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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Without divulging in explicit details.
The TLDR story: initial screen, patient claims to be hypersensitive to a certain alloy. Nothing shows up in the medical records, I scheduled the patient for referral nevertheless and sent him back to his unit. As much as I want to just Attn C the dude, there was no symptoms that warrants it.
Fast forward a couple hours, patient exhibits severe fibromyalgia during a certain military exercise.
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What type of hypersensitivity and to which metal/alloy?
If it is allergic contact dermatitis, it does not usually cause any systemic/neurologic/respiratory symptoms. Nickel is the most common metal allergy, followed by chrome. In this case, from what you have described above, then I don't think you have anything to worry about from the medical point of view.
I doubt that this person has systemic contact dermatitis, which is very rare.