Rose Rimler
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It showed some hints of some immune system weirdness in mice.
It wasn't looking at long-term issues in real people.
So zooming out to other studies, we do start to see that this activation of the immune system might be a problem for some people.
I read this case study, a guy from Poland.
He had a full-blown immune reaction to his tattoo four months after he got it.
That's like a skin, a change in the color of your skin.
And he had to get the tattoo essentially cut out of his arm.
There's another series of cases that was published recently in Australia about people who got this allergic reaction to their tattoo ink and it attacked their eyes.
And some of them even had vision loss.
Those examples are extreme and they're not that common.
But in general, we do see a lot of allergic reactions to tattoos.
Just typically it's confined to the skin.