Is Laser Tattoo Removal Safe with Pregnancy?

Is Laser Tattoo Removal Safe with Pregnancy? - Tattoo removal is a common procedure for many people to go through once they decide they no longer want to wear the ink. It is especially common for women to get once they realize they want children or that they are already pregnant.

The reasoning for ditching the tattoo and having children vary, for many, it is juicet about more adult and parent appropriate. Also many choose to remove it because of some private issues. They want to get the tattoo removed but if the woman is already pregnant, then the question about whether or not the removal is safe to do while pregnant arises.

The bottom line is that your laser tattoo removal sessions will be postponed until after you give birth to your child ; if you are planning on breast-feeding, then you will have to wait until you are done breast-feeding to resume the tattoo removal sessions.



You may be wondering why it is not safe to complete the removal sessions while pregnant. Well, there have not been extensive studies showing that the procedure is safe to do while pregnant and consequently, for many tattoo removal studios, the decision is to safe rather than sorry. However, the studies that have been done have been saying that it is not safe to get done while pregnant.

What information have those studies given us that causes tattoo removal studios to decide that removal should wait until post-birth is what happens to the ink after it is broken up from the laser. When you get laser tattoo removal, the ink is hit by the laser and broken up. The ink particles are located in the dermis layer of the skin (the second layer of skin) and stay there after being broken up until they are removed by the immune sistem. 

When you body's immune sistem is removing the ink particles, it transports them around the body until they find the proper exit ; when you are pregnant, this means that they can make a stop by the fetus and contaminate things. The ink particles can contain metal and the metal can cause some issues for the developing child in the womb. This is actually also why you are supposed to wait until after breast-feeding to resume the removal.
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