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Townsend is one of many young adults sporting inked body art. Researchers estimate that about four in every 10 young adults aged 18 to 29 have at least one tattoo. More than half of them have two or more. As tattoos have become more common, scientists have begun to study their health impacts. This body art might appear cool, but it can pose risks.
Other people may have trouble getting certain medical tests after a tattoo. And not everyone is as thoughtful as Annabelle Townsend when selecting their design. Many people get inked on a whim — and later want that permanent art removed. In people who heal well, getting a tattoo may prime their germ-fighting immune systems for action — and in a good way. When a person gets a tattoo, a needle injects ink into the skin, over and over and over again.
When a tattoo is done right, that ink winds up in the dermis. This layer of skin lies beneath the epidermis , the outer layer that we see. The epidermis is always growing new skin cells and shedding old ones.
If tattoo ink were placed there, it would last only about a month before disappearing. The dermis also is home to nerve endings, so you can feel each needle prick. So things can get messy as ink is injected into the dermis. After all, getting a tattoo means putting foreign particles in the body. The immune system should respond by removing them — or at least trying to. But the molecules of tattoo ink are too big for those cells to deal with.
Organic chemicals contain carbon. The inks used for tattoos can be either inorganic or organic, notes Tina Alster. Inorganic inks are made of minerals, salts or the metal oxides found in nature. Metal oxides are molecules that contain metal atoms and oxygen atoms. Inorganic inks can be black, red, yellow, white or blue.
Organic colors contain lots of carbon and hydrogen atoms. The ones used in tattoo ink are synthetic, meaning manufactured.
Organic inks come in a much wider array of colors than do the inorganic ones. Tattoo inks are made to be injected into the skin. But the pigments that give these inks their color were made for printer inks or car paints — not people, Alster explains.
The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, makes rules about what kinds of colors can be added to food, cosmetics and drugs. So no ink is currently approved for use in human skin, Alster notes. That may change, however. FDA currently is studying the health effects of tattoo inks.
The reason? More and more people have been reporting harmful reactions to them. This usually is due to an allergic reaction to some ingredient in colored inks, such as chromium or cobalt, Alster says. Red and yellow inks are most likely to cause such reactions, she says. But green and blue can cause reactions, too.
In some people, the skin around a tattoo may gets bumpy or scaly. Inflammation is the pain, swelling and redness that can accompany an injury. Those created with metal inks can interfere with an MRI scan. Are tattoos bad enough to avoid completely? Smith does try to raise awareness about the potential of tattoo health hazards. Considering that some tattoo inks have the same hardcore ingredients used in printing and car paint, the answer is unsurprising: chemicals that cause cancer.
Tattoo pigment can contain heavy metals like mercury, cadmium, lead and arsenic. Also in the mix: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and aromatic amines. All of these hazardous substances carry the possible risk of:.
Make an informed decision. He cites the actions taken by the European Union , which has found enough of these harmful chemicals, about 4, in total, to validate restricting or banning them entirely. To Smith, holding off on allowing inks that have known toxins makes sense. I think we have a responsibility to the public to follow the E.
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