Do you believe your fresh tattoo is healing poorly? If you experience inflammation and pus discharge, your tattoo is infected and not healing. Start treating the illness immediately to stop it from spreading. Need help with how to treat it? You’re right here. This article provides a straightforward way to treat an infected tattoo at home using steps and home treatments. Here are some Remedies For Tattoo Infection.
How to tell if a tattoo is infected – signs and symptoms
Whether you are still unsure whether your tattoo is healing properly or whether it is becoming infected. We’ve compiled a list of the most common symptoms of an infected tattoo:
- Irritation
- Inflammation itching
- Pus discharge (whitish, yellowish, or greenish)
- The tattoo picture is warped scabs.
- Blisters of excruciating discomfort
- Touch sensitivity is high.
- Bad odor
- Fever
- Fatigue
In most cases, these are bacterial infections. However, fungal or yeast infections can sometimes occur. This page contains images of infected tattoos, such as the one on the cover and below. Tattoos can develop infected during the tattooing session when the tiny wounds are being created, or after the session, during the healing process, both immediately and during the weeks it can take to heal properly.
Step-by-step instructions for curing an infected tattoo at home
When dealing with a tattoo infection, it is critical to begin treatment as soon as possible. However, as soon as you have completed the first basic cures, you must see a doctor so that he may examine the situation and the severity of the illness and alter the treatment to be the most suited for your unique case. We also urge that you go to the tattoo studio where you had it done to explain what happened, especially if you believe you followed all of the proper protocols for typical tattoo treatment. Now, these are the instructions for how to cure an infected tattoo at home step by step, keeping in mind that this is about basic remedies or first aid, which should not be used in place of a doctor’s visit.
Steps To Follow
- As much as possible, clean the tattoo wounds. Using warm water and sterile gauze, gently dry the area to eliminate evidence of suppuration, excess ink, and blood.
- After cleaning the area, apply an antibiotic lotion to infected tattoos. It is available at pharmacies, and your doctor will almost certainly prescribe one for you. It is not about tattoo ointments or creams (such as Bepanthol or Blastoestimulina), but about specialized antibiotic ointments or creams that include antibiotics such as mupirocin or others, such as Mupirocin, Bactroban, Fucidine, Diprogenta, Plasimine creams, and so on.
- Put gauze around the tattoo and secure it with plastic wrap or film and tape to keep everything in place.
- As you notice the skin’s evolution, repeat this therapy at least twice daily.
- When the major symptoms have subsided, and you feel better, you may resume using the healing ointment or cream to regenerate the skin of the tattoo and make it look excellent, but not before.
It is important to note that the process is nearly identical to when you merely need to use the basic tattoo healing cream to hydrate and regenerate the skin. It is substituting a tattoo healing cream with an antibiotic for tattoos. Remember that the ideal is to go to the doctor the same day you see it and that you complete these measures as an emergency and first aid measure if going to the doctor would take several hours or even days.
Remedies for treating an infected tattoo
If you are looking for home remedies to cure an infected tattoo, we recommend that you do not rely solely on these remedies because infections spread quickly, and it is preferable to use specific antibiotic creams with a much faster action, in addition to proper hygiene.
However, it is appropriate to use natural products as a supplement to the treatment of an infected tattoo, as the antibacterial action will be more powerful and last longer, being able to act both externally when applied to the skin, such as creams and internally, which is also necessary, when taking food or natural products in the usual diet and infusions. As a result, we recommend that you include certain foods, in dishes or infusions, in your daily diet while treating the tattoo infection and that you only apply cold infusions externally with gauze to clean the wound, let it air dry, and then carry out the curing process described previously. The right vegetable oils can also be used between treatments, allowing the skin to absorb them completely before proceeding with the next therapy.
Natural remedies with antibacterial, antiseptic, and healing characteristics are ideal for treating an infected tattoo.
- Garlic
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Aloe vera
- Propolis
- Honey Ginger
- Coconut oil
- Rosehip oil
- Almond oil
- Tea tree oil
How long does it take to repair a tattoo that has become infected?
This is a question that many people who have this problem have. But the truth is that it will rely on a variety of things, and it will take much longer than if it were just the basic treatment and healing. The size of the tattoo determines the time it takes to heal an infected tattoo. The degree of illness, and the extent of the infection, as well as the appearance of infection, which is a second infection on top of the current one, such as a fungal infection on top of a bacterial infection. The best part is that as soon as we see that the tattoo is not healing properly, we quickly begin with the fundamental treatments, medical therapy, and remedies to complete treating it properly.