That’s exactly where Ryan Merchant decided to put his fifth tattoo more than a year ago.
Merchant was diagnosed with diabetes when he was 13 years old. As an electrician, he finds a tattoo more practical and safer than the metal alert bracelet he used to wear.
“You don’t want to wear metal when you’re working with electricity, so I had always to take it off before my shifts,” he says.
Tattooing is minor surgery, so patients should discuss it first with their doctors, says endocrinologist Dr. Saleh Aldasouqi of Michigan State University.
“If not done right, if not done by licensed parlors, by clean and sterile tools, then patients can have infections,” says Aldasouqi, who believes the medical community should create guidelines to standardize the process.
In the meantime, he says, more of his patients are getting medical tattoos and are happy with them.
“We can certainly call it a growing trend amongst patients in particular with diabetes,” says Aldasouqi.
Grimet, the tattoo artist, says between 60 and 80 people have come in to his salon for medical tattoos.
It's a new trend he expects to grow; one that's good for business as well as the health of his newest customers.
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