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Ear Piercing Scared To Get Tested
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Ear piercingCan you get HIV or hepatitis from a piercing gun? I just pierced my baby's ears at the mall and then I read a lot of info on the net about how dangerous it is. they used a prepackaged sterile cassette, and they said the gun(which is not...
Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
Hi,If indeed they used a "prepacked sterile cassette," the HIV-transmission risk is nonexistent. I see no cause for concern and certainly no need to subject your daughter to infectious diseases testing! After all, the poor little thing...
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Ear piercing QuestionHow safe is ear piercing nowdays? I was just asking because I had my daughter's ears pierced... Read more »Ear piercing by piercing gunWe just pierced my daughter ears with the piercing gun in the mall and I start doing my research on... Read more »
Articles
Canada: 3,000 Warned of HIV Risk at Tattoo ShopCustomers who received tattoos or body piercings at Moonshin Tattoo, located on Dundas Street West in Mississauga, between March 2005 and February 2009 have been advised to seek testing for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C. Peel Public Health... Read more »
Canada: Warning for Clients of Coleman, Alberta, Piercing ShopAlberta Health Services is advising clients of a now-closed piercing parlor -- the Victor Proctor piercing operation, located inside Tommy Gun Tattoos in the southern Alberta town of Coleman -- to be tested for blood-borne viruses. The unapproved... Read more »
Canada: 2,000 Told of Disease Risk From Tattoos, PiercingsThe Durham Region Health Department said Thursday it closed an Oshawa tattoo and body piercing shop, Longhorn Custom Bodyart, due to the risks to patrons of viral hepatitis and HIV transmission. Health inspectors discovered the sterilizer was... Read more »
Getting Pierced or Tatooed SafelyThe photo that runs with this column is almost three years old. I always thought that picture had a gee-whizzy, high school yearbook quality, which makes me look angelic or saintly. I'm neither. I'm actually kinda eclectic and kinky. Now I ask you,... Read more »
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Can't Test and Scared
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
Hi,I've been extremely worried as of late. I had enlarged lymph nodes on my neck for about 2 weeks (very sore for 3 days) and I have pin pricks of blood risen to my shoulders. I had three non-painful red lumps on my fore arm, but the last one... Read more » wicked scared i got infected at the testing site
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
I am scared I may have been infected at the test site because I scraped my knuckles on the door. That was 7 weeks ago and I am practically having a nervous breakdown. I have a lymph node behind my ear which is swollen. Does anyone know how far...
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Tested and Scared...
Posted by bigdaddy
Got drunk 10 months ago and had all night rough unprotected sex with a woman whom I've since found out gets around alot. A few weeks after the encounter I remember feeling really crapped out and lousy for a few days. Just last month I developed a...
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piercing
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
is it possible to get aids from a piercing gun? they push the earing through your ear, not a needle. Read more »
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