“People with tattoos are perfect plasma donors because we know they're not afraid of needles - one of the biggest barriers for new donors donating blood or plasma for the first time,” said Cath Stone.
Since tattooing involves piercing the skin with a needle, there's invariably some blood concerned. The reason you're waiting on the brink of a year isn't for a result that you will be cleared for donation; it is for the result indicating if you have the disease or not to show up in blood tests.Jun 15, 2019
If you have recently had a tattoo or body piercing you cannot donate for 6 months from the date of the procedure. If the body piercing was performed by a registered health professional and any inflammation has settled completely, you can donate blood after 12 hours.
Ink injected into the superficial skin layer would simply come off within 3 weeks. In order to give the ink a permanent home in your body, the tattoo needle must travel through the epidermis into the deeper layer, or the dermis.Jul 14, 2017