Getting a tattoo may have some unexpected complications if your immune system isn’t up to scratch, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports. The warning comes after they treated a woman for chronic pain in her left hip, knee and thigh some months after she had been tattooed. She had been taking drugs to dampen down her immune...
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Tattoos can cause infections 15 years later, warn doctors
Tattoos can cause infections 15 years after they were drawn, doctors have warned after a woman was admitted to hospital suffering enlarged lymph nodes. The 30-year-old Australian feared she had cancer after noticing painful lumps in her armpit. However when doctors at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney removed the tissue it was found to...