i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> in rec.arts.bodyart KavinTaylor@gmail.com <KavinTaylor@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kgc> On Sep 7, 9:44 pm, cr...@got.net (i'll teach you to turn away.) wrote:
> IT>> so, i think you're undereducated here. let's find out the best way
> IT>> we know how: weigh in, nina. :D
Tsss... :P
> they're not the same, though. any metal reaction is going to be
> caused by a metal allergy (though you alluded earlier that they're
> different), & we've had plenty of examples here where someone had only a
> localized reaction. hell, i'm highly allergic to cats, but if i don't
> touch my eyes, i can be in a room with them for sometimes an hour without
> reacting (before the ambient hair/dander gets to me). cat dander doesn't
> make my skin itch, but it does affect my eyes. isn't that similar?
You're either allergic to something or you're not. A skin prick test
with cat dander, would give a reaction on you anywhere on your body. The
reason why you get a reaction when you rub your eyes but not when you're
in a room with a cat is that exposure is much more intense when you rub
it in your eyes, plus the surface is different. Mucous membranes have a
single layer of epithelium, skin has lots.
Being in a room with cats doesn't necessarily make your skin itch
either. A friend of mine gets an itch in her ears or throat, but not her
arms for example.
It could be two things:
1. you're allergic to Ti, but because of differences in skin texture,
you don't notice it everywhere.
2. It's the surface of Ti jewelry. From what I understand, Ti is never
as smooth as steel? Maybe Ti irritates your skin in your lobes because
the skin is more delicate there as, say, in a navel piercing. I'd have
to say this is more plausible because real Ti allergies are very rare,
and wearing jewelry for extended periods of time should be enough to
cause a reaction elsewhere. But you're weird, so why shouldn't you be
the rare allergic person :D.
You could get tested, that's about the only way we'll find out for sure.
Otherwise, we can just state that "different kinds of jewelry are not
tolerated equally well in every piercing" and be done with it.
I have spoken!
Nina
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