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Jon

Jon

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I didn't even know of this till I saw it on the Internet. I'm ashamed...

A MOTHER is blaming body piercing for the death of her 17-year-old son, who contracted a fatal dose of blood poisoning after having a ring put through his lip.

For eight long weeks Christina Anderson, 41, had to watch her son, Daniel Hindle, die a slow and agonising death, after he was struck down by septicaemia.
Ms Anderson, of Carvale Drive, Richmond, Sheffield, believes Daniel contracted the disease as a direct result of having his lip pierced at a Sheffield studio.
A-level student Daniel and his 18-year-old girlfriend, Naomi Storey, each decided to have part of their body pierced in October. He chose a lip ring and she a ring for her eyebrow.
But just days after getting his lip pierced, Daniel began vomiting uncontrollably and shaking with fever. Within a week he was in intensive care, being treated for blood poisoning.
Naomi's piercing also became infected, although far less seriously.
Now Ms Anderson is planning to launch a campaign to highlight the dangers of body piercings.
She is also planning to sue the shop where the teenagers were pierced.
She said: "Daniel was an ordinary boy, wanting to do all the things teenagers do. When he told me he wanted to have his lip pierced, I honestly didn't think he would do it, as teenagers are always saying they are going to do things.
"Even when he had it done, I didn't think anything of it, loads of teenagers are getting pierced. The world has gone piercing crazy. I was completely ignorant of the danger Daniel had put himself in.
"Had I known then what I know now, I would never have let Daniel do it. He would not have wanted it done either. If I had had all the facts and was aware of all the pitfalls, this would not have happened."
Daniel was born with one of his heart valves missing and had to undergo emergency surgery twice before the age of five.
Although he had been given a clean bill of health by heart consultants in September, Ms Anderson believes Daniel's heart condition speeded up his death.
"He was healthy and normal like every other teenager, but he could not fight infections to quite the same extent," added his mother.
"It is clear to me that Daniel's condition contributed greatly. But nowhere is there any warning of this potential danger. Instead he had to die a terrible death from a horrible, horrible disease. If can stop one more teenager going through this, then I will."
Daniel, who leaves four brothers and a sister, died just before Christmas on December 21. His funeral was held on Monday, at St Catherine's Church in Sheffield.
Peter Holden, a GP in Matlock, Derbyshire, and a member of the British Medical Association's national GP committee, last night equated Daniel's death to soldiers dying from shrapnel wounds in the First World War.
He said more should be done to stop piercings being carried out in non-sterile environments, such as fashion shops.
He said: "Deaths have been reported, but this is the first one I have been told about directly. But this is nothing other than shrapnel causing a wound. The history books are full of this. I think people too often equate having ears pierced with having their lips pierced.
"But this is not like piercing your ears. This is a very different ball game. You are piercing large chunks of body which have large blood supplies. This is not to be done light-heartedly, and some of us would argue it should not be done at all.
"In this particular piercing you puncture the inside lining of the mouth and the outside skin, creating a tunnel through the tissues, through which infections from outside world or the mouth can get straight to the bloodstream. These can travel straight into some of the major blood vessels of the body, and so any infection can rapidly spread."
He added anyone with a pre-existing condition such as Daniel's is definitely more at risk.
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Daniel was one of my (and my brother's) school mates. I feel absolutely gutted. God knows how his family must be feeling. :mope:
 
Sorry RL:(

Body piercing can be so dangerous. My stepdaughter got her cartilage part of her ear pierced when she was 13. She ended up having 2 surgeries and IV antibiotics for 10 days. Her ear is permanently disfigured....and after reading that article, I guess she was lucky. I sued the hair salon that did it to her and won.
 
Thanks guys :)

It just really angers me that regulations surrounding this area are not tight enough... Daniel was a cracking guy and it shouldn't have happened to him at all. His brother was like I am with my brother. We beat the hell outta them but at the end of the day, we'd stick up for them no matter what. He's gonna be distraught.

I think more publicity is needed, highlighting the need for stricter controls regarding body piercing.

It's just a typical example of the incompetency of Sheffield City Council, and it rubs me up the wrong way.
 
Q said:
Sorry RL:(

Body piercing can be so dangerous. My stepdaughter got her cartilage part of her ear pierced when she was 13. She ended up having 2 surgeries and IV antibiotics for 10 days. Her ear is permanently disfigured....and after reading that article, I guess she was lucky. I sued the hair salon that did it to her and won.
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condolences to that mother so sad. i wonder how clean the place was that he got pierced as well as your stepdaughter Q. people get pierced without probs much of the time if not most. but to get a tat or pierce make sure its clean. :ashamed: so sad
 
I'm sorry for your loss RL.

There should at least have been a warning that anyone with a heart condition or past heart surgery should not have body piercings because it can lead to bacterial endocarditis. Keeping the area clean makes no difference as it is the act of piercing that introduces the bugs into the blood stream. This is a fact which is not publicised enough - if it's not law then it should be.

Katie is banned from having piercings. And cannot have fillings or any other form of dental treatment without antibiotic cover.
 
Q said:
Sorry RL:(

Body piercing can be so dangerous. My stepdaughter got her cartilage part of her ear pierced when she was 13. She ended up having 2 surgeries and IV antibiotics for 10 days. Her ear is permanently disfigured....and after reading that article, I guess she was lucky. I sued the hair salon that did it to her and won.
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I know this is an old thread...don't hurt me...

But, anyway...even though Q isn't around to respond I wanna say something about this just as an FYI to anyone planning to get their cartilege done. I had mine done last Dec 28th and have not have any problems with it aside from soreness up until a few months ago (takes a year to heal 100%). The reason I am replying to Q's post is because she says her step daughter got her cartilage done in a hair salon...this more than likely means it was pierced with a gun. One should NEVER get their cartilage pierced with a gun because the gun just pushes a blunt earring through which causes a non smooth hole...you're just ripping the flesh. This isn't a huge deal if you're doing your lobes and never plan to stretch the holes but it causes mega problems a lot of the time with cartilage piercing. When you get pierced at a professional piercing parlour it costs a lot more (I paid $50 CDN while at a salon I could have got it for $20 or less) but they use a hollow needle which goes smoothly through the ear and actually removes a very small portion of flesh for the hole. I made sure I reserached before I went for my piercing and I made sure I went somewhere that I heard many good and no bad word of mouth reviews about as well as somewhere that I felt comfortable from the time I arrived there. The cartilage takes a long time to heal (as I said) and getting it done with a gun increases the healing time as well as causes excess trauma to the tissue and this is often the cause of disfigurments and complications.

So, in short, body piercing, although it has the potential to be very dangerous, can be a safe and fun practice if you research it properly. I knew exactly what kind of procedure should be followed and exactly what to look for when I went to get my caritlage done. That way if anything was out of place I could have stopped the process and left. I saw everything come out of it's sealed sterile packages, I saw he change her gloves like 3 times, I knew what to expect and watched for it. As with anything, not being informed is the highest risk a person takes.

And while I agree that there should be more warnigns about increased risks to people with certain conditions and it is a tragedy what happened to that poor boy body piercing in general should not be labelled as bad.
 
I've got two cartilage piercings in my upper left ear, that I got done with a gun. Never had any problems. :shrug: My friend got her belly button pierced as well with her friend's piercing gun.... which I thought was a bit more dodgy. My tongue was pierced at the tattooists, with a needle.
 
BeardofPants said:
I've got two cartilage piercings in my upper left ear, that I got done with a gun. Never had any problems. :shrug: My friend got her belly button pierced as well with her friend's piercing gun.... which I thought was a bit more dodgy. My tongue was pierced at the tattooists, with a needle.
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It is possible to have no complications with a gun piercing but the chances of complications are through the roof compared to needles.
 
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