Timeline for Is plastic significantly less likely to cause allergies than metal, paper, acrylic or bamboo
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| Oct 26, 2019 at 13:55 | comment | added | Laurel | @RayButterworth We live in the US but my mom has a nickel allergy and she says that she handles nickel-containing coins as briefly as possible. I would guess that most women discover they have the allergy through jewelry, which is hours of skin contact. Like all allergies, the severity of the reaction varies. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 13:31 | comment | added | Laurel | @ReinstateMonica--Brondahl-- The other answer talked about PPD and benzoyl peroxide which I don’t believe are found in straws. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 13:30 | comment | added | GEdgar | "Aardvark makes bendy paper straws" ... I have tried those Aardvark straws. The bendiness is somewhat less useful than the bendiness of plastic straws. But I do seem to recall from my childhood (1950s) that there were really good bendy paper straws. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 13:10 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | Nickel allergy's being "a pretty common allergy" is somewhat surprising. 4 of Canada's 5 most common coins are plated with 99% nickel. If it's true that "17% of women" are allergic to nickel, why haven't we heard from those 3 million Canadian women with allergies? I'm not saying nickel allergy doesn't exist, only that (except for those few individuals that actually suffer from it) it can't be anywhere near as significant as stated. | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 6:41 | comment | added | Brondahl | Nice answer, setting the base-line for the claim that other materials cause allergies, though! | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 6:40 | comment | added | Brondahl | There was previously an answer from someone who suffered from plastic allergies, citing the details of their allergy. Alas that answer appears to have been deleted (perhaps because personal experience isn't appropriate in this SE? IDK, I don't spend so much time in this SE.) You have a high rep; does that let you get at deleted answers? If so, could you post the sections that cite the details of the allergies as a comment, so that other can use it as a jumping-off point? | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 2:38 | history | answered | Laurel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |