Can I get a tattoo while I'm having my period?

Human skin is divided into the superficial epidermis and the dermis below. The epidermis can be renewed and shed quickly, but the dermis cannot. The pigments in tattoos are generally implanted in the dermis, so they are permanent and cannot disappear on their own. Therefore, removing tattoos is not an easy task. But despite this, many people will get tattoos to increase their rate of returning attention or to get psychological satisfaction. So let’s find out whether it is possible to get a tattoo during menstruation!

Don’t get a tattoo during your menstrual period. Wait until after this period because you need to endure the pain (although it’s not very painful), and your body needs to recover for a while after the tattoo, and you need to apply ointment, after all, it is a physical injury. Your resistance is reduced during your menstrual period, and you are more likely to get infected with viruses after getting a tattoo, so it is recommended to find another time to get a tattoo!

From a medical and health perspective, tattooing is a behavior that is harmful to health.

First of all, using needle tips to pierce or tattoo the human body is undoubtedly destructive to human skin cells and nerve cells, and is an unhealthy behavior. Secondly, if the needles used for tattoos are not disinfected properly, they can spread a variety of diseases and may even spread viruses such as hepatitis B and AIDS. Again, some people with special physical conditions often suffer from skin allergies, pathological reactions or scars after getting a tattoo.

The skin is the first line of defense of the human body. It can resist damage from external mechanical, physical, and chemical stimuli and the invasion of pathogenic microorganisms, and plays an important role in human health. However, tattoos destroy this line of defense, reducing the body's ability to resist various stimuli, and are especially prone to bacterial infections. Most tattoo artists do not understand medicine, and do not perform disinfection strictly or not at all during tattooing. When the needle tip pierces the skin, bacteria and other pathogenic microorganisms are brought into the body, causing various infectious diseases such as furuncle, carbuncle, erysipelas, impetigo, etc. If the wound area is large, the bacteria are highly virulent, or even grow and multiply in the blood, sepsis may occur and be life-threatening.

The disadvantage of tattoos for individuals is that if the tattoo is in a more obvious part, it may be more difficult to find a job because some work units will not hire people with tattoos.

There are many kinds of pigments used for tattoos, many of which are chemical substances. These chemicals can cause dermatitis and allergies when entering the human body, resulting in local itching, pain, burning sensation, numbness, etc. Some can even cause cell mutations, which is a prelude to cancer. Moreover, tattoos are extremely difficult to remove. Currently, no specific medicine has been developed to remove them. The only way is to undergo plastic surgery.

Tattoo pigments used specifically for tattoos contain heavy metals such as lead, chromium and other compounds. These colored chemical synthetic substances are potentially harmful to the human body and are one of the factors that induce skin cancer.

It is best not to do it, as immunity is very low during menstruation. Be careful not to overwork yourself, do not eat raw or cold food, keep a good mood, and pay attention to hygiene. You can eat more sesame oil pork liver in the first few days of your menstrual period to help excrete waste blood. You can eat kidney with sesame oil in the next few days. In addition, sesame oil scrambled eggs with basil is also a good food during menstruation. Red bean soup, longan soup, and eight-treasure porridge are all good snacks, and fermented rice wine boiled eggs are also very good. In the later stages of your menstrual period, you can consider drinking some Shenghua Tang (the kind you drink during menstruation, not the kind you drink during confinement, just ask a Chinese medicine store), which can help to completely flush out the dirty blood in your body.