Skinny Jeans dangerous???

Though skinny jeans look great doctors say they can be dangerous for our health. According to some experts tight jeans might cause a nerve problem called meralgia paresthetica.

Together with high stilettos skinny jeans put great pressure on the femoral cutaneous nerve that runs through the thigh. As a result ladies often feel tingling and burning through the leg.

The affliction has already been named as “tingling thigh syndrome. A woman who developed the one said:

It felt really strange – it felt like my leg had gone to sleep.”

However, the condition is not new and has largely appeared in construction workers, pregnant women and obese people; even young, fit women do suffer it sometimes.

Dr. John England of the American Academy of Neurology said:

The nerve, in some people, is susceptible to compression. It is a pure sensory nerve – it doesn’t go to muscles or provide strength. Anything that is tight around there could potentially compress the nerve that goes there.”

But before you decide to throw your skinny britches away, remember that the damage is not permanent as it is eliminated as soon as you remove the pressure.

Just don’t wear skinnies all the time, make alterations in your appearance and everything’s going to be all right.

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1. June 7th, 2009 at 4:32 am
   Nii Wilson Says:

   While this is a very interesting article I think there is a bigger health risk at the amount of women that are too obese to fit into skinny jeans or even regular size baggy jeans.

   The sad thing is I see too many makeover shows on TV that show women how to “look slim” yet do not tell them what to do to keep the fat off forever.

   I think more women will be happy to learn what to do to get a sexy body as opposed to wearing clothes that give the “illusion” of a sexy body.

   Great article but I think tight skinny jeans are low on the totem pole for women’s health risks

2. September 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
   Luisa Says:

   Stop live. It can help to be happy

3. September 27th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
   AmyS Says:

   I don’t really see the point in skinny jeans – they look far too uncomfortable, and by the sounds of it, are not worth wearing if they cause the wearer to experience pain in the legs.

4. December 4th, 2010 at 7:45 am
   Fae Says:

   It’s in the name – SKINNY jeans – it can’t be any more obvious, if you’re not skinny, don’t wear skinny jeans. You’ll benefit yourself and everyone. Thank you.

5. October 1st, 2011 at 8:19 pm
   Anonymous Says:

   THose jeans in the picture are ‘straight legs’ not ‘skinnies’.

   Women seem to think fitting their size 12 arse into a size 8 pair of jeans ‘hold them in’. Wear skinny jeans that fit and I dont see how they’d be tight enough to do anything but look good….