Increase in body piercings causes headaches for health providers
Doctors should prepare for the consequences as piercing of body parts other than earlobes gains in popularity, according to a government-sponsored study in the UK.
About one in ten adults has had something other than an earlobe or two pierced, the study found. Navels were the most common site (reported by one teen girl in three, with complications in one-third of those cases). Oral piercings are on the increase.
A startling one piercing in ten took place outside a specialist piercing shop. There was at least one report of piercing by self or a friend for every body part mentioned in the study, including nipples and genitals.
One body piercing in 100 ended in hospitalization.
These data confirm and expand on similar results from the United States.
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