5 health hazards that hide in your closet

By María Santana, cnsegui @mariasantanacnn

(Cnnespañol.com) - Being fashionable has its price, but not just for the money it costs.Did you know that there are garments in your closet that could present a risk to your health?

High heels, tight pants known as "Skinny jeans" or "pitillos", thongs and even heavy earrings can cause health problems that, according to doctors, range from infections to blurred vision.

Here we present some of the garments that, according to experts, are the most harmful to health.

Adjusted jeans or jeans

Many women wear extremely tight pants to better wear their curves.What you may not know is that wearing very tight pants or belts can cause serious damage to the body due to its "compressor" action.

According to doctors, tight jeans and other garments that pressure can cause circulation problems, digestive problems and numbness of the legs."Skinny jeans" or "pitillos" can compress the lateral femoral skin nerve and, with it, promote the appearance of a parestatic melralgia, whose main symptoms are numbness and pain in the thigh.

This ailment is so common that Dr. Octavio Bessa, from Stamford, Connecticut, coined the term "tight pants syndrome" since he says he has treated many of patients with abdominal pain, dilation of the veins and stomach burning causedFor tight clothes.

High heels

There is nothing like a couple of heels to make a woman feel upset, thin and sexy.However, did you know that women suffer up to four times more feet problems than men?This, according to a recent study by the University of Auburn.The main culprit: the heels, and the higher and narrow the shoe, worse.

Achilles tendon problems, bunions, calluses, hammer fingers, ankle sprains, knee pain and hip or nerve damage is the price that some women pay for fashion.

In addition, the use of high heels can contribute to the wear of the cartilage that exists in the joints.When this cartilage won, the bones touch each other generating wear.This disease is known as osteoarthritis.To avoid these ravages, doctors recommend limiting the use of heels and finding a couple of more comfortable or better support shoes, especially for walking long distances.

Thongs

The Tanga Panty has become very fashionable in recent years.However, the continuous use of this garment can cause intimate health problems such as vaginal infections, hemorrhoids and irritations and chafing in the sensitive skin of the genital area.

Sweat, in addition, encourages that candidiasis or vaginal fungi may occur, which have grown exponentially between the causes of gynecological consultation in recent years.Doctors recommend limiting the use of thongs, especially in summer, and trying to use them cotton.

Earrings

According to a study by dermatologists from the University of Northwestern, in Illinois, 20% of perforations or "piercings" develop a bacterial infection.In addition, a bad choice of the site or the way in which perforations are made can lead to the spread of local or systemic infections that cause serious health problems, and even put their lives at risk.

Among threats is tetanus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), type B and C viral hepatitis, as well as allergic or toxic reactions.And if that were not enough, the frequent use of large and heavy earrings could cause the tear of the ear lobe, a problem that sometimes requires plastic surgery to correct it.

Ties

If they think that women are the only ones suffering from fashion, they are wrong.Men also have to worry.According to a study conducted by the University of Cornell, in New York, 67% of men buy shirts that are smaller than their necks.

Wearing very narrow shirts or very tight ties can reduce blood circulation to the brain, increase intraocular pressure, cause headaches and limit neck movement and increase muscle tension on the back and men.

As if that were not enough, because the ties are not washed so frequently, they could be full of bacteria that transmit infections.

So the next time you are going to choose costumes, have this information in mind and avoid falling victim of "dangerous fashion."