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Liz · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:20 am Post subject: URGENT - Please help me friends!

Hey! I just got my 4th today and have a question:

CAN I WASH MY NEW TATTOO 3 TIMES A DAY (instead of 4)?

I have a REALLY long day tomorrow and can't go to a public toilet to wash and put cream on it. I leave at around 10am and come home at 5pm - can I wash it in the morning, after 5pm and then before bed?

Or twice that morning, and twice when i get home?

Also I want to use cold water instead of warm most times (cept in my shower.

Please reply, I'm really busy right now, but I have to know!

Thanks everyone.

nancy · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

I never washed mine, just one time after the tattoo was done and i get of the plastic.
It healed good , no scabs, colors are fine

Alvin · Tattoo lover Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 28

You should ALWAYS wash & treat your tattoo whenever you go into a toilet while it is healing. Even if you don't "use" the facilities!

WC's have a lot of airborne bacteria.

Liz · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

well that's the thing, it will be hard to wash it in the public toilet - theres bar soap and heaps of people and id have to take my whole top off.

So i am going to wash it twice this morning (8am and 11am and then when i get home at around 5pm and then before bed.

I'm sure they say some people do theirs only 3 times a day, so i'm a clean person with clean clothing and 5 hours won't hurt hopefully.

oh_bugger · Tattoo addict Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 508

Three times a day ?

Wash the tat in the morning and wack some cream on it.

Put some cream on about four hours later

Put some cream on four hours later

Go home have a bath put some cream on.

Really it can be that simple I have treated all my tattoos this way and have never had an infection yet.

As to washing the tat after each time in the bathroom where would you wash it ? in the sink in toilet ? hardly hygenic.

Liz · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:41 am Post subject:

that's what i thought. I'd use the sink- rather than the actual toilet (joke joke), except yes, I imagine heaps of bacteria all over the basins and soap anyways.

I'd only ever do that If I absolutely had to, and I'd bring my own liquid soap and water in a water sprayer.

So today I just washed it at home before i went and came home and did it again. If it feels uncomfy i just put some cream on during the day.

I know its simple, i just panic haha.

Thanks everyone,

Liz.

Alvin · Tattoo lover Joined: 17 Mar 2007 Posts: 28

OK, sorry I didn't make it clear before regarding washing after visiting WC's.

This is advice I have been given by several unassociated tattoo studios.

I was referring to exposed new tattoos. You should always wash them after going into a WC as it will reduce the likelihood of infection. By wash I mean clean with water (not bathe in the sink!) & apply moisturizing cream.

Of course you do not need to do this, but then you wont necessarily get a disease every time you use a used syringe will you!!

Liz · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:10 am Post subject:

I do not think I would catch a disease if I don't wash my new tattoo after every visit to the womens toilet (is that what you mean by WC- WOMENS CUBICLES?)

Because if that was the case, I would have got something by now. And I mean by sitting on the toilet or touching the door on my way out or touching taps. I have had scratches on me from my work in ferret hospitals, so i could have got germs into my wounds huh?

By washing your hands many times every day you actually get rid of ALL potentially harmful germs. Did you know that? Its mostly your hands that can make you sick.

I think that is a huge myth. Womens toilets aren't clean I know, but I have never seen anything with my eyes that I would be disgusted at, theres plenty of soap and hot water and lots of hand towels. There isn't exactly things tossed everywhere. But I'm sure it sometimes gets like that in some places.

I see nothing wrong with me going into a toilet and then walking out without washing my tattoo as well as my hands. I have clean clothes on every day and airborne disease is very unlikely in a public toilet.

I wouldn't WASH my tattoo in an actual public bathroom/toilet basin as i agree there could be germs, but mostly I'd be too embarressed anyway.

Ive never ever caught or had any disease, not even salmonella and I deal with fresh meat for the ferrets every day of my life.

My dad never washes his hands and my boyfriend of 6 years will only wash his hands before eating. I know I always wash my hands after every bathroom visit, before eating and after holding animals etc. And especially when I have new tattoos Laughing