Is It Safe To Get Pregnant if I Am In Treatment of Eyebrow Tatto Removal?

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Hi! Right know I am in laser eyebrow tatto removed and I would like to know I can get pregnant during the treatment or if I need to wait antil I finish with it?

Jason D. Bloom, MD, FACS · Answer

I would most definitely wait until you have had the baby and are not breast feeding to continue with the tattoo removal.  Besides the potential risks of the anesthetic (lidocaine) to the fetus and baby, tattoo ink is unregulated and it could be potentially harmful as it is broken down with the laser.  Personally, we don't treat anyone who is pregnant or breast feeding with our tattoo lasers.

Sanusi Umar, MD · Answer

It is probably best to reduce the risk of complications and wait until after your pregnancy to resume your laser tattoo removal treatments.

Russell Kridel, MD · Answer

When lasers are used for tattoo removal, we usually use a local anesthetic topically and sometimes inject the area with lidocaine with or without epinephrine. All such anesthetics can achieve blood levels elsewhere in the body, so that might not be safe for the fetus especially if the tattoo covers a large area. Additionally, even if you decide to have the tattoo lasered without any local anesthesia, say just using a cooling device, the healing of the site could be altered. I personally will not do any scar revisions on pregnant females because they tend to heal with hypertrophic scars in my experience.

T. Wayne Day, MD · Answer

The health of you and a future baby are a very good thing to be concerned about. I am not aware of any problems that have occurred with pregnancy as a result of tattoo removal. Since you have already had treatments, you should be able to assess how hard or easy the treatments are on you. After a couple of treatments, most all of my patients say and act like it is not big deal. But if the treatments have been stressful to you, then that should give you pause.

	The other big factor is the medico-legal aspect. Since this is an elective procedure, many doctors and clinics may decide not to offer any such treatments during pregnancy. That may not make sense from your perspective, but many policies are set by legal rather than medical precautions.

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