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Wilson's Disease and Tattoos
My boyfriend recently turned 18 and wants to get a tattoo this weekend. He was diagnosed with Wilson's Disease when he was 14. He is on daily meds and rarely misses a dose. FYI Wilson's is when the liver cannot get rid of the excess copper in your system. So do you think getting a tattoo will be harmful for him. I tried to google it but nothing really came up either way.
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Many tattoo inks have lots and lots of "trace" metals in them. Not much research had ever really been done on tattoo inks until only recently - and the inks are really, really horrible. I would very honestly recommend that he not get the tattoo unless they can prove to him that the dyes have NO copper - not even trace amounts.
Also, check if Wilson's Disease affects other metals similar to copper - many of the transition metals could fall under the same category in this situation.
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