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 In France, where many of our Russian people with interest looking towards taking a priori all, no matter what happened, until now there was no law regulating the sanitary standards of fashion services such as tattooing and body piercing. Things came to a hepatitis C one customer after the piercing of the ear, and almost to amputation after a second on his body tattoo ink contaminated with bacteria.
The sensuous expression for some, provocative - for others, tattoos and piercings are a progressive success and apply now to a few hundreds of thousands of times a year.
The artist of the human body is not up to the present time no recognized professional status, and their instructions are not surrounded by any sanitary regulations. This is an issue that continues to bother as normal power, both of the tattooists and their clientele.
Such as ancient as humanity itself, body painting had and still have their supporters. Even if fashion goes, they all still remain. It does not matter, we are talking about tattoos or piercings, these writings beauty applied to the body, with all the consequences that involve a health hazard. But today, to proclaim himself a tattoo artist may each, precisely because there is no professional regulation and health standards for the profession as it does not exist.
Risky practice!
Tattoos and piercings are has long been a subject of controversy among physicians. And there is a reason for it! Indeed, these acts may be hazardous to health. The potential risk of local transmission of bacteria (staphylococcus, streptococcus, pyocyaniques) is huge. Much to the happiness of these infections in most cases complacent, except for those rare occasions when the tattoo leads to sepsis and endocardites (inflammation of the heart muscle). Not forgotten, and viral infections (HIV infection, VHC and VHB), for lack of antiseptics, or transferring them from a specialist and his client, and vice versa.
If a single case of transmission of hepatitis C recently reported in the media as a result of ear piercing, the risk of this procedure was recognized as important enough to follow a rule: eliminate the taking of blood from any donor who would be pierced at least one year prior to blood sampling procedures.
In the case of tattoos, sanitary risk also comes from the colors in which the quality and origin have not yet been determined by any standards. It will be necessary, however, to expect the new case that resulted in hospitalization for infection after bone to contamination by a fungus (Acremonium fungi), to the French Agency of Sanitary Security of healthy products (Afssaps) has banned the production and use of paints incriminated brands.
Administrative confusion.
This case happened, by the way, a few days after the French legislation for the first time drew attention to the tattoo products, inserting their definition and resolution provided for their use in the code of laws on health care. But again, nothing new has been said about the professional status of artists (as they define themselves), as well as the regulation of the health of the practice.
While doctors and other health professionals have a clear and accurate health directives, tattoo and piercing professionals do not have any sort of claims, despite the fact that they themselves are well aware of the dangers of this situation.
According to the questionnaire sanitary safety, health inspectors carried out 3 years ago among tattoo artists, many of them acknowledge the existence of serious gaps in the hygiene plan their work. Most of them want to have, and ask for more information on the issue of sanitary precautions.
For the democratization of tattoos and increase the number of small salons, the National Union of tattoo artists has decided to take the matter into their own hands, creating a few years ago own insurance company, in collaboration with surgeons and dermatologists.
A long-awaited regulation of labor tattooists developed under the control of public charity of the Paris hospitals would have to enter into force at the end of 2005. The only thing though: the directive of the Chief sanitary health management have been developed without consultation by the tattoo artist.
"None of us was invited to participate in the discussion of the project under the pretext that our profession is not recognized by law" - explains Sandra Tuvenot, a member of the National Union of tattoo artists.
If experts Tattoos and body piercings are thinking that they have an opinion, it is because that these workers tend to leave their greater skepticism about the future of this profession than optimism. Some of these directives will be obliged, for example, every tattoo artist continue to support education in the rules of antiseptics, and costly follow strict rules of registration (application to the Prefecture), the common examinations in the use of sterile material.
"The main problem of these directives - a costly operation, the consequence of which would be finalized only small shops that will drive tattooists underground" - says Sandra Tuvenot.
But customers still can be more relaxed under these new rules governing the health of the tattoo, the quality of paints and tools.
Although pobedenee customers can now afford only some basement room "Mama Africa", where it will cause an exotic tattoo on the shoulder is not less exotic colors ...
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