MRSA Tips

Tattooing carries risk of MRSA infection and transmission. If you get a tattoo, make sure that the tattooist is licensed and reputable and follows sanitary procedures :

• Washes their hands before tattooing and uses clean gloves
• Cleans the skin to be tattooed
• Uses a single-use, disposable razor to shave the skin to be tattooed, if needed
• Uses single-use sterile needles and tubes and single-use inks
• Covers the tattooed skin with a bandage and provides aftercare instructions