New OHR sensor design causing skin issues
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You are suffering from contact dermatitis. If this hasn’t happened with your previous watch, there may be a different material in this one causing issues. You can try barrier cream as someone else suggested. Otherwise there is probably not much you can do
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Had the same now and then. With all watches
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in New OHR sensor design causing skin issues:
Had the same now and then. With all watches
Same here. I can loose strap so it moves on my hand all the time a bit but still marks on hand just like original poster here. Years passed and no any serious problems with my hand. I sometimes put my watch on right hand when go sleep, and next day left is like 90% recovered
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No issue here. Outside of activitty i wear it loose. Never had marks like on your pictures. Even after activity when i have watch tight.
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@Alex-Jurkiewicz @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I am leaving it to heal for now. Interesting is that it started just recently. Today I had the watch on on my right hand just for a 30 min exercise and I had red marks, and it was not tight. Starting to think that I have developed an allergy.
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@OutdoorMan did your previouse watch was made out of different material type?
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@OutdoorMan contact dermatitis is not an allergy. You can speak to your GP for more info, it’s reasonably common
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@OutdoorMan Unfortunately the best thing to do to heal from contact dermatitis is to just stop wearing any wearables for a couple days until it heals.
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@Alex-Jurkiewicz said in New OHR sensor design causing skin issues:
@OutdoorMan contact dermatitis is not an allergy. You can speak to your GP for more info, it’s reasonably common
Internet says: Contact dermatitis is an itchy rash caused by direct contact with a substance or an allergic reaction to it.
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@strain Yes this is what I am doing. I just hope it won’t return straight away.
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Maybe the permanent light from the LEDs bringing some irritation to the skin? Sometimes I think that the light shining 24/7 on it isn’t really a healthy situation. I wish Suunto give us the option to turn back to former 10-minute-readings.
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@jschmidt at least during night it is not permanent, it measures in some time inteval, not sure how long. But does it really measure during day all time? I would really prefer measurement only every 5 or 10 minutes, in same way as apple watch does it.
