Due to the bruising experienced during the process of getting a tattoo, the skin tends to secrete a fluid which forms tiny drops on the surface. In a normal situation, the blood particles in the fluid would dry on the surface and end up looking like black specs, this situation would be most likely to result if you didn’t bother the bruises. The fluid would dry on the surface along with the particles and then form what most people know as a scab. The skin would eventually heal despite the various problems otherwise if the process is disturbed or interrupted, you might have to deal with healing a tattoo which is infected.

Minimal damage would more or less meet with a rate of healing which is proportional to the amount of moisture that the tattoo is exposed to. A number of healing ointments can be used to promote the needed atmosphere required for the tattoo to heal and these ointments include: Bacitracin Zinc, A & D Ointment and Petroleum. Petroleum found in all these products tends to mean that air or water will not penetrate the skin surface, what this then results in is the best healing situation.

When a tattoo is just finished there is generally no oozing and the surface is relatively dry so when a petroleum product is applied droplets of fluid will begin to appear because the body is producing exudates. Exudates are necessary to create an environment which stimulates rapid wound healing. A wound maintained in a moist environment with exudates has a lower infection rate than a wound which is dry.

It was formerly thought that petroleum based ointments affected a tattoo in a negative manner by causing the ink to dissolve from the skin but scientific research has proven that this fact is not true. The constant application of antibacterial medication is also not good for the healing process. You can apply ointment and plastic wrapping to your tattoo when you go to sleep or go to bathe for a number of days as this will help protect your tattoo under these circumstances.

Tattoos may get infected for a whole number of reasons and usually when these reasons occur various symptoms tend to indicate that a tattoo is infected, these symptoms include: Increased pain, swelling, redness, heat, or tenderness around the tattoo, red streaks extending from the area, pus coming from the wound, swollen or tender lymph nodes, or fever.

Infection may start at the tattoo and usually clear or clear-yellow fluid that drains from an infected tattoo may change to creamy yellow, brown, or red or look or smell like pus. Infection may also occur deep inside the wound, with few noticeable signs at the site. Pain and swelling may develop. This is a definite sign that you have to heal the infected tattoo.

Sometimes the skin over a tattoo may heal but an infection may be present in the depths of the wound, this would usually result in a more serious situation such as an abscess. Failure to heal this infected tattoo may lead to it spreading within the bones or joints and it may become septic and infect the whole body.

Usually you will need an antibiotic to heal the infected tattoo; a doctor may also recommend that you take blood tests depending on the particular circumstances under which you received the tattoo. An infected tattoo should be treated by keeping it dry as much as possible, water tends to be the greatest enemy of a healing tattoo.

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