Allergy To Vinyl Seats

Jack friedman on december 8 2013 4 10 pm.

Allergy to vinyl seats. Sure leather and cloth seats are nice but they come with downsides of their own leather requires a good amount of care over the life of your car and cloth seats don t manage stains very well while you may not think of vinyl as a smart way to go you probably haven t. I have rashes and serious itchy almost everyday. And how to prevent the rashes and itchy if i keep continue use the car. And i wander there is any way to prevent the rashes and itchy.

Allergic contact dermatitis to various components of toilet seats is being recognized and reported with increasing frequency. I have serious allergy with the leather seats. Doctors say a chemical added. It actually was getting somewhat worse and i see that i do get the hives whenever i carry groccery bags used vinyl gloves for cpr class and had a ring around my wrist my car seats are vinyl and the welts would appear on my legs and just last weekend was in a golf cart and the hives appeared on the skin exposed to the vinyl seats.

Vinyl contains a chemical that off gases and causes fogging on the inside of the windshield. I am not allergic to latex but i get severe dermatitis on my hand when i wear latex gloves so i switched to nitrile and have had no problems at all. Buying a good quality leather sofa can be expensive but the investment pays off in the long run. Since leather is a luxury item it costs more than vinyl sometimes a lot more.

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I recommend going to an allergist to see what material you actually are allergic to whether it be latex vinyl nitrile etc. These materials can be cleaned easily and today you can get leather in a variety of colors and looks. That way you can avoid that material and a severe allergic reaction. With proper care leather seats will far outlast their vinyl counterparts.

We found a lot of vinyl in vehicles with leather seats which often have a very strong new car smell while the front of the seats are usually real leather in most cases the sides and back of the seats are made of vinyl.