Attention to economic jewelry earrings may trigger nickel allergy

Let’s go back to speak of nickel allergy and its causes. Contact with Earrings and other jewelry Economic jewelry (The kind you can buy for a few dollars even in markets and street stalls) is one of the main factors onset of this form of allergic skin, And for this reason, a British study pushes the possible buyers to be very attention. They are mostly very young girls to be risk to develop this annoying allergy, because of the massive use of jewelry that also contains small quantities.

In fact it is the contact Prolonged and frequent materials Nickel base that determines the onset of disease because this metal is released in small amounts in skin, Originating in the long run, the reaction organism.

The research was conducted just analyzing several samples of cheap jewelry, all of which earrings cost ranged from a minimum of 1 € to a maximum of 12, recovered from both businesses, which stands (those outdoor markets) of two European cities: London and Warsaw. The jewels were analyzed to discover the presence of nickel, and eventually tested positive for about 15% of UK samples and 18% of those Poles.

“We chose London and Warsaw as they represent two nations enter the European Community or very soon (in 1973, Britain), or between the last (in 2004, Poland), but we did not find substantial differences – Thissen said Jacob, a signatory of the study published in the The Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Veneorology – What we can recommend is to address the big chain stores where we found a greater security of products offered.”

European legislation about prevention of allergy to nickel, and subsequent composition of costume jewelry to be free metal allergy, Dates back to 1994, but evidently it is still widely rejected. So, better to follow the advice of researchers and protect themselves, buying earrings and jewelry metal as a guarantee that we have the words “Nickel free“.