tattoo pigments are subject to hardly any regulations and can contain dangerous substances. Little idea what shows a survey of tattooed and terrifying.
tattoos are for decades in the Trend. Almost half of the German population considers the health of the little risky, reported the German Federal Institute for risk assessment (BfR) on Monday to the results of a survey. Of the already tattooed people think that, therefore, even nearly 90 percent. Very high risks to see only 14 percent of all respondents – the people with Tattoo even just 2 percent.
inflammation and infection as a possible risk due to color pigments
“ however, There is scientific evidence that color can wander pigments of the Tattoos in the lymphatic system , ” said BfR President Andreas Hensel. You could be deposited as nano-particles permanently, and, depending on the structure and impurities are toxic. In addition, metabolic products which might be created with own properties dangerous to health, when the pigments are transported to other organs. For many in the tattooing agents used substances is not yet known how they act in the body.
Of the respondents have indicated 12 per cent – so about one in every eight – to have at least one Tattoo have, or have had, it is called the “BfR-consumer monitor 2018”. As possible risks, especially be inflammation, damage has been called the skin and skin structure infections . Possible problems due to the colors used saw only 12 percent of those who had assessed the health risk as very high, rather high or rather low.
“About the effects of color pigments in the body is currently little known”
Also, the removal of Tattoos with lasers is held by a third of the population and nearly half of the Tattooed for more, or are totally harmless, such as the BfR said. Almost a third believes, therefore, also, that tattoo inks remain completely tattooed body, and still 17 percent, that it is safe to have during pregnancy, tattooing .
Tattoo consist of color pigments and a carrier fluid, a thickener, preservatives, and other substances can. It is used in a variety of individual substances – a list of the currently used substances, there are not to BfR. “On the effects of color pigments in the body is currently little known,” says the Institute. “ Thus, any color can be referred to as the safe .”
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cosmetics controlled much stricter than Tattoo
under current Grbets law, the manufacturers are for the safety of the agent responsible, does not mean it is the BfR, a registration success. the cosmetics, for example, are much more closely controlled – although it applied only to the skin and not directly into the body.
Risky also the Removal of tattoos by Laser is according to the assessment of experts . “The pigment article in the skin burst parts by the action of high temperatures in the smallest individual and are then transported via the lymphatic system,” explained the German society for dermatologic surgery in the summer, at a conference in Dresden. What is the risk of fragmentation in toxic or cancer-causing ingredients out, is currently being explored.
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