An increase in infections among "scene" kids.

[savethewave]

My mom is a pediatric nurse, and has noticed that among Caucasian, middle-class teenagers, there is a dramatic increase in staphococcus infections, especially around recent body modifications. We got to talking about why, and this was my theory. I presented it to the doctors at the office, and they agreed. Cool

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[mastercontrol20]

Fascinating expose. I never really knew about this phenomenon. Good Lord, life is hard and then your tittie rings become infected.

[savethewave]

I wish I had better than an EMT's grasp of medicine, and my microscope sucks, and it's in storage.

I see a LOT of kids with big stretched reddened earlobes, and I think that kind of hole should take years to stretch out, but I think they do it over the course of only months.

[zeroenthusiasm]

Good thing I don't get piercings or tattoos.
And this won't even phase them. Being scene comes before comfort.

[savethewave]

Just as well, and hopefully, it'll thin out the herd.

[anonymous]

Eww.

[savethewave]

If you ever go to a show that kids like this go to, you have a good chance of seeing big pockets of these kids with runny noses, coughs, and infected-looking skin around their visible mods and recent tattoos.

[mastercontrol20]

Whoa. Really? Never ever noticed. Now I am inspecting all belly button rings for infectious redness.

[savethewave]

Next time, look around. A great many kids have never learned patience or objectivity, because their parents protected them from all harm.

Take a look, for example, at how parents pushed the people who run things like team sports, to force them to have leagues where no score is kept, where "everyone is a winner," and mediocre players are not cut from the team, to perhaps do something that they might be good at instead. The kids are protected from disappointment in the short term, only to never learn coping strategies in the long term.

Because these kids are indulged in many other ways, they never learn patience or self-restraint, turning themselves into a patchwork quilt pierced with metal in very short periods of time, instead of over many years, which is what should be done.

[supernovacaine]

Haha. Infection aside, what kind of spoiled kid can AFFORD to get tons of ink and metal in such a short span of time?

[savethewave]

You just answered your own question.

Also, people can buy tattoo machines and piercing kits online, so they can do it themselves.

A friend of my brother's who runs a piercing shop is being sued by kids who have infections, because they never followed the instructions to take care of a new piercing. My bro's friend will win; he always does.

[ex_the_idea_555]

That totally grossed me out when I worked in the ER. I saw so many cases of celluitis and other skin infections in people with tats and mods that I stopped considering a second tattoo.

[savethewave]

The keloids are what get me. I have a body covered with them from various injuries, but I cannot imagine deliberately inflicting that on myself.

[ex_the_idea_555]

Keloids are so gross. So many facial and mouth piercings have keloids when they improperly heal.