Reactions to some gel nails leave permanent pain in the hands

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Lisa Dewey’s hands from Northamptsonshire, England, were almost completely useless after suffering a strong allergic reaction to gel nails they put on him, something that had never happened to him.

Lisa, a mother of two, said she spent years doing gel manicures without ever noticing a problem until last February. Fingers begin to swell and nails peel.

the doctor diagnosed it bacterial infection

The 36-year-old woman didn’t understand what was happening to her, so she immediately went to the doctor, who diagnosed her with a bacterial infection. The doctor prescribed one antibiotic cream on steroids to see if it gets better.

Despite the agony of her nails, Lisa decides to get another manicure because she doesn’t like the look she left, but it was a big mistake. Her fingers got worse and now barely able to move arms for the pain he felt, according to what he gathered Daily mail.

The woman, who works as a janitor in the UK Health system, has found it allergy to the product brought by gel nails, something that is more common than it seems and in recent years has increased exponentially.

I’ve been doing my nails my whole life with acrylics or gels and that’s why when it first happened I thought it was a bacterial infection” he explained.

Dermatologist Warn

Lisa even claims that it all “happened out of the blue”. he was afraid of losing one of his fingers that “turns purple around the nails”

Dermatologists warn against chemical components gel nails, known as methacrylates, seep into the skin and cause the nails to fall off in the mildest cases, in the most severe cases you may even be deprived of oxygen and develop a lifelong sensitivity to chemical products.

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