Anemic Angel

The Dangers of self-piercing or home done tats and piercings

The thought of boiling water sterilizes objects is not true. Heat of at least 250°F needs to be achieved. Water vaporizes at 212°F. Alcohol doesn’t kill everything. Neither does bleach, peroxide, shit like that. Plus, home piercing is never safe. Bacteria, viruses, etc, can live in your carpet, on any surface, etc.

That’s why piercing and tattoo parlors… have to go through a spore test, to see if their shop is sterile enough to pierce and tattoo in.

When you get a modification, you are essentially causing trauma to the body. You’re poking a hole, many holes, taking off strips of flesh, what have you, depending on the mod. That means there’s raw, open flesh exposed. Do you really want to shove a needle that’s probably teeming with bacteria, through a lip into raw flesh?

Or let someone who’s using gloves that haven’t been kept in a hospital like setting tattoo you and put those gloves on the raw skin?

Just think before you poke or ink. It could save your life.

If more people knew about the dangers, tragedies like this could be avoided. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354696,00.html It’s a story about Zeke Wheeler, who was 15 when he pierced his own lip and got a staph infection that almost killed him.

So please, stop killing yourselves (and those little pieces of me) and don’t home pierce.

-longgonesanity:

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