Can anyone be allergic to newspaper?

Question

Everytime in the car when i read newspaper, my brother will start sneezing non-stop. So we made a conclusion that he might be allergic to newspaper or the ink or the paper itself.. Is it possible that someone is allergic to newspaper? If so, what cause the allergic response?

Answer 1

The paper used in newspapers is low-cost, low-quality, non-archival paper. It is produced by a mechanical milling process, without the chemical process that is usually used to remove lignin from the pulp. Lignin (or also known as "lignen") is a complex chemical compound most commonly derived from wood and an integral part of the cell walls of plants. He may be experienceing an allergic reaction to the lignin.

Answer 2

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Can anyone be allergic to newspaper?
Everytime in the car when i read newspaper, my brother will start sneezing non-stop. So we made a conclusion that he might be allergic to newspaper or the ink or the paper itself.. Is it possible that someone is allergic to newspaper? If so, what cause the allergic response?

Answer 3

As a matter of fact, there is a newspaper my mother can't read because she has a reaction to the ink. I don't think that's it, though: Ink usually doesn't float through the air from a newspaper, unless the paper itself is of poor quality. And it might well be, considering how newspapers have to cut costs of production.

Or it might be that dust had settled on your paper and is getting thrown back up in the air while you're reading it.

An allergist would probably be better able to tell than I.

Good luck!

Answer 4

Possibly but that isn't why they make people sneeze. Newspapers are printed and bundled so fast that solvents used in the ink don't get a chance to fully evaporate. It's less of a problem now that water based inks are being used more. But there are two solutions and one is to put the paper in a warm oven for a bit before reading it. The other is the traditional English butler's task of ironing the paper. It gets rid of the solvent and also fixes the ink so it doesn't come off on the hands.

Answer 5

Anyone can be allergic to anything and the allergy can develop early or later in life. If you search newspaper allergy on the internet, you will see that many people are allergic to the ink.

Answer 6

I am allergic to lots of things. I remember cardboard boxes as well as newspaper. It is most likely the paper itself.

Answer 7

Newsprint Allergy

Answer 8

it's quite possible that your brother is allergic to the ink in the news print or the chemicals which are used to make the paper from wood.

Answer 9

yes cause maybe the ink they use has something he's allergic too and it also could be the actual paper =)

Answer 10

that could be psycological but there is a big change too that your brother is alergic to newspaper. to tell you might want him tested with an allergy test by a family or a dermatorogist. alergic reactions are caused when your body is not comfortable with a certain substance like crab egg pollen dust or newspaper that carry dust...