Death From Piercing! :(

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Death From Piercing! (Discussion)

:( poor girl.

March 11, 2006
17-year-old girl dies from Nipple Piercing; Toxic Shock Syndrome.

Medical authorities in Vancouver Canada are investigating the death of a 17-year-old girl whose identity is being withheld, after initial indication that the girl fell victim to a fatal case of Toxic Shock Syndrome as a result of an unsanitary nipple piercing.


According to the U.S. Centers for Disease and Prevention, Toxic Shock Syndrome is caused mainly by toxins from bacterial strains of Staphylococcus aureus, typically found in the mucous membranes of the mouth and on the skin. The onset of the syndrome starts with sudden chills, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle aches and skin rashes.

Dr. Simon Avis stated that the girl had been admitted to a St. Johns hospital earlier in the week with complex medical problems. She died Thursday March 9, 2006. Although until a complete microbiological examination is made, the exact cause of death cannot be confirmed, all suspicion puts to the fact that the nipple piercing is most likely cause of the systemic infection. Avis that the apparent toxic shock syndrome was caused by infection at the site of the piercing as determined from an anatomical autopsy already performed.

Avis said her death might be "an extreme example" of what can occur when people have lips, tongues, eyebrows, genitals and other body parts punctured in the name of fashion.
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Never knew this could happen :(

-Neon
 
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Fatiain and Brynn are right you'll never hear the full story. Things like this happen through bad piercers and poor after care. Blood poisoning is caused by an infection thats been ignored getting into the blood. This could have been avoided, it may be because the law in America usually states you must be 21 and show id to get pierced leading to younger people going to cowboys and friends.
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no offense to you or brynn but it both sounds like your trying to get out of the fact piercings are perfectly safe and its nothing to do with body mods, which quite frankly we all know is garbage. the body wasnt meant to be modded, and this could well be the case of her dying.
 
there not pefectly safe and you know full well there not, when you walk into a tattooist, or a piercer, they hold no responsibilitys when you step out of the parlour.

FACT.
 
piercings arent the route of all evil, you know me blackstar and you know what my girlfriend has on her body, and as i say yes piercings are fine if you look after them, im planning on getting piercings, but in some cases no matter how you look after them or how you careful you are things can happen..

Neon
 
Neon i know what your like it was just the way you went about it pet, i'm sorry i get very defencive of thigs i'm passionate about.
Reading over that article it mentions 'unsanitary nipple piercing' which could be taken to mean she wasn't lookig after it. It's unfortunate that things like this happen. This is the exact reason my dad blew his top when i got my lip pierced his arguement was that his friend's daughter was paralised after a lip piercing due to blood poisoning. Its a rare thing to happen thank god.
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i think piercings are amazingly cool, and tattoos im all in for body mods love em to bits, heck soon as i get the cash my body is getting inked feet to head, and the odd piercing.

but i think this is just showing we should be careful of caring for the wound. yeh blackstar i do understand where you coming from, there not the route of all evil, there the route of being unique :) and im all for em, but when someone dies from one makes me slightly werey? (sp?)
 
Please, try and convince me otherwise. I dont have my head stuck in the sand about this (despite what you might think) and I would like to be proven wrong, I just cant see it happening.
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people get pleasure out of the pain and also the fact of having done.
 
I cant think of any other reason why you would want to get it done.
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whats with the brain dead posts you just dont understand, and you might or never will... its just about being yourself and doing what the **** you want whether people like it or not, im not digging at you.

its about unique to us, we dont follow trends :)

not meant to sound at a dig at you by the way sorry for it sounding that way.
 
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It's hardly unique, millions of people worldwide have piercings you're never going to find anything that is truely unique.
For a start i got my first ever piercing following a trend.
As far as i know Neon you have no mods, to be honest you never understand fully until you have some.
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its very unique blackstar when its done like you have, i do understand being around people who have them done a lot, since i was small.
 
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