Recently, I have developed an allergy to nickel. I can no longer wear my wedding ring, which is made of white gold. Within hours, I break out in a nasty rash.
Anyway, now I’m getting a bit concerned about future tats. At the moment, I only have black ink along with some white for highlights. I have several color pieces planned though. Anyone else dealt with this issue?
I’ll probably contact my primary physician first, as allergy testing is very expensive. This sucks indeed, but better it happened this way than learn once the ink is under my skin. 😡 I see that eternal inks are < 1 ppm nickel, etc but based on my severe reaction after only 7 hours of having the ring on again, it doesn't seem to take much. :/
It started 1-2 months ago. I noticed my ring finger was really itchy and when I took my wedding ring off, I had a nasty rash underneath. I thought maybe it was a fungal/bacterial thing so I soaked the ring in alcohol and after the rash had cleared up, I tried again. Same thing. Then I though maybe it was moisture or soap getting trapped under the ring. bu that wasn’t it either as the rash develops even my hands stay completely dry. After doing some research, I found out that the most common cause of this problem is a nickel allergy. The poor man’s test to confirm this is to simply use some medical tape to attach a nickel to your skin for 1-2 days.
I had never heard of it either to be honest, but as it turns out, it’s the second most common type of skin allergy. I’m allergic to all types of s**t, so this really doesn’t surprise me in the least.
I think I read somewhere that something like one in six people on the planet have develop an allergy to Nickel. This is why most jewelry (especially piercing jewelry like earrings and navel-studs (no clue what the correct English word is for that) manufacturers have stopped using it completely. Only cheap piercing jewelry now has nickel in it.
Yep, seems to be very common apparently. I read that 18% of the general population has a nickel allergy. I’m probably going to swap out my wedding ring for one made of 24K yellow gold (instead of 10K white gold), though I read that you can temporarily coat it in clear nail polish. As for the tattoo situation, I may see if I can get someone to do a spot test. A woman who works for my wife, her mom owns a shop … maybe I’ll give her a call.
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