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| Hospital advisory on eve of AIDS Day |
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With tattoos and body-piercing becoming a popular trend, especially among the youth these days, Fortis Hospital issued an advisory on the eve of World AIDS Day outlining the precautions one should take to avoid getting HIV/AIDS while getting at tattoo or a body-piercing done.
According to Dr K.M. Kapoor, Senior Consultant & Head, Cosmetic Surgery, the body piercing procedure involved the insertion of jewellery the insertion of jewellery into an opening made in the ear, eyebrow, nose, tongue, navel or other area of the body. Similarly, needles were used to make tattoos on the skin.
Talking about the risks of piercing, Dr Kapoor stated that body piercing was traditionally done without anesthesia. The practitioner pushed a hallow needle through a body part and inserted a piece of jewellery into the hole. Piercing guns were also used but they were difficult to sterilize. Whenever the skin was punctured, there was a possible risk of infection. If the equipment used to do the piercing was not disposable and contaminated with the blood of an infected person, a person could contract a number of serious blood-borne diseases. These include HIV, the virus that causes AIDS-Hepatitis B and C, tetanus and tuberculosis.
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