i never understood why only some doctors make you take off makeup and piercings and nail polish. is there a real reason?
2007-08-01 13:26:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
Safety.
In case of complications many things can happen. Makeup is made out of some nasty chemicals including arsenic, so getting that into a wound would be nasty.
If you need to go into an MRI then the piercing would be pulled violently out of your body, which is why they don't want you to have those in your body.
Even nail polish can be a problem. It can cover up the fingernails and hide a sign of poor respiration. Remember the sensor that some hospitals put on a patient's finger? It doesn't just check your pulse; it shines a mild laser through your fingernail to check the oxygen level in your blood.
The single greatest complication that arises out of surgery, any surgery is infection. The hospital is a fetid pool of possible infections and some of them kill patients. Doctors will do anything they can to keep the field sterile and to keep containments out. They have enough problems and don't want to worry about the possible infectious substances that your makeup or jewelry could bring into the operating room.
Since the goal is to keep you healthy I wouldn’t argue with them very much, especially since some patients survive the operation, recover and do well, only to succumb to a post operative infection. Some people even die this way, and that is a known complication of even minor surgery.
2007-08-01 13:36:13 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well piercings can get caught in their tools, or have effect on the machines they are using. And nail polish could possibly chip off and end up inside of you. Or doctors might need to check the color of you nails for circulation. And make up is because for sanitary reasons. And besides, you wouldn't want to sleep with makeup on right?
2007-08-01 13:32:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The piercings are because you may have to get an x-ray or MRI during the procedure, and they get in the way. The nail polish is because they check your blood saturation levels with a device that goes on your finger (it doesn't work as well through a polished nail)....I'm not sure about the make up though, probably just want all of your skin to me as clean as possible.
2007-08-01 13:31:18 · answer #3 · answered by Kate 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some instruments used in surgery can react with any type of metal and get hot. Also taking off make up is just a given. Why would you want to wear make up to surgery? Nail polish to check for circulation.
2007-08-01 13:46:31 · answer #4 · answered by S P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a real reason...actually, a number of reasons. Makeup can prevent a secure seal between your skin and an anesthetic mask, It can also obscure important changes in skin tone and color during surgery. There is also a possibility of reactions between makeup and surgical soaps and preps and may prevent dressings from adhering to skin. Nail polish obscures nail color, an early and important clue to oxygenation in the blood and/or circulatory problems. Piercings can interfere with procedures during surgery, such as intubations, and may actually "arc" or make electrical contact with machines in surgery. Surgery is a sterile environment, and the introduction of infective agents that may adhere to makeup and jewelry is a risk that can be minimized simply by removal of these objects and substances.
2007-08-01 13:37:00 · answer #5 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
MOST will make you take off makeup and remove piercings...
If they don't they are not very bright.
It has to do with possibility of infection. Makeup getting into the incision can cause infection. A piercing can harbor infectious bacteria on the post.... even if the piercing itself has fully healed.
A really good (smart) doctor will make you take a shower using surgical scrub soap. and will have Betadine or similar applied to each piercing location before commencing surgery. (if you have a lot of piercings... if you aren't orange... its wrong.)
2007-08-01 13:33:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nail polish should be removed to check for circulation in the nails and makeup should not be worn to keep the body clean in case something should need to be inserted it can be cleaned quicker, lower risk of infection and to check for color.
2007-08-01 13:29:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-09 00:36:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's just more hygenic-hospitals are really strict about that kind of thing, and sometimes the metal in the piercings can mess things up or a tool could get caught on them
2007-08-01 13:30:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes. it's hard to judge skin color (or changes in color) with makeup on. As for the piercings and earrings, you can't have them on if electrocautery is used........it would shoot right through these and burn you.
2007-08-01 13:32:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋