Meanwhile, members of all strata of the population Tattoos wear, such as the University of Leipzig turned in your survey with 2500 participants in year 2016.
Prostitutes, convicts, or sailors with them, adorned the painted skin is long since arrived in the middle of the society.
Especially popular Tattoos are in the 25 – to 34-Year-olds: The study by the University of Leipzig, according to which every Second one of them is wearing at least one. Likewise, each Second that Tattoos are in Vogue.
Despite the boom in the craft of tattooing in Germany is regulated hardly.
A recognised training does not exist, even in the case of the instruments used and colours, the absence of clear guidance.
For example, a recent audit of the state office for agriculture, food safety and fisheries Mecklenburg-assessed Vorpommern, four out of ten tattoo colors as flawed and potentially harmful to health.
Beware of the color
Tattoo inks are complex chemical mixtures, the pigments except the color, still many other components.
In the case of the samples taken was found in two cases, an increased content of the heavy metal Cadmium in two samples declared additives were negative and, in turn, two colors had an incorrect marking.
A total of up to 100 different substances are available in the color bottles. What do you do exactly in the skin, no one knows.
Since 2009 in this country there is a tattoo-agents-regulation and a so-called negative list, which prohibits several dozen ingredients in Tattoo inks.
However, these were never tested in the skin, the prohibition goes back to negative experiences in the field of cosmetics, hair dyes and textile paints on the skin.
Still problematic is the fact that Tattooing do not require approval. The manufacturer is responsible for the safety of the product itself is responsible.
Car paint under the skin?
Anyone who believes that they are specially manufactured for Tattoo colours are wrong. The pigments are also included in the corrosion products, automotive paints and cosmetics.
Red-blue Blend-a-med-strip, green car paint, or yellow Tattoo-color – is everywhere the Same inside.
Pigments and other ingredients are in a bound Form harmless. UV or laser light makes the however, to disintegrate, resulting in the lymph nodes and accumulate walking. You can reach from there into other organs and cause damage there?
And what is with the added heavy metals: Loosen the skin from the pigments out? Or they may be formed during the Piercing itself by the abrasion of the tattoo machine?
In these cases, Tattoos can be dangerous
Even though every year in Germany alone two million Tattoos are, are reports of damage are rare.
On tattoos, however, should Pregnant women without, people with heart disease, Diabetes or blood clotting disorders.
Also people whose immune system is attacked or suppressed, due to antibiotics or similar means, should be very careful.
Despite the partly contaminated colors, the health consequences but mostly in the borders.
In addition to allergic reactions are not able to inflammation through contaminated color, redness and painful swelling occur, since instead of sterile water used from the tap to Dilute the colours, the tattoo artist, the skin is disinfected sufficiently with a hand lamp, a doorknob or a Cup of coffee shoes touched and then continue to work.
In the last 30 years, only 67 cases of bacterial infections after Tattooing were known.
Healthy skin closes after Tattooing within a few hours, so that no bacteria can penetrate more.
It becomes dangerous however, if Amateur tattoo order sets from the Internet and the tattoo needle is shared with Acquaintances. Here, Hepatitis B and HIV can be the result.
Tattoos also complicate the skin cancer screening
On colorful skin abnormal liver spots or an already developed skin cancer, you can be not so good, and at an early stage.
Tattooed skin should be examined very carefully, especially if the Tattoos are dark and extensive.
Whether Tattoos also predispose to skin cancer, is still unclear. In recent years, the number of tattoos increased – and the incidence of skin cancer has increased.
Least the onset of malignant melanoma has been described on Tattoos, the most aggressive Form of skin cancer.
The experts argue about whether both are causally related to each other together.
The so-called Tattoo-summit where politicians, scientists, and tattoo bandages come in a year, you could put the guesswork to the ink end.
Hygiene, consumer protection and the safety of the colors are to be determined, therefore, soon in a detailed set of rules for Tattooing.
The standards were prepared by the Association of German Organised tattooists, the DIN and experts from twelve EU countries and is soon to enter as soon as possible. A draft is already available.
Sources
- New, Claudia (2017): beauty trend: Tattoos and body hair removal with the German becoming more and more popular, archived from the original on 14.11.2019. https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/schoenheitstrend-tattoos-und-koerperhaarentfernungen-werden-bei-den-deutschen-immer-beliebter-2017-09/
- State office for agriculture, food safety and fisheries Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (2019): tattoo inks, as before, not all in order , retrieved on 14.11.2019. https://www.lallf.de/bekanntmachungen/pressemitteilungen/
- Protattoo (2018): “Under the skin – a framework for tattoos,“ at the 28.11.2018 in the German Bundestag, retrieved on 14.11.2019. https://www.protattoo.org/2018/12/17/unter-die-haut-rahmenbedingungen-fuer-taetowierungen-am-28-11-2018-im-deutschen-bundestag/
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