Jewelry Allergy

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A jewelry allergy can be recognized, that occur during or after wearing of jewelry skin reactions.
Even little girls wear earrings and thus play unconsciously with her femininity. Jewelry is the most important accessory, upgrade their own wardrobe. Unfortunately, the wearing of jewelry for many people has unpleasant consequences. It seems that responds more strongly by the increasing environmental pollution and the human body in a variety of processing waste from the jewelry with a jewelry allergy.

Jewelry Processing
The cause of many allergies occur in connection with jewelry is the way how jewelry is made. Many metals are in their original texture not suitable to be made into jewelry. The precious metal gold, for example, very soft and could not be converted into pieces of jewelry in its original form. For this reason, other, less noble metals are added to make it more robust. This is called an alloy.Alloys are compounds of various metals that are brought together to enhance the properties of the individual components. A well known alloy is yellow gold.It is largely made of silver, for this precious metal has a higher chemical resistance than pure gold.

Nickel allergy widespread
Many people can not wear jewelry without hesitation, because sometimes it happens that jewelry leads to allergic reactions. The most famous jewelry allergy is linked to the metal nickel. Dermatologists estimate that about one in five people, most of them women, have suffered from this form of jewelry allergy. Such an allergy can already occur after the initial contact with the exogenous substance or take years to fully carrying.

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Causes and symptoms
When nickel jewelry allergy is a contact allergy, which means a contact with the metal it comes to skin reactions to varying degrees. Perspiration plays a very important role. When the body begins to produce sweat, this gets even under the gem.
The contained nickel dissolves and create so-called nickel salts. This in turn react with the skin and cause allergic reactions. The body reaction to the foreign substance range from itching, aching over water-filled bubbles, to large-area skin rash.

What to do when we have a jewelry allergy?
If adopted by the dermatologist, a nickel allergy, it is necessary to avoid any contact with the allergenic substance. That means not only to the affected jewelry refrain, but also the skin contact with other nickel-containing objects is avoided. In addition to buttons and zippers are nickel is also found in eyeglass frames, belt buckles or cookware. Fashion-conscious people have to do without jewelry. Goldsmiths manufacture of individual nickel jewelry. Even high-quality gold and platinum jewelry is used because these materials are allergenic to a small degree. The higher the gold or platinum content in a piece of jewelry, the lower is also the risk of an allergic reaction.

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