Nickel Free Diet For Eczema. Additional recommendations to avoid nickel in your diet: I share tips on how to live low nickel with stories, reviews and recipes for individuals with systemic nickel allergies and their families.
The list of high nickel foods is as follows: These medicines capture nickel through a mechanism called “chelation”. If you find it difficult to satisfy your appetite, it is best to supplement meals with foods containing very little nickel, for example, milk products, meat, potatoes, and cooked carrots.
Nickel allergic individuals should consider a low nickel diet if they have either hand dermatitis or a nonspecific, pruritic dermatitis (rash that itches).
Nickel allergy (allergic contact dermatits to nickel), has always been thought of as a rash that is isolated to the area where nickel makes contact with the skin. But there is nickel in almost all vegetables which is the really hard part about eating healthy. If you try the low nickel diet, excluding those supplements, and see improvement in your skin your nickel allergy is probably systemic. Nickel ions are chelated within the body.