[Jewelry making - Article 00019] - Re: [Orchid] Allergy to Nickel Silver

[Kathryn L Phillips]

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>    Anyhow, I was wondering if the nickel content
>    is likely to cause allergy problems. Does anyone have any
>    experience of this? 

    Nickel silver is the worst.  I'm allergic to most metals except
    sterling or better silver, and 14kt or better gold (and sometimes
    the 14kt will break me out) - but I had a jeweler friend who made
    some bracelet strips out of titanium and rhodium that did not
    break me out either, and I am extremely allergic.  I have to wear
    band-aids on the back of the rivets in my jeans, so brass,
    copper, etc. are all out of the question for this type of
    contact allergy. 

    A metallurgical engineer once told me that it sounded like the
    more inert metals caused the least problems.  ??  Don't really
    know, but it sounded good to me.
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