“Unexplained rash? Check your iPad,” Lindsey Tanner reports for The Associated Press. “It turns out the popular tablet computer may contain nickel, one of the most common allergy-inducing metals.”
“Recent reports in medical journals detail nickel allergies from a variety of personal electronic devices, including laptops and cellphones,” Tanner reports. “But it was an Apple iPad that caused an itchy body rash in an 11-year-old boy recently treated at a San Diego hospital, according to a report in Monday’s Pediatrics.”
“Doctors tested the device and detected a chemical compound found in nickel in the iPad’s outside coating,” Tanner reports. “‘He used the iPad daily,’ she said. He got better after putting it in a protective case, she said.”
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