Beauty Eye by Tattoo Can Blind YouRead 12,451

Eyeball tattoos or sclera tattoos have not unacceptable to medical and science. Eyeball tattoos’ procedure is the tattooist injects ink under the surface of the conjunctiva (part of sclera) If the needle isn’t in exactly the right position, the ink can be injected into the inside of the eye, onto the retina or into the tissue around the eye. Any of mistakes can be long term effect and make to pain or irritation including loss vision.

Risks of eyeball tattoos include:

1. Decreased vision or complete blindness

2. Retinal detachment

3. Infection and inflammation of the eye

4. Sensitivity to light

5. Irritation all the time

6. Loss of the entire eye

Sclera tattooing was outlawed in Nebraska in early 2019, joining bans in Oklahoma, Indiana and the Canadian province of Ontario. Lawmakers in Washington state are also considering a ban.

For safety to change the appearance of your eyes, visit your ophthalmologist to get a prescription and fitted by a doctor for cosmetic contact lenses. If we wear contact lens without a prescription by the doctor. It can contaminated and ill-fitting lenses can cause your blinding eye problems.

Case: Eye Tattoo Leads to Removal of the Eye

In 2017, Paul Freund, MD, and Mark Greve, MD, from the University of Alberta in Canada reported on a tragic case. A 24-year-old man underwent an eyeball tattoo procedure and experienced a sudden, painful and loss of vision while the tattoo artist was injecting ink into the first eye seeing that the ink had been injected too deep also into the vitreous humor in the middle of the eye.

Drs. Freund and Dr.Greve removed the vitreous and the lens of his eye because the lens had been damaged by the needle during the tattoo procedure. The doctors discovered that the mixture of vitreous and tattoo ink was contaminated with bacteria. They were done to control infection and complications by multiple procedures to deliver antibiotics.

Although, The eye was removed, the retina and inside of the eye were found to be stained with ink. There was also cell loss on the corneal epithelium and effected to serious vision problems.

Reference
American Academy of Ophthalmology

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