Killer diamond earrings *BUT* killer ear infection! Oh no..help!
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by justme » March 10th, 2003, 11:39 pm
divergirl -
Your memory is right http://www.rings-things.com/Catalog_Pages/008.htm http://www.jewelrybyrhonda.com/ear_solutions.htm You'll need to use plastic backs or platinum also. You must have developed a nickel allergy. You can try clear nail polish as a temp. solution. Justme |
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Hey Diver--sorry to hear about your ear infection. I used to get those alot when I was younger but not anymore...however sometimes one of my ears does get a little irritated.
I suggest you stop wearing the earrings and let the ear heal completely..maybe a week or two. Then try the process again, maybe swabbing alcohol along the posts before putting them on or something or try new backs as you suggested. Your ear would probably heal up if you stopped wearing the earrings for the short term. Traumatic I know! 
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I have very sensitive skin. This is what I do with all my earings: I clean the earings' posts with rubbing alcohol. I also clean the holes in my earlobe with alcohol. Then, I stick some clear Bacitracin (unsure of spelling)on the earings before placing them in my ear. This always works for me - But you have to wait until your ears have completely healed.
Good luck with your beautiful earings! |
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Hi Divergrrl,
My ex-wife has the same problem. She can wear even cheap yellow gold but white gold gives her ears a real problem. I took care of the problem by changing the posts to platinum, rhodium plated the complete earring after steam cleaning and changed out the friction backs to platinum, although the plastic ones will work also. She now has happy ears, I think. My present wife would not like me checking out my x's ears.:-0 |
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Your options:
* white gold "bleached" with palladium, NOT nickel * yellow gold (no bleaching needed, hence no nickel) * platinum * surgical steel (no, really!) * sterling silver "White gold" is, well, probably the worst possible material for earrings, allergy-wise, because of how much nickel it has -- unless the alloy was cast with palladium instead.. Even sterling silver is better! By definition, 925 SS stands for "92.5% Silver" (the other % is copper). It amazes me how many jewelers don't know what kind they have -- only that it's 14k or 18k. I don't care if it's 10k, as long as it's made without nickel! =) So my advice -- please, there's no reason to torture yourself by using creams, or spacing out how often you wear them, etc -- posts for earrings should be neither too difficult nor too expensive to change. |
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Thanks everyone! Wow, what a helpful group.
Apparently the nickel issue is a big one. And yes Mara, not wearing my earrings...so traumatic, especially when new! :-( but I've been good, keep putting neosporin on and letting my stones sleep in my jewelry box. I talked to a jeweler, and since I really don't want to keep throwing money at problems, she recommended having the posts taken off and replaced with 14kt yellow gold posts & two new backs, that worked for her white gold allergies, and she showed me her diamond earrings that she just had that done to(that she was wearing trouble-free). I'll compare the cost of that repair to using platinum, but even that's an unknown in my ear. I know that yellow gold doesn't give me any grief. When I pierced my belly button years ago, I used a gold ring and had no trouble the entire time I had it. Thank you everyone, such great information. Next time I buy a white gold earring I'll stop and check to see if it has palladium instead of nickel as the alloy used. Funny my SS never gives me trouble either. cheers! d-grrl 
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