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(Created page with "<html><div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" id="mw-content-text" lang="en"><p><br/> <i>What will happen to your body <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Jewelry" title="Jewelry">jewelry</a> when you die? Will it go in the trash? Will it be given to your next of kin? Or will it be buried with you?</i> </p><p>The answers to these questions are largely dictated by your next of kin, since few people include it in their will (and, like organ donations, it's a questi...")
 
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<i>What will happen to your body <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Jewelry" title="Jewelry">jewelry</a> when you die? Will it go in the trash? Will it be given to your next of kin? Or will it be buried with you?</i>
</p><p>The answers to these questions are largely dictated by your next of kin, since few people include it in their will (and, like organ donations, it's a question that may be left to the next of kin no matter what your wishes, documented or not, may be). In most cases, piercings below the neck will simply be left in unless other directions are specifically given. Whether you are "prepared" with your facial jewelry or not is usually left up to your next of kin (as they answer questions on what you should be wearing and how your hair should be styled and so on). If the funeral is strictly closed-casket, they're usually left in.
</p><p>If the jewelry is in when you go into the coffin for "display", you will be buried with it in as well (unless it's removed at the funeral for some reason). If you are being cremated the jewelry will usually be removed.
</p><p>All in all, though, be sure that your next of kin knows your wishes, because after you're dead, they call the shots!
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When you put [[Body Jewelry|jewelry]] 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 '''metal allergy'''.


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Today, a sensitivity to nickel is the most common, and said to be on the rise along with reactions to [[Latex Allergy|latex]].
 
For a person with a metal allergy, [[Piercing|piercings]] 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 ''around'' the jewelry in all directions more so than simply along the [[Fistula|fistula]].
 
This problem almost exclusively happens with [[Stainless Steel|stainless steel]] jewelry due to the nickel content, and the easiest solution is to use [[Titanium|titanium]] or [[Niobium|niobium]]. Switching to [[Gold|gold]] 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. [[Passivate|Passivated]] jewelry is also an option depending on the level of allergy.
 
== See Also ==
* [[Passivation]]

Latest revision as of 07:59, 17 September 2023

Metal Allergy

When you put jewelry 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 metal allergy.

Today, a sensitivity to nickel is the most common, and said to be on the rise along with reactions to latex.

For a person with a metal allergy, piercings 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 around the jewelry in all directions more so than simply along the fistula.

This problem almost exclusively happens with stainless steel jewelry due to the nickel content, and the easiest solution is to use titanium or niobium. Switching to gold 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. Passivated jewelry is also an option depending on the level of allergy.

See Also