Dangers Of Body Piercing,Tattooing
Half of university
undergraduates have some type of body piercing, and 17 percent have suffered
a medical complication as a result, a study in the journal Mayo Clinic
Proceedings indicates.
The report also
notes that 23 percent of students with tattoos experienced medical problems.
Tattoos are particularly prevalent among male varsity athletes, they authors
said. "Body art is prevalent among undergraduate university students, and
there is significant incidence of medical complications among students
with piercing," said lead author Dr. Lester Mayers of the Pace University
Athletic Department’s Division of Sports Medicine.
"If our prevalence
and complication rates are representative for this age group, these morbid
events comprise a considerable demand on and cost to the heath care system."
In female students,
the most popular piercings were of the navel, 29 percent, and of
the ear, 27 percent not including earlobes. In males, a third of the piercings
involved the ear.
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