WhitneyContracting Hepatitis from Getting a Tattoo
March 10th 2009 13:53
When blood is involved, you can contract Hepatitis, which is scary if you are looking into getting your first tattoo. But, what you need to worry about is making sure that you find a reputable tattoo shop so that you don't have to worry about contracting Hepatitis.
But, anyway so that you know a little more...
You can get vaccines for Hepatitis A and B, but there isn't a vaccine for Hepatitis C, which is transmitted by blood contamination. Hepatitis C is very contagious because it can live outside of the human body for several days, thriving on various objects to include the needles and the ink, which is why a reputable tattoo shop will have methods of preventing HCV (Hepatitis C).
Reputable tattoo shops and tattoo artists will use new, disposable needles with each new tattoo. They will never reuse a needle on you that they have previously used on another customer. The best way to know that the needles are new, is to have the tattoo artist open the the package in front of you.
As for the ink, you want to make sure that you see the tattoo artist pour the ink from the bottle to small, disposable containers. You want to make sure that the ink is new, and that the artist did not use that same container of ink on the previous customer. Leftover ink should always be thrown out.
Other methods of precaution include a clean environment and the tattoo artist wearing gloves.
If all precautions are met, there shouldn't be any worries as to contracting Hepatitis or any other disease that is transmitted via contaminated blood.
But, anyway so that you know a little more...
You can get vaccines for Hepatitis A and B, but there isn't a vaccine for Hepatitis C, which is transmitted by blood contamination. Hepatitis C is very contagious because it can live outside of the human body for several days, thriving on various objects to include the needles and the ink, which is why a reputable tattoo shop will have methods of preventing HCV (Hepatitis C).
Reputable tattoo shops and tattoo artists will use new, disposable needles with each new tattoo. They will never reuse a needle on you that they have previously used on another customer. The best way to know that the needles are new, is to have the tattoo artist open the the package in front of you.
As for the ink, you want to make sure that you see the tattoo artist pour the ink from the bottle to small, disposable containers. You want to make sure that the ink is new, and that the artist did not use that same container of ink on the previous customer. Leftover ink should always be thrown out.
Other methods of precaution include a clean environment and the tattoo artist wearing gloves.
If all precautions are met, there shouldn't be any worries as to contracting Hepatitis or any other disease that is transmitted via contaminated blood.
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