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A thing I find interesting is that autopsies are finding that folks with tattoos end up with stained lymph nodes as the tattoo ink gets spread through the lymph
by iamacyborg 5y ago
A thing I find interesting is that autopsies are finding that folks with tattoos end up with stained lymph nodes as the tattoo ink gets spread through the lymphatic system.
As tattoos have become hugely popular in the last couple decades I wonder if we’ll start seeing more health problems associated with the chemicals used in inks.
- kaba0 5y agoInk is known to be found in the blood for a bit of time after the tattoo (people can’t even donate for a year after where I live?). So it is not that surprising to find it in lymph nodes whose very purpose is to accumulate foreign things in the body and possibly make them “meet” with immune cells. Also, tattoos are not completely static structures, they are tiny ink droplets that do get collected by our body — we are just unable to handle a certain size of them. Tatto removal works exactly by breaking up the ink to smaller pieces which our cells can handle.
- iamacyborg 5y agoIt used to be 12 months in the UK for giving blood after getting a tattoo too, but they changed it fairly recently to be after 4 months.