i want to get a tattoo but i just found out that they can give you a std and i want to know how i want to be careful when i get this tattoo. but now that i have learned that i am rethinking what should i do!?!
2007-05-07 05:03:58 · 9 answers · asked by dedei b 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
The only STD you can get from getting a tattoo is hepatitis B and C, and HIV. This only happens if the person is using a dirty needle though that has been used on someone else who has either virus.
Since tattoo instruments come in contact with blood and bodily fluids, diseases may be transmitted if the instruments are used on more than one person without being sterilized. However, infection from tattooing in clean and modern tattoo studios employing single-use needles is rare. In amateur tattoos, such as those applied in prisons, however, there is an elevated risk of infection.
2007-05-07 05:24:53 · answer #1 · answered by Alli 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The only way you can contract an STD from getting a tattoo is if the needle was used for a previous tattoo, if the artist does not wear protection (mainly rubber gloves), or if the artist does uses ink directly from the tube. When getting a tattoo, make sure the place is reputable, and has a valid tattooing liscence. Watch a person get a tattoo and look for these things: the artist wears rubber gloves; the artist uses a new, individually wrapped needle for the procedure; the artist pours out the ink into individual cups or plates. If the artist does not do one of those things, the person getting the tattoo could be at risk for an STD. You can also report them to the bureau that issued them their liscence, becuase they are breaking the regulations of that liscence. As long as the artist follows the forementioned guidelines of tattooing, you should not need to worry about contracting an STD from recieving a tattoo.
2007-05-07 05:17:15 · answer #2 · answered by a6385u 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A tattoo won't support you acquire admire, may not always support you decide upon up chicks, and won't intimidate anybody. You may not get an STD from a tattoo. STDs are like Chlamydia and Gonorrhea. Infections which can be handiest unfold via sexual touch. Instead what you will have to be concerned approximately is HIV and Hepatitis. Those don't seem to be quite STDs, as they are able to be transferred a quantity of methods, adding tattooing. You are too younger to get a tattoo. No respectable artist will contact you, now not in spite of parental consent. Anyone who might tattoo you isn't a dependable man or woman to believe with this sort of assignment. You move insisting on a tattoo at your age and also you might very good turn out to be with HIV. There is the hazard of bacterial illness too; a large hazard if you do not move to any one respectable. Fading too. Any moment price hack that would not care approximately your age frequently is not going to get the intensity correct. Too shallow and it is going to fade rapidly. Don't do it. You're a child nonetheless. Enjoy being a child. No 14 yr ancient is a badass and also you ought to give up looking to be, or you are going to screw your self up.
2016-09-05 11:07:55 · answer #3 · answered by savitz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are risks. The needles must be fresh from the package to be sterile at all. The ink that is used must be as sterile and NEW as the needles. Often, people forget that the ink is as dangerous as the needles are. Another point to keep in mind: Regardless of whatever piece of paper hangs in the office of the person doing the tatoo..................there is not licensing of tatoo people and there is no health monitoring, either. I was offered that piece of paper for myself.........said I was all ready to do tatoos. I have never done a tatoo, I don't have any tatoos, and the fact that this high end place was sending me a paper that looked like a license to do tatoos just scared me, big time! (I sold jewelry, and had ordered some high end products with nice stones from this San Francisco based group). Beware.
2007-05-07 05:43:14 · answer #4 · answered by laurel g 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Getting a tattoo might mean sharing needles and it is possible to contract an blood-transmittable STD, including HIV (which leads to AIDS).
The best way is to go to a parlour that use disposable needles (e.g. they use one needle per customer and have a no-sharing rule). Or insist on the sterilization of their equipment before getting your tattoo (much more risky though).
Talk to other people you know who have gotten tattooed before (especially multiple times) as this means they have a tattoo artist they trust. Talk to them about your concerns. Choose one that comes highly recommended (you want him to be a good artist also besides being a clean one since you'll have to live with the tattoo the rest of your life!).
Good luck!
2007-05-07 05:20:25 · answer #5 · answered by marchcalf 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ugh, the people telling you this are just trying to freak you out.
The only STDs that you can possibly get are Hepititis and HIV. The chances of you getting ANY disease from a tattoo are microscopic, since tattoo parlors are actually monitored REALLY closely by the health department.
The best ways to find out which tattoo parlors in your area are safest are:
1. Ask people who have tattoos about their experiences in different places.
2. Ask to look around the shop before getting anything done. If it looks clean and sanitary, it probably is. If they refuse, then it's not safe. (The employee may insist on looking around with you, and that is actually a good thing! They are making sure you don't tamper with things.)
3. Ask to watch them get the needle ready before giving you your tattoo. If it is taken out of a sanitary package, then you are a-ok. If it is not (and it varies from state to state if they are allowed to re-use needles), watch them sanitize it. You can ask them to sanitize the ones that come out of packages, too, if you're really nervous.
The chance of ANYTHING medically bad happening is so, so, so small.
www.bmezine.com has articles about people's experiences with getting tattoos.
If you live near Lawrence, KS, I know for a fact that one of the best tattoo places in the country is there. It's called Big Daddy's Cadillac.
2007-05-07 05:13:20 · answer #6 · answered by Esma 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes the worse kind HEP C OR B and possible HIV
even though they are "SUPPOSED TO BE STERILE" your taking your chances. i just got back from an osha meeting and they said they have found hepatitis getting into the ink as well.
2007-05-07 17:18:49 · answer #7 · answered by enigma79605 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think its very low.
Just make sure that they are using a new needle and clean equipment.
Ask to watch them get a clean on oyt.
2007-05-07 05:10:38 · answer #8 · answered by wigglemommyof3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure the needle is new right out of the package
2007-05-09 04:58:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋