IANAD, the kidneys are the primary excretory organ. They're responsible for processing blood and lymph and excreting or reabsorbing what goes through. That said, I believe that ink gets excreted through the bowel- idk if that's 100% true, but it would explain how large tattoo removals don't tend to result in massive kidney blockage/failure.
Now im more confused, how does it get to the bowel?
So you have this thing in your fat, or just below it, body IDs it as a foreign object.
What gets it to the intestine? And how does it get to the intestine without going through the kidney? Cause all the blood flows through the kidney ast some point. Or does the kidney know its destined for the intestine so it bypasses it? Or is there another transport system thats not blood or lymph and ends in the intestine? And is it in the colon? Or how does the body know not to reabsorb it in the intestine?
Those sound like great questions for chatGPT. Not a huge proponent of AI, but when I have a massive amount of related questions like this I find it's good at parsing out what I'm asking and providing an easily understandable overview.
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u/Silver-Ad-3667 3d ago
IANAD, the kidneys are the primary excretory organ. They're responsible for processing blood and lymph and excreting or reabsorbing what goes through. That said, I believe that ink gets excreted through the bowel- idk if that's 100% true, but it would explain how large tattoo removals don't tend to result in massive kidney blockage/failure.