<p>Serenity, no matter how good the piercer is or how well one applies topical antiseptic to a piercing - if a bug has entered the bloodstream, the train has left the station, so to speak. </p>
<p>And to address the links in the N post: there is a risk in everything. However, an extremely rare reaction to a dye or a stupid chocking accident came from the activities that have less inherent risk than piercings of certain tissues.</p>
<p>Bunsen, how would the infection get in if not by some fault of unclean equipment (piercer problem) or improper care (pierced personâs problem)?</p>
<p>Also, people get infections all the time. But are the chances of dying from a piercing significantly higher than the chances of dying from hair dye? Iâd argue that hair dye is likely more dangerous if done repeatedly due to repeated chemical exposure. Especially when using bleach.</p>
<p>To answer your q about how infection gets into the bloodstream, please see the quote below. Tongue surface is really hard to sanitize due to the surface morphology and abundance of bacteria. It does not take much more than a few bacteria to cause a lot of trouble.
BTW, bleach is a good bacteicidal agent. Just do not use it on your tongue. ;)</p>
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<p>I highly recommend reading the entire article:</p>
<p>N: I think you are dying from boredom. On a more serious note, if you make such a conclusion in view of the presented data, your paper will be rejected by the reviewers.</p>
<p>Iâm sorry, B. I forgot to take your articles into consideration. </p>
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<p>On a more serious note, I was not serious.</p>
<p>My view on piercings is that theyâre not permanent. Get a piercing? Donât like it? Take it out. With any body modification you need to research what your doing. This goes for dying hair, piercings, tattoos, makeup, etc. Research is a given and the person can decide if the risks are worth it. And many do decide the risks are worth it.</p>
<p>I used to be appalled by tattoos, and I do believe theyâre a waste of time and money⊠BUT⊠in our bike business, our best employees are the ones who have tattoos of bicycle parts (gears are especially popular). Iâm not sure, at this point, if weâd ever hire a mechanic who didnât have a bicycle tattoo. Of course, itâs Portland, where everyone (it seems) has a tattoo that indicates their particular passion. My hairdresser has a pair of shears; the servers at my favorite restaurant have food tattoos; my dog friends have dog paws. I even know a doctor with an amazing tattoo of an anatomically correct heart.</p>
<p>Dmd, this trend does not seem to apply to the scientists I know (I live in the other tattoo capital of the PNW). The ones with tats of molecules on their arms seemed to be the least productive employees. :)</p>
<p>N: what percentage of teens âresearchâ the risks prior to getting a piercing? Even the ones who made it to this forum (I suspect these are the smarter ones :)) canât understand why certain piercings are riskier than others.</p>
<p>Iâve never met anyone who didnât understand that a lip piercing is riskier than a lobe piercing. Or that a tragus is likely more risky than a normal cartilage piercing. I donât know where youâre coming from saying people donât understand that some piercings are riskier. Itâs simply not true.</p>
<p>When I turned 18, I dyed my entire hair teal. I wanted to do something spunky and fun before I went off to college and needed to keep my hair natural for professional appearances! When else would I get the chance?</p>
<p>My friendâs mom saw me and went âugh, what did your mom say?â and I said âshe let me do this.â She looked at me like she was horrified. She then implied that I was becoming a very rebellious kid and didnât want me hanging out with her daughter that much anymore.</p>
<p>How weird! Itâs like all of a sudden Iâm a completely different person because my hair changed colors. Iâm glad most parents on this forum are way more open-minded.</p>
<p>Junior year I had a friend seriously consider getting cheek piercings. She researched it. Read diaries. Watched Vlogs. Watched the procedure. She turned it inside out. </p>
<p>To say teens get a piercing with no thought of the risks or implications simply is untrue. </p>
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Iâd love to see what data you have to support this.</p>
<p>So put holes in your body. No one is stopping you but youâre getting a taste of the variety of impressions it leaves on people you might be working with someday or perhaps will be interviewing you. Some wonât care. Some will care. Plus youâre getting links to data that says it can be risky business.</p>
<p>I It seem stupid to discriminate just because a person have a nose piercing or one of those big round ear ring(to be honest I think people are stupid to go for those).
The only exception IMO is if there a safety issue like in a factory or something.
Edit: and they can be easily remove with no visible holes.</p>
It goes both ways. I just see it as another thing that can easily be changed. </p>
<p>The thing with piercings is they can be âout if sight, out of mind.â I c have hip piercings. You canât see them. Why does it matter? I believe the judgements start with facial piercings. First impressions are not always correct. I donât see why a person who use to have a piercing would be a problem, job wise. Just as someone who used to have pink hair. They donât have it now. </p>
<p>Who your children associate with in middle and high school is important. I want my children around clean-cut kids who are good students and would be wary of their associating with kids sporting blue hair and especially piercings. Since I would not want my children to attract the wrong crowd and repel the right crowd, I want them to look clean-cut themselves.</p>
<p>When I was in middle school, the clean cut kids were not exactly paragons of virtue, if you know what Iâm saying. Not that the alternative kids were - but the alternative kids were much less interested in conformity, so applied less peer pressure regarding sex / drugs / alcohol / tobacco / hanging out with the ârightâ crowd.</p>
<p>I attended a public magnet school for âgiftedâ students. One of the other girls had purple highlights for about 3 months one time. One of the guys dyed his hair gold when his wrestling team made it to states (the entire team dyed their hair either black or gold). The girl is going for biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech. The guy is going for aerospace engineering at Florida Tech. Both held down jobs after school. Both graduated in the top of their class. I think the guy was actually valedictorian for his. Other than the hair color, both were very âclean cutâ. You canât get a reasonable judgement on a person by their hair color.</p>
<p>Also, there is no right or wrong crowd. Just the people you wish for them to associate with and the ones you donât.</p>
<p>I will say, I went to the doctor yesterday (health forms for college, yay) and my hair was yellow-orange due to bleach. One old man looked at me like he couldnât comprehend how I looked. I got no questions on it though.</p>
<p>You have no control over what group your student ends up gravitating to in life.</p>
<p>You can dress a kid in preppy attire with the latest perfect hair cut but he will still be drawn to those students his interests and personality align with.</p>
<p>hahahah⊠as parents we kid ourselves into thinking we can mold little Johnny anyway we wantâŠbut it just doesnât work that way. </p>
<p>Your kid will eventually become who she or he is meant to become and, as parents, we will eventually accept it.</p>
Those clean cut kids can be the biggest druggies of the entire school population. But hey, theyâre clean cut. :rolleyes:</p>
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I would like to know how you successfully executed this with your kids. I wonder if you sent them into school with, âI donât associate with druggies.â t-shirts. Something that would really show that wrong crowd whoâs boss, you know?</p>
<p>You canât control who your kid associates with. Itâs school. They will come in contact with all different types of people. Just because they have an extra piercing or a streak of green hair does not mean they are any less of a good person.</p>
<p>And by druggies, Niquii does mean druggies. Often the teen coke addicts and prescription abusers look perfectly normal. And the people with bright hair often donât go further than pot. Though, in all honesty, most of the people I know with unnatural hair colors are actually âstraight edgeâ.</p>