after she put them on , her ears got itching, swelling, and pierced parts of her ears

outflow pus. Hospital dermatologist diagnosed that she had contact dermatitis.

According to dermatologist introduction, contact dermatitis caused by wearing metal

ornaments is usually called the "jewelry disease." This is because susceptible contacts

ornaments containing some metals, such as nickel and chromium，which induce allergic

reactions. Chromium and nickel are the most common allergic sources of contact dermatitis

in recent years, and the ratio of chromium and nickel allergic females to males is about 10

to 1. About 9.3% of China dermatology patients are caused by wearing ornaments. Common

jewelry, such as rings, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets, watches, spectacle frames, underwear clasp and metal

lines contained scarf, all contains chromium and nickel and makes directly contacted skin

get inflammation. Its main symptoms are a sense of itching and burning sensation, but it

can also appear erythema, papules, erosion and so on, the worst may manifest ulcers, asthma

or urticaria, and systemic disease. Some people’s allergic symptoms only manifest in the

jewelry contacted skin, such as ears, neck, wrists, fingers, etc.; there may be systemic

allergic reactions to some others. First, skin becomes inflamed and then small papules and

hydroa come, making the whole body extremely uncomfortable. Under normal circumstances,

jewelry caused allergic reactions can be cured by the use of some drugs on the outer skin.

However, if the skin is stimualted repeatedly by the inflammation, it may induce malignant

lesions and even cancers.

②Bacteria’s Seedbed

The skin covered by rings are not easy to clean and will become a breeding bed for

bacteria. Hoffman,a microbiologists of the UK Central Public Health Laboratory, did a five

months’ survey to 50 females who had long-term wearing of gold rings. It is said that

bacteria’s quantity in the place coverd by rings is 9 times higher than no rings places.

In addition, if the ring wears too tight, it will impact finger blood circulation,

resulting in finger deformity.

Doctors piont out that not all jewelry has allergic reactions to susceptible. Pure gold and

silver jewelry or high-grade jade jewelry rarely cause allergy, while some low-grade

decorative jewelry or chemical treated jade ornaments were easily lead to allergic

reactions. Therefore, susceptible population should avoid wearing gold-plated, silver-

plated, chromium, nickel or other easily triggering dermatitis ornaments. Nickel silver and

chrome alloy ornaments should not be worn often. Susceptible, especially children, should

not wear metal ornaments. Jewelry should not be worn often in summer because of sweating.

Rings should not wear

too tight, not to use wool wound ring. To avoid wearing jewelry all day and night,

devloping the habit of taking jewelry off at night. No ornaments night can not only rest

the skin but also reduce harmful radioactive sources by half. Some people are too lazy to

remove earing accessories when they are sleeping, which will inevitably cause post-

auricular skin injuries. Also some others like to sleep with their watches put on. On one

hand, it is not conducive to the arm blood circulation, on the other hand, if the watch is

luminous, the fluorescent radiation will cause injury to the body.

Tips: Jewelry should be washed often and

worn regularly.

No matter how beautiful the jewelry is, it can not be worn all the time, otherwise it may

be harmful to your health. For example, some people wear rings in their hands all the year

round, as a result, the fingers skin is tight hooped by rings; muscles and bones sunken

into a ring malformation, affecting blood circulation. The fingers will become numb, acid

swelling, pain, or even partial necrosis. So one should not wear rings too tight, and

should take them off his fingers often and do some add-activities. Some girls do not take

off their earrings when they sleep. Cheeks would be easily hurt by the metal hook on the earrings or a hard

object in that way.

Moreover, long-term wearing jewelry, the skin around it is difficult to clean. Especially

in summer when there will be a large number of human perspiration. If one does not pay much

attention to sanitation, pathogenic microorganisms are easy to reproduce in this breed, or

intrusion into the skin, affecting his health.

Experts warn that the often-worn jewelry must be took off often and cleaned. This can not

only maintain the jewelry itself bright and clean as new, but also very useful to the

health of the keepers. It is worth noting that jewelry cleaning has many taboos, it may

damage jewelry itself if it is treated incorrectly. It’d better invite professional

cleaning staff to carry out the maintenance.

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