Body Piercing and Its Complications: A Case Study

Carver, Athena; Morphis, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.nurpra.2005.11.018

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“…Compared with the precious metal materials for jewelry, fashion jewelry materials use nickel more extensively and their corrosion resistances are weaker, which make the greater probability of nickel ions releasing and nickel allergies [7]. In addition, piercing is prone to causing infection since the injured local tissues keep constant contacting with the piercing jewelry and suffering from its friction, they are apt to be contaminated by dust, mould or bacteria and consequently infected, resulting in pruritus, red, swollen, papula or bleb around the earlobe hole, even causing fester or anabrosis [8][9]. Especially some students' health concepts are not clear and care the puncture wound improperly, thus the wound is prone to infection and will directly affect the healing time.…”

Section: Allergy and Complicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prevalence of Allergy and Complications Caused by Jewelry among Higher Vocational College Students

Yuan

Chen

Wan

2014

AMR

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Allergy and complications caused by jewelry are prevalent among overseas college students, while there has no relevant study in China. To survey the prevalence of this problem among college students, questionnaire was designed and students randomly from three higher vocational colleges in south China joined this survey. The results show that 32.3% students have ever worn jewelry. The proportion of wearing jewelry is different for various specialties, which shows business students rank the highest, Arts and science &engineering students follow successively, while medical students keep in the last. Necklace, ring and bracelet are the main jewelry types worn by students. 1.3% boys and 10.2% girls have ever worn piercing jewelry, and ear is the dominant piercing site, which accounts for 93.1% overall. Among those students who have ever worn metal jewelry, 3.6% boys and 13.7% girls have ever suffered jewelry allergy or complications, which is mainly caused by costume jewelry and piercing jewelry.

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Section: Allergy and Complicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%