Tongue piercing: the degree of damage

The popularity of piercing among teenagers is enormous, but as far as the practice is safe for health? The history of 15-year-old girl from the UK forces again raise the issue of the dangers of "body modification".

So 15-year-old girl, whose name was not reported, came to the tattoo parlor to make a piercing   language. Perform this procedure specialist made a mistake and touched a vein. Extensive bleeding could not manage to stop, so that the victim rather go to intensive care, where doctors have long fought for the lives of the girls. Miraculously, it was possible to return from the dead.

How typical of such cases? "I have been doing piercings   16 years - says the owner of the salon Venus in New York Maria Tash. - What happened with this girl, it is not a typical story. But it could happen. I would not become a pierced tongue a young client. We work with people 18 and older. Teens serve only if they come with their parents. "

Maria also said that the vast majority of its customers during piercing blood there is no language at all, and the healing process takes place very quickly - in the past month, on average. In contrast, after healing piercing   navel takes six to nine months.

"Infection - this is the biggest risk to the people who have gone through the procedure   piercing and language, - says dermatologist Audrey Kunin Kansas Doctor. - In the area of ​​language is a huge set   bacteria . I am convinced that unlike ear piercing, body piercing in teenagers should take place only with the consent of the parents. "

Moreover, doctors strongly recommend to fans piercing   carefully study the places where they are going to carry out this procedure and do not chase the cheap offers. Alas, in the case of teenagers is the price sometimes comes to the fore.

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