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iPad Implicated in Pediatric Rashes Diagnosed as Nickel Allergies [Updated]
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Not stupid, while most people use cases, one doesn't and shouldn't have to use one.
I want to sue the United States Treasury and Bank of America. They are somehow responsible for issuing some 5-cent (nickel) coins when I was younger. Damn those evil clowns!
The next iPad will have a peanut-based outer shell.
lol... un-apologetically peanus
As far as I can tell, nickel allergies result in very minor localized contact reactions. If you put peanut allergies (and other high-reaction food allergies) on one end of the spectrum, you'd go through hay fever, poison ivy, and just plain stress before getting to nickel allergies as a source of significant irritation.
That said, hysteria amongst ill-informed parents is always a good thing to bet on. I bet somewhere some PTA board will ban iPads and other metallic-backed devices from school grounds purportedly for this reason. But, I'd hope that doesn't end up being a national fad.
Rare... but true!
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It's not that one is allergic to anything, but some people have very specific allergies to certain stimuli. Allergic reactions to metal are somewhat common.
Also many people could have the allergy potential but limited exposure won't induce a reaction. The article states that the child was using his iPad with increased frequency, this could have aggregate what would have been a relatively mild reaction.
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I knew someone would work peanuts into this thread!
hmm... yeah.. allergies.. peanuts kind of worked themselves in.
How about the GMOS?
I'd look into the Genetically modified foods this and most kids are eating
before I'd pin this solely on Apple!
Most countries don't even allow the food experiments that are allowed in
the US on the population.
I'd look into the Genetically modified foods this and most kids are eating
before I'd pin this solely on Apple!
Most countries don't even allow the food experiments that are allowed in
the US on the population.
There. Problem solved.
Next Headline: Apple Sued by "Mom's for America", others to follow
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I'd look into the Genetically modified foods this and most kids are eating
before I'd pin this solely on Apple!
Most countries don't even allow the food experiments that are allowed in
the US on the population.
Amen. People really need to examine Monsanto and Dow, I dismissed these claims years ago until more information came forward. Some scary **** they're doing. Patenting corn that can pollinate and grow in any climate, inevitably a failing farm due to climate change/drought, sue the farm for using "their" patented corn, buy the farm, grow more modified crap. Yup, capitalism at its ugliest.
Typically US nonsense: 1 out of 4 billion people react allergicly to an iPad and whoops there is front page news; get a life!
I'd look into the Genetically modified foods this and most kids are eating
before I'd pin this solely on Apple!
Most countries don't even allow the food experiments that are allowed in
the US on the population.
Watch out, those genetically-modified-food-eating kids become the Apple engineers of tomorrow. Most countries don't even birth the type of companies such as Apple.
Depends on what you call an "allergy", but you are probably more right than he is.
What you are born with is a propensity for allergies (or not). If one of your parents is highly susceptible to developing allergic reactions, then you have a 33% chance of yourself being highly susceptible; if both are then you have a 70% chance of yourself being highly susceptible.
How that susceptibility manifests is believed to be primarily a result of contact with irritants:
1. How old / mature your nervous system is when you make contact. Allergen susceptibility appears to diminish with age (highest susceptibility as a child, leading to lessened susceptibility as adults).
2. How much of the irritant you come into contact with. More is worse.
3. How often you come into contact with the irritant / how many times you have come into contact with the irritant. More often and higher frequencies are worse.
4. As yet undetermined conditions existing at time of exposure. A lot of allergen study is going into what increases / decreases the risk of a particular irritant exposure leading to long-term allergic reactivity to that irritant.
If you are allergy-prone (and you probably know if you are), you should be avoiding long-term exposure to irritants (and should add nickel to that list). If you are allergy-prone and have a child, you should be looking out for the child because he is likely to be allergy-prone as well.
Worldwide, about 1 in 10 women are nickel sensitive.
Cute. Of course the difference is that coins are rarely held next to the skin for very long.
Duration makes a big difference in how strong the reaction is.
It's why wearing blue jeans with a nickel plated button gives a reaction, but holding a nickel coin for a few seconds does not. Ditto for something like a tablet, which is often held for a long time.
That said, since a cover takes care of it, case... err... closed.
That must be some heavy nickel allergy. It's not like the iPad casing is made of 50 % Nickel or something (I heard of people having a reaction from nickel plated rings or other jewellery after wearing those for a longer time. And that is like days of wearing and 100% nickel). I'd estimate there's 1% nickel in that alloy tops, but likely less.
Ouch. I assume you really mean "allergy", not "intolerance" (lactose-intolerance, which is very different from an allergic reaction, seems to often commonly get called a "milk allergy"). Milk and soy causing problems (intolerance or allergies) must be very difficult to deal with, since soy is the most common milk-substitute!
Of you only could see me now...
Btw now it's like protection from the iPad and no longer for the iPad
The earlier ones were machines aluminum alloy and it looks like they swotched to a stamped Stainless Steel type alloy. That's the inintended consequence of rapidly changing materials.
I suppose it will be easy fix for apple (have chassis made with slightly different alloy composition)... but with two issues: does it hold up soon to be released devices to make a change, and would it even help/matter (someone is always going to have an allergy to something).
It's all fine and dandy that there's a good cause to this article, but that's definitely not the reason it was published. To put it in south park terms;
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!
Then start using a case once you notice a rash. Or use one anyway because it'll otherwise keep slipping out of your hands due to its tapered edges. This is a real non-issue.