for this to happen, and that is by avoiding direct puncture, making a very small incision with the scalpel, which will cause the ink area to skip, thus preventing the ink particles pass into the marrow.
Mouth
One of the trendy places. Why is it a bad idea? Because it is an area that is always humid and in contact with the teeth, with food and drink, it is very easy for it to become infected.
painful areas
certain parts of the body They are very painful when tattooing and their recovery is usually very distressing: genitals, skull, ribs… Thinking carefully about where to place the tattoo can save us a lot of suffering.
Care after getting a tattoo is very important
Last year the alarms went off before the tattoos and how these could endanger health, warning of the risks they generate in the immune system. However, from the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venerology (AEDV) they called for calm.
“It is well known that, at the moment of getting a tattoo, a good part of the ink lodged in the dermis starts naturally a long and complex journey, sometimes lasting several yearson board the macrophages and destined for the nodes and other organs of the lymphatic system”, he specifies.
However, to date there is no evidence that the presence of these pigments in the lymph nodes causes some type of pathologydespite the high concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PHA) found there,” notes the AEDV.
About the possibility that tattoos may develop an increased risk of canceremphasize that black inks are “potentially carcinogenic” due to their high content of aromatic hydrocarbons, but add that “there is no data to show that this generates more cases of cancer or health problems in real life”.
On the other hand, he points out that care after getting a tattoo is also very important because these can involve superficial skin infections such as impetigo. Then he maintains that the difficulties of each individual would be found, such as being allergic to tattoo inkwhich generally takes place in those tattoos that are fundamentally red, or simply a certain color.