Over the centuries, humans have developed amusing behaviors with cultural cognition from various social practices. Actually, society is a name to communal traditions that emerge with fashion and style. All these customs are habitually related to socio-cultural values or also referred to some scientific perception. These behaviors, as a derivative of societal convention, cultural or religious beliefs, or as a structure of daily life, become an integral part of our uniqueness.
Within this very personality, body piercing has become one of the fashionable practices in our societies, prevailing since 5th millennium century back. Obviously, the oldest tradition of body piercing was discovered in the Egyptian mummies and other various practices of ear piercing, nose piercing and genitals piercing are found to have developed from Indian, African and Roman cultures. And today, we see amazing Guinness World Records for permanent or temporary body piercing.
Beside its popular culture, the practice of body piercing is as much controversial as its ancient tradition. In some societies, body piercing has socio-cultural values to be relevant; but, it is generally abused in hippy culture as a precarious practice. The practice is, of course, stylish; but, several specialists suggest that body piercing has various long-term and serious side effects. As the hype of body piercing is growing, several physical and sanitary problems of body piercing have been reported.
If you are curious enough to be acquainted with the harms of body piercing, here is the list of top 10 side effects of body piercing for you.
10. Allergic Retort
Body piercing involves the use of metal piercing tools, which leads to allergic response to metals. Jewelry or ring piercing on several body parts including ear, nose, tongue and belly button is vulnerable to allergy caused by Nickel, Titanium, Niobium and other piercing metals. Studies report that contact eczema, rhinitis, pruritus and urticarial allergy is induced by Nickel. Also, other forms of metal piercing have high tendency of severe allergy to p-Phenylenediamine (PPD). One of the common allergic effects of body piercing is skin lymphocyte. Along with infectious allergies, body piercing also has non-infectious complications of allergic contact dermatitis. There are new developed stainless steel metal piercing tools, but they also aren’t completely free from Nickel, which is most aberrant to allergic reactions.
9. Contagious Infection
Body piercing is trendy, but you would bombshell to know that it is infectious to life-threatening diseases. As body piercing is an organic contrivance, it is terminal at risk to bacterial or viral infections. Contagious infections are again aroused by allergic reactions due to metal piercing. Mostly, tongue and naval piercing can grow micro bacterial infections prominent to deadly diseases including Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. It is reported that the patients of diabetes and skin disease are more likely catch hazardous bacterial infection. It is seen that the infections are generally followed by clinical fever, abdominal pain and formation of abscess. Once the patient catches an infection of cellulitis, the infection has to be cured surgically with antibiotic therapy.
8. Tissue Scraping
Nasal piercing commonly gives a person with a scar tissue, especially, formation of keloid scar. Keloid scar is a nonthreatening type of tumor, which unwantedly grows in the area of damage. Tissue scraping carries a considerable risk of injury often leaving patients with psychological conditions. Tissue scar is also common in ear and lip piercing which generates medical complications of cyst formation, large scars or tears and inflammation. These sorts of complications are not only reported to traditional piercing, but also persist with nontraditional piercing as well. Tissue scraping is usually symptomized with increasing redness, swelling and discharge of blister. People often mistake with scars, crashes and keloids around their piercing as pimples and try to pop that out, but it harmfully leads to bacterial infections.
I have to say, this article is ridiculous! First of all, if you’re going
to talk about an allergic reaction to piercings, how about you use a REAL pic
of an allergic reaction and not some pic of what is OBVIOUSLY a repeated
pattern performed as a form of scarification or other body manipulation and not
in any way related to an allergic reaction to metal. Secondly, as far as
Cellulitis needing weeks of antibiotic therapy, as quoted from WebMD: “Cellulitis is a
common skin infection
that happens when bacteria spread through the skin to deeper tissues. Most
cases are mild and last several days to a couple of weeks.” It goes
on to say that cellulitis most commonly comes from cuts, scrapes and even bug
bites. As far as a keloid on your piercing? What you are mislabeling is a pustule or
aka a piercing pimple NOT a keloid. It is a common occurrence and is NOT
permanently disfiguring. It’s usually cleared up with a little saltwater
treatment and does not leave a scar. I could go on about each and every one of
your misleading items but there isn’t enough time or space in this small
comment section. I will say this though, what you have listed, WHEN it was
correct, are at the very worst case scenarios and will only occur when a person
does nothing to clean or take care of themselves in general whether they have a
piercing or not. And the point of contracting STD’s through piercings is almost
laughable. THE most common way of contracting STD’s, specifically HIV is
through unprotected sex, piercing or not. If you wish to become a REAL journalist,
you need to revisit your commitment to telling the whole truth and not just
what you want to print. If that is how you plan on working your career, then
you should go get a job with FOX news, THE one-sided news team!
Excellent reasons not to get any stupid piercings! Not to mention pain and money!!