Tattoo, also known as tattoo, tattoo, is with the color of the needle into the skin underlying the skin to create some patterns or words out of the tattoo arose from the original tribal peoples around the world the custom of tattooing the skin body. But did you know that tattoos can also make you infected with hepatitis C? Hepatitis C is dangerous, tattoos need to be careful! Experts believe that tattooing is a harmful health behavior, you should avoid going to commercial tattoo places for tattooing. According to research, tattoo special tattoo pigments, containing lead, chromium and other heavy metals and other compounds, these colored chemical synthetic substances on the human body has the potential to harm, is one of the factors that induce skin cancer. If you really want to decorate your body, you can choose a sticker-style tattoo. Although there are reports that some of the ingredients in the stickers can be harmful to the body, it is, after all, safer than using unsterilized needles. Modern tattoos, a cultural phenomenon that combines the “fashion” and “popular”, more and more young people have become a tattoo family, in their own body tattooed on the favorite pattern or word. Tattooing may not seem dangerous, however, there are now many tattooed people who suffer from it, in this fashion behind the hidden great danger. Tattoo use of tattoo needles such as formal strict sterilization, will not be infected with disease. However, many tattoo industries in China are currently informal, the lack of appropriate medical knowledge of practitioners, tattoo equipment can not do a thorough disinfection, resulting in tattoos when the opportunity to increase the infection of hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is mainly through blood transmission, mother-to-child transmission and sexual transmission, tattoo transmission of hepatitis C is the key to sharing tattoo needles. The repeated use of tattoo needles that are not strictly sterilized on different people is also a cause of the hepatitis C epidemic, which in severe cases can even lead to malignant blood system diseases. A study published by U.S. scientists showed that, unlike people who contract hepatitis C through other routes, who generally show visible symptoms, people who contract hepatitis C through tattoos usually do not show visible symptoms of hepatitis infection, thus missing the opportunity for treatment. The hepatitis C virus can turn 70 percent of those infected into chronic patients, while only 10 to 15 percent of those infected will develop acute symptoms. A study published in the journal Internal Medicine showed that the risk of contracting hepatitis C is significantly higher in the tattooed population. Researchers conducted an observational study of 600 patients, and they found that 18 percent of them had tattoos. Of these tattooed patients, more than 20 percent were infected with hepatitis C, and 33 percent of these patients were tattooed at commercial tattoo parlors. Only 3.5 percent of the untattooed had hepatitis C. The researchers also found that those with multiple tattoos were at increased risk of developing the potentially fatal disease.