Why do tattoos that have been healed for years raise and swell

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Myself and many of my other tattooed friends seem to experience this especially during allergy season. Google seems to have no definitive answer.

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Do you guys use a lot of red ink? I’m designing my first tattoo to get once this whole mess is over and have sensitive af skin, and based on allergies to specific inks, red inks that contain some specific element (Cadmium I think?) can “activate” in sunlight and cause an allergic reaction to the ink. Not sure why it would end after allergy season though.

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