New York, Cell phones or mobile phones as they say is a communication tool that almost everyone has at this time. But it turned out to certain people of this communication tool can cause allergies.
Allergic to cell phones may be caused by nickel metal contained in them. Someone who is allergic will experience a rash that appears in the cheek, jaw or ear simultaneously.
“The increased use of cell phones that do not cause a person contacts have been limited for too long with a nickel on the phone,” said Dr. Luz Fonacier, head of allergy and immunology from Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York, as quoted from HealthDay, Thursday (18 / 11/2010).
The symptoms of allergic cellular phone is usually red and itchy rash in areas exposed to contact with nickel-like face. In fact, it could also affect the fingertips are used to typing messages continuously.
“In severe cases can cause blisters and sores that continues to grow, this is because many patients with nickel allergy did not know the condition was due to cell phone,” said Fonacier who is also professor of clinical medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
In 2000, a researcher in Italy documented cases of rash are the first cellular phone, thus encouraging others to do research on this condition.
Studies in 2008, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, U.S. researchers tested 22 mobile phones that are known as many as 10 phones contain metals. The part that contains most of the nickel is on the menu buttons, decorative logos on headsets and contained metal frame around the LCD (liquid crystal display).
“The case of nickel allergy is caused more by piercings than a mobile phone, hence the rash from cell phones are still not well understood. For it is important for skin and allergy experts to examine it.” said Dr. Stanley M. Fineman, a clinical professor at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
If you have previously been known to have a nickel allergy due to piercings or jewelry, then you should use the phone cover (covers phone), using a hands-free or speaker phone and switch to a phone that does not contain nickel on the surface that touches the skin.