More and more children are wearing gold and silver jewelry. On the one hand, it is caused by traditional customs, such as the child's full moon or 100 days, the elders in the family will buy gold locks, silver locks, or gold and silver bracelets for the children, which means the healthy growth of the children and also expresses the care of the elders for the children.
On the other hand, under the vigorous publicity of merchants, many parents believe that wearing silver jewelry has a good health care effect, so they not only wear silver jewelry for their children, but also buy silver bowls, silver chopsticks and the like for eating.
However, for children, wearing silver jewelry not only does not play a health care role, but may make children "poisoned"!
Rumor 1: Sterilization and anti-inflammatory
This is one of the most widely spread sayings about the efficacy of silver jewelry. But in fact, this statement is a stealing concept, and it is silver ions that have a bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effect, not metallic silver. In silver jewelry, it does not contain free silver ions, so it is not established that silver jewelry has a bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effect.
There are many more talks about the concept of stealing silver ions and metal silver, such as purifying water quality, treating ulcers, accelerating wound healing, etc., which are actually the role of silver ions, not the role of metal silver.
Rumor 2: Detox Test
This kind of statement uses the fact that ancient silverware was used to test the toxicity of meals to prove that silver jewelry has the function of measuring poison, which is also played in many film and television dramas. Another way of saying that silver jewelry can promote detoxification of the human body, if the body has less toxins, the silver jewelry worn will be as bright as new, and people with more body toxins will wear silver jewelry blackened.
In fact, whether it is the blackening of silverware by poisonous meals or the phenomenon of blackening after wearing, it is because silver and sulfur react to produce black silver sulfide.
It can be seen that many of the health care effects of silver jewelry are the effects of business promotion, and silver jewelry itself does not have these functions.
The reason why silver jewelry can be used as an ornament, in addition to its beautiful color, is also because its nature is relatively stable and suitable as an ornament. Wearing sterling silver stud earrings after piercing the ears is to take advantage of the stable properties of silver products. Therefore, wearing silver jewelry generally does not have side effects on the body.
However, if the silver jewelry worn is not pure enough and contains impurities such as nickel and copper, it is easy to lead to symptoms of skin allergies. And because the child's skin is delicate, it is more likely to have allergy symptoms.
In addition, a small number of people themselves will be allergic to silver products. Therefore, people with skin allergies, especially children, it is best not to wear silver jewelry. If you want to wear it, you should also try to choose sterling silver products.
Another point is that unqualified silver jewelry will affect the health of children, and even make children lead "poisoned". This is because some silver jewelry will contain lead, because lead has good toughness and ductility, added to silver jewelry, can improve the toughness of jewelry, but also reduce costs.
Lead poisoning can cause damage to various organs of the child's body, the most serious of which is the damage to the nervous system. Because it is irreversible, it will also affect the baby's cognitive and behavioral development.
However, the state has mandatory regulations in this regard, requiring that the lead content in jewelry must be less than 1 ‰. Therefore, not all silver jewelry is poisonous, and qualified silver jewelry that meets national standards does not have to worry about causing human poisoning.
In addition, silver jewelry also has a safety hazard from the danger of accidental ingestion and swallowing by children.
Many parents have experience, after having children, they can not wear any jewelry. Because if you are not careful, you will be caught or bitten by your child. If you wear silver ornaments with sharp edges and corners, it is easy to scratch children. If your child accidentally swallows into the stomach, the situation is even more dangerous.
Especially in the oral period from birth to about 2 years old, children like to bite things with their teeth, everything wants to stuff into the mouth, it is easy to eat some small toys, jewelry, causing obstruction of breathing, digestive tract damage and other consequences.
In 2020, a 9-month-old baby in Hubei swallowed the gold pendant worn by his mother, because the gold pendant was stuck in the esophagus mouth and could not be excreted, and the pendant could only be removed through surgery. In the end, although there was no danger, it still made the child suffer a lot of sins.
Parents wear jewelry, let alone children wear them themselves? If the child mistakenly eats the jewelry worn by himself, and the parents do not find it in time, then the foreign body stays in the body for a long time, which may cause various discomforts in the body.
Studies have shown that almost 50% of children do not have any signs when swallowing a foreign body, and parents simply cannot detect it in time. Therefore, for younger children, not only do not wear any jewelry for the child, but also parents themselves should try not to wear jewelry.