Is It Okay To Get Acrylic Nails While Pregnant

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Is it okay to get acrylic nails while pregnant. The jurys still out on whether acrylic nails -- fake nails created by applying a chemical mixture called an epoxy over your natural nails or over a plastic tip glued to your nails -- are safe. I use either Creative NSI or EzFlow Acrylic. Still its unlikely that the risk of problems for you or your unborn baby.

You probably dont want baby exposed to all that. The main risk with the use of acrylic nail and other salon products is from exposure to solvent fumes. Can you get gel nails done while pregnant.

While the chemicals in gel and acrylic nail treatments have not been found to be harmful during pregnancy its a good idea to wear gloves to protect your hands from UV light to avoid getting blotchy skin. Acrylic nails are still in. Hilda Hutcherson MD clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center says its best to hold off.

They can include toluene formaldehyde and dibutyl phthalate DBP. The fumes and the chemicals you are putting on your fingernails which are porous are getting into. I would strongly advise that you not keep up acrylic nails while pregnant or breastfeeding.

When you are pregnant your smallest decisions are also made with care and caution and the same applies to the use of acrylic nails during pregnancy. Not much of the methacrylate is left after it reacts with other chemicals to form the acrylic nails. And those ladies work with acrylic and acetone all day long.

Two of the ladies that work there are currently pregnant and have been pregnant previously while working and have had healthy babies. According to the research on Baby Center it is perfectly fine to wear acrylic nails during your pregnancy. I get my nails done every 2 weeks and I color my hair every 8 weeks.