Hey everyone! This is part of …. Piercing Guns are BAD! So let us dive into the comparison between needle and gun piercing styles.
As many of you may or may not know, the tools that we use to pierce with in tattoo shops are sterile. That means they are put through a cleaning cycle in an autoclave to “Kill all viable microorganisms”. Once something is sterile, there is not a single chance that tool could cause you health issues. Our needles, however, being difficult to clean on the inside are single use and disposed of in a sharps container after being used. So, piercings at a tattoo shop, all tools are sterilized, or if too difficult to clean, single use. Nice and easy, nice and safe. Let’s look at piercing guns now. Piercing guns are made of a plastic composite. This composite is not capable of being put through an autoclave at appropriate temperatures to sterilize as it will melt. What they do instead is sanitize the gun with some kind of cleaning solution, but sanitizing by definition is to only “reduce the number of viable microorganisms.” Fancy medical jargon that means, there is still a very good chance that if someone got pierced with staph, hepatitis, an existing infection, or any number of other things right before you and you’re next in line, guess who has a very real possibility of getting a staph infection, in your ear. The unfortunate thing is that most of the people at risk for this are young children who’s immune systems aren’t as well developed as ours to fight off such an infection, especially babies. Stay tuned for part two of why piercing guns are bad sometime during the next week. And even more blog posts to follow now that our new website is up and running!