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| <html><div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" id="mw-content-text" lang="en"><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:Metal_Allergy-1.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" height="174" src="/images/thumb/3/3e/Metal_Allergy-1.jpg/150px-Metal_Allergy-1.jpg" width="150"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a class="internal" href="/index.php?title=File:Metal_Allergy-1.jpg" title="Enlarge"><img alt="" height="11" src="/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15"/></a></div>Metal Allergy</div></div></div>
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| <p>When you put <a href="/index.php?title=Body_Jewelry" title="Body Jewelry">jewelry</a> in your body (or even wear it, as with a watch), there is some transfer of material from the jewelry to your body. Usually this is simply absorbed and disposed of or sloughed off as waste along with dead skin and is inconsequential. However, some individuals will display varying degrees of sensitivity to different metals - a <b>metal allergy</b>.
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| </p><p>Today, a sensitivity to nickel is the most common, and said to be on the rise along with reactions to <a href="/index.php?title=Latex_Allergy" title="Latex Allergy">latex</a>.
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| </p><p>For a person with a metal allergy, <a href="/index.php?title=Piercing" title="Piercing">piercings</a> performed using that metal (or using an alloy containing that metal) will either take longer to heal, or, less commonly, react aggressively with the jewelry. Symptoms include redness and swelling around the piercing and dry cracked skin on the sore. You can differentiate it from other problems because it will look like the skin is trying to "pull away" from the jewelry, and the redness will extend <i>around</i> the jewelry in all directions more so than simply along the <a href="/index.php?title=Fistula" title="Fistula">fistula</a>.
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| </p><p>This problem almost exclusively happens with <a href="/index.php?title=Stainless_Steel" title="Stainless Steel">stainless steel</a> jewelry due to the nickel content, and the easiest solution is to use <a href="/index.php?title=Titanium" title="Titanium">titanium</a> or <a href="/index.php?title=Niobium" title="Niobium">niobium</a>. Switching to <a href="/index.php?title=Gold" title="Gold">gold</a> will usually not help because gold in body jewelry is an typically made of an alloy which tends to contain nickel and other metals prone to reactions. <a href="/index.php?title=Passivate" title="Passivate">Passivated</a> jewelry is also an option depending on the level of allergy.
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| | | A '''nape piercing''' is a piercing on the nape (back) of the neck. It is most commonly pierced using a [[Surface Bar]], but even [[Nylon]] piercings have been known to heal here. It is perfectly safe and does not put nerves at risk. This piercing, as with many surface piercings, is prone to [[Rejection]]. |
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Latest revision as of 08:23, 17 September 2023
A nape piercing is a piercing on the nape (back) of the neck. It is most commonly pierced using a Surface Bar, but even Nylon piercings have been known to heal here. It is perfectly safe and does not put nerves at risk. This piercing, as with many surface piercings, is prone to Rejection.
