Can You Donate Blood If You Have Tattoo?
Are you thinking of getting a tattoo? Many people are growing more accepting of the tattooing process, although there are some people with controversial and reserved thoughts about the inking process. One of those reserved thoughts and prohibitions includes donating blood after getting your body tattooed.
There are a few things that may disqualify you from becoming a donor for blood, such as age, potential life situations, and events and diseases such as Hepatitis B and C, HIV or AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases, as well as some severe lungs diseases. In some facilities, you could also be ineligible for giving blood if you recently had a tattoo or a piercing.
In this article, we’re going to talk about whether it’s allowed to donate blood if you have a tattoo, as well as some regulations from facility to facility. Make sure to read the article, if you’re a regular blood donor, but you want to embark on the tattooing journey.
Tattoos And Blood Donation
As you may know, when tattooing, your tattoo artist will use a tattoo needle to pierce through your skin to shape and outline your tattoo. The tattooing process allows a lot of bacteria living on your skin to get inside of it and potentially enter your bloodstream.
Among those bacteria, there could also be some blood-borne pathogens that could spread across the blood and result in some sexually-transitive diseases that you may not know about. That’s why many hospitals and medical facilities, as well as blood donating facilities, had a pretty strict policy about donating blood from tattooed individuals.
Even a famous football player Cristiano Ronaldo avoided getting a tattoo because he frequently donated his blood.
As you may know, the healing process for a tattoo can last anywhere from two weeks to six weeks, and cause skin infections if the aftercare is not properly done. The risk is only increased if you didn’t get your tattoo done at a certified and regulated tattoo studio but went to an unregulated tattoo artist who didn’t adhere to all the rules for hygiene when tattooing.
