ÿþ<html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body background="Images/background.jpg"> <table border="1" width="95%" cellpadding="10" align="centre"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <img src="Images/skin.jpg" height="129" width="316" alt="Home"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="15%"> <b><font face="Berlin Sans FB"> <a href="index.html"> Home </b> </a> <br><br> <a href="tattoo.htm"> <b>Tattoos</b> </a> <br><br> <a href="piercing.htm"> <b>Piercing</b> </a> <br><br> <a href="aftercare.htm"> <b>Tattoo Aftercare</b> </a> <br><br> <a href="paftercare.htm"> <b>Piercing Aftercare</b> </a> <br><br> <a href="trisks.htm"> <b>Tattoo Risks</b> </a> <br><br> <a href="risks.htm"> <b>Piercing Risks</b> </a> <br><br> <a href="contactus.htm"> <b>Contact us</b> <br><br> <a href="links.htm"> <b>Links</b> <br><br> </td> <td valign="top"> <h2><font face="Berlin Sans FB"><b>Risks-Piercing</b></h2> Planning on getting your body pierced? Before you go on, it is important for you to know about the risks associated with it. Body piercing does involve a certain set of health hazards along with it, which are necessary for you to know. <br><br> <b><big>What are the risks of body piercing?</big></b><br><br> Your body can reject the jewellery as it is a foreign element. <br> Your skin can get allergic reaction from the solution used to cleanse the skin before piercing.<br> Your skin can also be allergic to ancillary products used for piercing like, hydrogen peroxide, soap and even antibacterial products.<br><br> If you do not have a body piercing from a professional body piercer, there are increased risks for bacterial infections. It is important for him to use the best and most professional piercing techniques. Carelessness and lack of aftercare can cause serious infection.<br><br> Body piercing done using blunt force like the use of instruments for piercing the ear increases the probability of bacterial infections. This is the main reason among others, why piercing guns are not used to pierce any other part of your body, except the earlobes.<br><br> Going swimming with a new piercing during the healing period can cause protozoan and parasitic infections. Body piercing also offers you a great risk of getting scars and even keloid formation, a kind of outsized scar.<br><br> Swelling is other common risk. In other serious cases, piercing can actually block the place for air and can cause eternal damage of nerves. If you choose a wrong kind of jewellery for piercing and if it s too little, it can cut off the supply of blood.<br><br> Another major risk that is always blatant is any mishap with a fresh piercing. It can occur when the jewellery gets entangled unintentionally with any external object. It usually happens when your jewellery has loose parts or dangles.<br><br> The other most serious risks associated with a piercing of any body part are allergic reactions, infections and damage to nerves and excessive bleeding. <br> It can be due to infected piercing equipment, which is not sterilized properly.<br> If the hygiene standards are not met properly, you are at the direct risk of blood born diseases like, Hepatitis B and C and HIV, to name a couple. They can be transmitted to others also with the use of dirty needles. Hepatitis is known for buoyancy of infecting. Some of the strains can even keep up to eight hours on infected instruments in room temperature.<br><br> Many harmful bacteria can be injected in your skin during piercing. It may or may not develop instantly. Bacterial infections can occur in cysts that can further develop as toxic shock syndrome or septicemia, if not treated properly. <br><br> They can be serious and fatal in some cases.<br><br> Chances are for bacterial infections to develop later, even after healing. If the piercer does not wash his or her hands and even does not use gloves and sterilized equipment, there is an increased probability of health hazards.<br> Apart from the whole act of body piercing being risky, each piercing can have its own risk:<br><br> " The tongue piercing can cause a chipped tooth as the jewellery can actually wear off the tooth enamel. It can even cause you a speech impediment when it will obstruct you making some particular sounds. The tongue is the area of the body which has a lot of blood veins, so the pierced tongue can suffer from extended bleeding and grave loss of blood. Tongue piercing also has a high risk of bacterial infections because your mouth is the place for bacteria already.<br><br> " Self piercing is dangerous above all as it makes the whole process unprofessional and full of carelessness. You may know the correct process, but you are unlikely to have the right equipment and knowledge to execute the right hygiene procedures to do away with all the risks of getting an infection or scars.<br><br> Body piercing is really a big decision. All that is written above is not to discourage you from body piercing, but to warn you from all the risks you are going to embrace. After you know all the risks, we hope that you are in a state to make decision that is best for you.<br><br> If you still decide to get body piercing, visit a reliable piercer, get the right jewellery and be hygienic and cautious for all the symptoms of infection. If performed properly, the risks of body piercing can be minimized.<br><br> </tr> </table> </body> </html>
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