Thursday, November 11, 2010

BE CAREFUL! ear piercing can cause paralysis


Body piercing is the decoration on the body (human) form of embedding objects (mainly from metal, but can also bone, teeth, or antlers) a specific form of semi-permanent or permanent manner forwarded to the skin. In modern society, most of the reason people wear it is for jewelry (ornamental), although traditional practices in certain communities often have a religious ritual or social significance. By among other punk or post-modern movements like grunge and alternative, body piercing can be symbols of rebellion on the establishment. Another reason is for sexual gratification.

Postmodern culture can be symbolized by the use of piercing (below the lips, ears, and nipples), and tattoo.Embeddable parts of the body piercing most widely known is the bottom of the ear leaf. Piercing is specifically given the name earrings. This practice is commonly applied by many cultures and women who wear it is generally accepted by society, but for men there are a lot of reservations, because earrings are often associated with femininity. Other body parts are also quite common to be pierced where is the nose, chin, lower lip, forehead, and around the navel. The position is considered by many extreme (due to pain and healing time making holes) is on the tongue, cheeks, nipples, and the pubic. The latter is usually intended for sexual gratification reasons.Although the cleanliness of the piercing usually guarantees have been fulfilled, some people may experience problems with the healing process and allergies caused by piercing material.
For us all piercing is not a strange thing again, because many people who pierced body parts who live side by side with us. But the piercing can cause a fatality. Below is an explanation:




Ear piercing is a simple procedure. Risks that may occur only allergy or infection. But be careful if an infection could trigger other diseases can even be in the form of paralysis. Ear piercing is an ancient civilization that has made human ancestors since 5000 years ago. Children or adults who will perform ear piercing that is undergoing the same procedure until translucent cartilage piercing to the back. Although the procedure has been well served by not a few people who have an infection due to ear piercing. This infection is a risk yan always appear even if sterile procedures were followed.

This infection can sometimes cause serious illness. As experienced Grace Etherington, age of 15 years this British have suffered paralysis and unable to speak after suffering an infection in her ears are pierced. Ear infection that has triggered the emergence of a rare disease Guillain-Barre syndrome in the nervous system so that paralyzes the body. Because this syndrome, Grace is only able to communicate through blinking. Guillain-Barre syndrome is a rare autoimmune disorder that affects the peripheral nervous system. This is usually triggered by a severe infection and causing rapid paralysis, partial or total, starting with a loss of feeling in the feet (numbness) to affect the limbs, face and tendons. And the worst was a few days after suffering an infection in the ear, Grace was having trouble walking so that her mother rushed her to Mariime Medway Hospital in Kent. "I was very worried about him. She said could not hold a pencil at school and could not walk. I was really devastated and could not imagine my little girl could only blink for the rest of his life. That's worse than death, "explains Sharon as quoted Dailymail, Wednesday (10/11). Grace was in a coma for two days and some organs begin paralyzed. Her lungs had collapsed. But after a long treatment appears miracle because he began to realize while before the doctor was not really expecting much.

Grace began to move the fingers and mouth. He slowly began to wiggle his fingers and then try to talk. The words do not come out, but at least he was able to move his mouth. Although difficult to link pierced ears with paralysis, doctors recommend avoiding any kind of infection because the infection can lead to serious illness.For a safe ear piercing, one must also know the health risks to her self if she suffered from diabetes, high blood pressure, inflammation of the skin which can actually worsen the condition. As reported by eHow, upper ear piercing trend is most often become infected. Piercing the upper ear is not recommended by most doctors. If infection occurs immediately consult a doctor Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) to be given appropriate antibiotics. If no infection occurs during the piercing process, people also should be diligent in cleaning the ear and surrounding area. Make sure the area is free of lotion, shampoo or conditioner rest, perfume or dirt in sight. Ear piercing healing process can last 2-6 weeks then it is diligent to clean the front and back of ear with alcohol or other cleaning solutions.
 

1 comment:

  1. This is a very Educating colloum, I am doing a Project at school about body image, And this page has helped me deeply, The pictures are true and the infomation is very well done.
    Thank-you

    ReplyDelete

Popular Posts