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Old 12-30-2010, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by maryinaz View Post
Oh no Julie!! Kent was allergic to nickel when he was a baby - not sure how it is now. Neither orthodontist said a word to me about this. Ugh. I hadn't even thought of this! Grant is still allergic to it - I remember when he was a baby and I took off his sleeper and he had little circle marks all down his belly from the snaps - Kent was the same way. Grant still has a problem with belt buckles if they are against his skin (shirt not tucked in). Thank goodness he didn't have to have braces.
Jacob is so allergic to nickel that he can't go to Wonderland (the nickel arcade game place). He walks in and seriously 10 minutes later he is covered in hives! The snaps on jeans, belt buckles like you said, and such give him a ton of problems. We weren't sure if Jacob would do okay with the standard metal in braces, but I couldn't take a chance that the braces would hurt him (over and above their typical pain anyway LOL) because paying for braces twice would have killed me.
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