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Tattoos and other body mods
ackblom12:
Looks like Wisconsin has outright banned Subdermal Implants, Microdermals, Scalpel Scarification and Tongue Splits, as well as making Laser Tattoo Removal illegal unless under the supervision of a licensed physician.
Carl-E:
There's always the hazard of infection when you break the skin, but this sounds like outright territorialism.
Do you think this was pushed through by the medical community, or just some offended/scared legislators?
Maybe a coalition...
After all, so long as the board of health ensures sterile protocols are used, the risk of infection's less than in a hospital...
Which isn't saying much, actually. Where do you think things like MRSA developed?
ackblom12:
I'm assuming it was legislators who are offended by such things or just needed something that would be easy to pass with their name on it. I'm thinking I might look into it in the next few days to see if there was any news about it, but, I'm not going to discount the medical community's possible part in this. To be frank, the medical community is about as ignorant and reactionary to body modification as you can get outside of political entities. I've been told a number of times by doctors to get antibiotics for a fresh piercing because it was mildly red.
Carl-E:
Right, because every medical practitioner knows irritation = infection.
(click to show/hide)So I'm sitting in the hospital with my daughter. Since she caths to pee, she's susceptible to UTI's, and last week noticed she had one (no feeling in the shorts region means it gets pretty bad before she notices). Did the urinalysis and this infections only susceptible to a couple of things - nitrofurantoin (which we tried first but it made her so nauseous that she couldn't keep it down) and vancomycin, which has to be done through an IV, and in her case, through a picc line*.
So Monday we were in an office getting ready to get a picc line put in so the vanc could be done at home without an extensive hospital stay. She's on the table, when our doctor calls and cancels the procedure. The infection might be showing some susceptibility to plain old amoxycillin, and wouldn't we want to avoid using the nasty antibiotic and invasive procedure?
Well, no, not if it doesn't fucking work. The stuff wouldn't kill off the bacteria fast enough, and her back started hurting, which means the infection started getting up into her kidneys - dangerous territory. Not to mention the usual amoxycillin diarrhea.
So here we are, wasted time, wasted money, when we could've avoided both because my doctor's over reactionary about the overuse of antibiotics.
:-P
Sometimes you need the big hammer.
* picc line - peripherally inserted central catheter. Here's a picc pic;
Redball:
Thought of this thread today.
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