{"id":726603,"date":"2010-04-29T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:32:22","slug":"dont-let-your-manicurist-file-down-your-nerve-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/726603","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let Your Manicurist File Down Your Nerve Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/manicure-thumb-200x133-39844.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Consumer Reports Health medical adviser Orly Avitzur, M.D. has both a medical practice and a lovely set of manicured nails. It&#8217;s this combination that gave her unique insight into the possible problems with manicures that are purportedly fancy &#8220;gel manicures,&#8221; but are actually <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.consumerreports.org\/health\/2010\/04\/manicures-the-price-may-be-higher-than-it-seems-risks-of-gel-nail-manicures-.html?EXTKEY=I91CONL&#038;CMP=OTC-ConsumeristLinks\" >something else more dangerous entirely. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And there are plenty of other chemicals to be concerned about. A US Environmental Protection Agency guide, produced to warn nail salon workers, indicates twenty chemicals found in nail glue, polish, hardeners, additives, powders or removers. A medical literature search shows that, in general, several of them&#8212;ethyl cyanoacrylate, formalin, toluene, and MMA&#8212;have been shown to induce neuropathy and can cause one or more of the following: irritation of the eyes, skin, mucous membranes, respiratory tract, or damage the kidneys or liver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ten warning signs to watch out for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your salon uses bottles in unmarked containers<\/li>\n<li>The technician cannot tell you what&#8217;s in the products<\/li>\n<li>The products smell unusually strong or have a strange odor<\/li>\n<li>Your skin is being abraded or cut<\/li>\n<li>The salon is not clean<\/li>\n<li>The instruments are not sterilized<\/li>\n<li> Licenses for the salon and individual operators are not visibly posted<\/li>\n<li> Your skin or nails hurt<\/li>\n<li> The gels do not soak off easily in solvents designed to remove acrylics<\/li>\n<li> You see swelling, redness or other signs of infection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.consumerreports.org\/health\/2010\/04\/manicures-the-price-may-be-higher-than-it-seems-risks-of-gel-nail-manicures-.html?EXTKEY=I91CONL&#038;CMP=OTC-ConsumeristLinks\" >Manicures: The price may be higher than it seems <\/a> [Consumer Reports Health]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer Reports Health medical adviser Orly Avitzur, M.D. has both a medical practice and a lovely set of manicured nails. It&#8217;s this combination that gave her unique insight into the possible problems with manicures that are purportedly fancy &#8220;gel manicures,&#8221; but are actually something else more dangerous entirely. And there are plenty of other chemicals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-331p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827846,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726603\/revisions\/827846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}