[Jewelry making - Article 00232] - Re: [Orchid] Palladium white gold allergy

[Janet Alix]

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Hi Joanna,

    In spite of the care you take to dry your hands after washing, could
    there still be moisture trapped in the spaces under the stones? You
    have to twist your rings and move them around to really get all of
    that wetness out of those little cavities. Your symptoms sound so
    much like what we call "ring rash" that I really can't think of what
    else you might have. Once the skin mantle is broken (by being
    irritated by having soap or even water trapped against the skin) it
    can take quite a long time to totally heal-- much longer than the
    three days you mention and it might require the application of
    Neosporin or something like that. I've had customers tell me it took
    weeks to get the skin back to normal once the irritation had begun
    and during that healing time the skin was very vulnerable to being
    irritated again. 

    It's possible, I guess, that you are allergic to something in the
    alloy but I think it is more likely that the inside of the ring is
    not as dry as you think. Also, working with a lot of customers, I
    see that ring sizes are a variable thing. People's fingers expand and
    contract with weather, consumption of alcohol, salt, airplane
    flights, time of day, other things-- perhaps sometimes your rings
    are tighter than other times. If they are tighter to your finger this
    might encourage the rash more than if there is more air circulation
    around the bands. 

Any of this sound plausible?
Janet
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