Are you a fashion-conscious woman and love to wear artificial jewellery? But you are fed up of the rashes caused each time you wear a cheap jewellery and fail to understand what`s the reason behind this? Well, Scientists from University of Giessen claim to have found the reason why cheap jewellery cause painful rashes on women`s skin.
Wearing a pair of alloy earrings can produce painful red swelling and blisters for many women.
Coins, belt buckles, and even mobile phones may also cause an unpleasant allergic reaction when they rub against the skin.
The research team claim that the reason behind allergies is that they all contain nickel. Nickel binds to a particular immune-system protein normally involved in detecting harmful invaders, reports dailymail.co.uk.
In susceptible people, this results in the body recognising nickel as an infectious agent and triggering inflammation.
As the immune system goes into overdrive, it produces the classic symptoms of burning, itching, redness, swelling and blisters.
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