Tattoos and infections!!??

Have you or anyone you know every gotten a disease directly linked to getting tattooed. I have been in a lot of shops, and I would rather get a surgical procedure in them before some of the E.R.'s that I've seen. I see a lot of those to because my wife is a traveling nurse. What say you?? I know I have not.

Hey BONES, I was just quicker with the keyboard. Oh, well

its true that a lot of tattoo professionals have better hygene than hospitals. Its because we're constantly scrutinised as a "dirty" industry, whereas everyone automatically thinks hospitals are clean.

Many things that show this are things like the strain of Pneumonia found ONLY in hospitals. Ive only heard of one outbreak of infections from studios in our area and it turned out that a disgruntled employee who got fired had compromised the artists ink as "payback" but the lawsuits etcetc got worked out. You really have to be careful who you work with.

A lot of the time a client with "an infection" just freaked out and went to a doctor who didnt know any better and would have healed just the same without the needless antibiotics. Other than that its the smart people touching the dog and wiping their *** before proudly poking and displaying their still oozing artwork done only a few hours before. Its the same stuff with piercings, saying "but i dont play with it" while twiddling your fresh barbell around with a grubby finger!!!!

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No, i've never heard of it. I've been into every tattoo shop in town before I decided which one I would get tatted at. Of course, that decision was paired with the artist's work. But short answer, no.

No I have never heard of or experienced a tattoo infection and I have three tats of my own had four done all together one was a cover. The best thing to do is if your uncomfortable with a shops cleanliness leave and find another. Hepatitis is the only thing I have heard of transmitted by tattoo and it was a dirty shop and my friend should have never gone there.

hey Blair...hope you're well...before I got my tattoo, I looked into all of this too,,,there are only 2 or 4 HIV cases linked to unsterile equipment(they were done in jail). Any infections I've read about were caused by bad aftercare. I don't remember which article I found the info on though..sorry...

Nope never heard of it. I always tell people: A Good tattoo isnt Free and a Free tattoo isnt Good. I would never get inked in a dirty shop. My artist is a professional, you could eat off his floor its so clean. I did once have an allergic reaction. I had previously gotten small tattoo's, used Neosporin. So for my first big one I used the same thing. My tatt broke out in bumps all over it itched like crazy wasnt healing very fast. I went back to the shop, he had never seen anything like it. So I went to the ER... the doc there told me that Neosporin is supposed to be used on smaller concentrated areas, not large ones like the tattoo I had. He said that it was not the first time he had treated a problem like mine, that all tattoo shops should warn about that. I now only use A&D. Oh, and I took some allergy meds and the tatt turned out fine.

You know it, Deb! We have no control over what people do once they leave our studios!!

I myself have never had issues or problems from piercings or tattoos. Of all my friends who have mods, their problems only came from their piercings because they didn't take care of them which was their problem, not the shops/piercers fault.

Most of the shops I've seen and been to have been so spotless and so clean and the artist have been so neat and tidy themselves I doubt anything would happen because of their doing. And the few slightly sub-par shops I've seen were inexcusable and their arguments about the lack of cleanliness were laughable.

As a piercer, I'm incredibly clean and beyond careful and I get calls often about it being my fault for infections or whatever. People will come to me mistaking normal healing behaviors as infections (aka some swelling and normal lymph). Once people leave the shop, usually that's that. Thank God for paper work