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How To Prevent Jewelry Allergy
If your favorite bracelet turns your wrist green and your best earrings give you skin eruptions, have no fear. Jewelry allergy is one of the most common allergies women faced. You are likely to develop contact dermatitis when your skin comes in contact with some types of jewelry.This dermatitis is a result of an allergic reaction to the nickel found in many types of jewelry.Nickel allergies are very common and can occur at any age.
Take the following precautions and wear your favorite jewelry anytime:
Stick To The Good Stuff
You can insist that all your jewelry be either sterling silver or at least 14 karat gold. That’s the most effective remedy.
Try Stainless Steel
Try wearing stainless steel or plastic backs on your earrings, and purchase earrings that have stainless steel posts as well.Although stainless steel contains nickel, it’s bound so tightly that it doesn’t leach out.
Try Clear Nail Polish
You can paint your jewelry with clear nail polish, so that the skin is never in contact with the offending metal.
Protect Your Skin
Consider electroplating sentimental or really good pieces of jewelry. Take your ring, etc to a jeweler and see if a new layer of good metal can be applied to the contact surface. This prevents leaching of the nickel particles onto your skin, at least for a while.
Wear It Part Time
Take your jewelry off when you don’t absolutely need to be wearing it. Diminished contact with the skin decreases the amount of allergen you are exposed to.
Pretreat Your Skin
Pretreat the skin with prescription cortisone cream, then treat the skin again three to six hours later. That will build up resistance so that the jewelry can be worn for a few hours.
Stay Dry
Keep your skin dry where your skin touches the metal. Placing your hands into a sink full of water allows metal ions to be better absorbed into the skin.
Wear a good layer of protective moisturizing cream. The better the barrier between you and the metal, the less likely the reaction will be bothersome.
Avoid Wearing Fitted Jewelry
Do not wear tight earrings, rings or chains and leave a little space so that air passes through it.
Apply a paste made of 3 table spoons of baking soda with 1 tablespoon of water to relieve symptoms of the allergy.
Hi there. Just wanted to offer advice to other people out there who have nickel allergies. Instead of constantly worrying about sweating, buying hypo-allergenic jewelry and putting barrier creams on, you can create a barrier on the jewelry itself. I’ve heard that a lot of people use the old clear nail polish technique. This is so unfortunate, as I’m sure it ruins the jewelry. Kind of a shame, esp if you’re using it on wedding rings or family heirlooms. Anyway there’s a product out there now called Super Surface Eco and it was developed in Japan. It was now recently made available on the internet and you can purchase it using PayPal and have it shipped to North America. The price is more than you’d pay for a product in North America but the components in the product is what makes the difference. It contains quartz, not cheap resins, like a lot of those $5.00 products out there on the internet. It will last much much longer and you won’t have to worry about ruining your nice jewelry. Here’s the website for any of those interested:
http://glassskin.net/english/about.html
Hope it works for you too!