Ill effect of CA?

[Chasper]

In another post someone mentioned that they were making a pen for someone who could not be around CA. I know that many people do not like the smell of curing CA, some experience eye irritation and other bad effects from the application and curing.

However, I was not aware that there are people who react negatively to fully cured CA. If they have bad reactions to cured CA wouldn't they have the same reaction to just about all plastics?

 

[holmqer]

In another post someone mentioned that they were making a pen for someone who could not be around CA. I know that many people do not like the smell of curing CA, some experience eye irritation and other bad effects from the application and curing.

However, I was not aware that there are people who react negatively to fully cured CA. If they have bad reactions to cured CA wouldn't they have the same reaction to just about all plastics?

Not necessarily, consider latex for example, a portion of the population is highly allergic to latex which causes some real problems in medical treatement, great care must be taken by the medical facility to avoid any latex gloves, tubing etc when treating those patients.

Similarly, someone could have an allergy to cured CA.

I suspect that the reason we don't hear more about it is due more to lack of exposure than relative allergy rates. Most people will be exposed to latex regularly (doctor visits, latex house paint, latex household goods), comparatively speaking CA exposure in the general population is much lower, and more easily avoided. Pretty much the only people who use CA as a finish are penturners, similarly pretty much only wood turners use lots of CA, everyone else buys a tiny bottle of super glue to glue some small item back together and then the remaiing 90% of the bottle sits in the junk drawer till it all goes hard and gets thrown out.