NICKEL ALLERGY AND NICKEL CONTACT ECZEMA

Eczema as well as allergic reactions of different kind are to explain only for a part of contacts with nickel-containing objects. For the pr esent diagnostic possibilities do offer an adequate anamnesis as well as epicutan-tests and oral provocations with nickel-sulphate. In this context essential points of view of food-associated nickel allergy wil l be discussed and as therapeutic consequence the possibility of a nic kel-reduced food. Apart from the main nickel sources for the people th e importance of earrings as causing and arrangement of the complex of symptoms ''nickel allergy'' has to be examined.