Kathryn L Hatch, Herbert Motschi, Howard I Maibach
{"title":"Disperse dyes in fabrics of patients patch-test-positive to disperse dyes.","authors":"Kathryn L Hatch, Herbert Motschi, Howard I Maibach","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Little evidence exists that dyes to which individuals are patch test positive are in those garments that they suspect cause their dermatitis, which makes diagnosis and management of colored-textile allergic contact dermatitis difficult.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We determined whether disperse dyes to which a patient suspected of having a colored garment-dye contact allergy were in the garment that the patient suspected to be the cause of his or her skin lesions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Each patient was patch-tested with 12 disperse dyes in a commercial patch test series. Disperse dyes in the submitted garment(s) were identified. The dyes to which each patient was patch test positive were compared with the dyes identified in that patient's submitted fabric(s). When a dye appeared in both lists, a correlation was found.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-two of 32 garments received contained disperse dyes. In all, 35 different disperse dyes were identified. Twelve dyes elicited a reaction in at least one patient. Only nine patients were patch test positive to at least one dye identified in the fabric submitted. Dyes appearing in both lists were Blue 106 (8 times), Blue 124 (2 times), Yellow 3 (once), and Red 1 (once).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Dyes to which a patient was patch test positive were infrequently identified in the fabric suspected to be the cause of the skin lesions, which means that the next step will be to patch-test with fabric swatches and extracts of dye from the submitted garments.</p>","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"14 4","pages":"205-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24176341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allergy to corticosteroids: update and review of epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and structural cross-reactivity.","authors":"Elyse Scheuer, E. Warshaw","doi":"10.1097/01206501-200312000-00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01206501-200312000-00002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"24 1","pages":"179-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84757823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occupational allergic contact dermatitis in an obstetrics and gynecology resident.","authors":"M. K. Kosann, R. Brancaccio, D. Cohen","doi":"10.1097/01206501-200312000-00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01206501-200312000-00009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"39 1","pages":"217-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75253012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimbursement for patch testing at academic centers: the Achilles' heel of academic contact dermatitis specialists.","authors":"E. Warshaw","doi":"10.1097/01206501-200312000-00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01206501-200312000-00008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"15 1","pages":"215-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87586203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ida Duarte, Rosana Lazzarini, Clarice Marie Kobata
{"title":"Contact dermatitis in adolescents.","authors":"Ida Duarte, Rosana Lazzarini, Clarice Marie Kobata","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 are exposed to a series of substances capable of causing contact dermatitis.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>(1) To study the frequency and characteristics of allergic contact dermatitis in adolescents, (2) to characterize the group being studied, and (3) to verify the main sensitizing substances among this age group.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>From 1996 to 2001, 1,027 patients with a suspicion of contact dermatitis were analyzed, and patients between 10 and 19 years of age were selected. These patients were submitted to contact tests.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the 102 adolescents, 93 (91%) were female and 9 (9%) were male. The face was the area most affected by dermatosis. The contact tests were positive in 64 patients (56%), whereas in 45 (44%) they were negative. The main location of the contact dermatitis was the face (36%). The substances with higher frequencies of sensitization were nickel sulfate in 33 (31%) patients and tosylamide-formaldehyde resin in 13 (12%) patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Contact dermatitis in adolescents was more frequent in white girls and on the face. The substances with greater frequency of sensitization were nickel sulfate and tosylamide-formaldehyde resin. These two substances are related to adolescent habits and behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"14 4","pages":"200-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24176339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contact dermatitis in adolescents.","authors":"I. Duarte, Rosana Lazzarini, C. Kobata","doi":"10.1097/01206501-200312000-00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01206501-200312000-00005","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000Adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 are exposed to a series of substances capable of causing contact dermatitis.\u0000\u0000\u0000OBJECTIVES\u0000(1) To study the frequency and characteristics of allergic contact dermatitis in adolescents, (2) to characterize the group being studied, and (3) to verify the main sensitizing substances among this age group.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000From 1996 to 2001, 1,027 patients with a suspicion of contact dermatitis were analyzed, and patients between 10 and 19 years of age were selected. These patients were submitted to contact tests.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000Among the 102 adolescents, 93 (91%) were female and 9 (9%) were male. The face was the area most affected by dermatosis. The contact tests were positive in 64 patients (56%), whereas in 45 (44%) they were negative. The main location of the contact dermatitis was the face (36%). The substances with higher frequencies of sensitization were nickel sulfate in 33 (31%) patients and tosylamide-formaldehyde resin in 13 (12%) patients.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSION\u0000Contact dermatitis in adolescents was more frequent in white girls and on the face. The substances with greater frequency of sensitization were nickel sulfate and tosylamide-formaldehyde resin. These two substances are related to adolescent habits and behavior.","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"4 1","pages":"200-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83372998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimbursement for patch testing at academic centers: the Achilles' heel of academic contact dermatitis specialists.","authors":"Erin M Warshaw","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"14 4","pages":"215-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24176343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agave contact dermatitis.","authors":"Whitney A High","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"14 4","pages":"213-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24176342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disperse dyes in fabrics of patients patch-test-positive to disperse dyes.","authors":"K. Hatch, H. Motschi, H. Maibach","doi":"10.1097/01206501-200312000-00006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01206501-200312000-00006","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000Little evidence exists that dyes to which individuals are patch test positive are in those garments that they suspect cause their dermatitis, which makes diagnosis and management of colored-textile allergic contact dermatitis difficult.\u0000\u0000\u0000OBJECTIVE\u0000We determined whether disperse dyes to which a patient suspected of having a colored garment-dye contact allergy were in the garment that the patient suspected to be the cause of his or her skin lesions.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000Each patient was patch-tested with 12 disperse dyes in a commercial patch test series. Disperse dyes in the submitted garment(s) were identified. The dyes to which each patient was patch test positive were compared with the dyes identified in that patient's submitted fabric(s). When a dye appeared in both lists, a correlation was found.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000Twenty-two of 32 garments received contained disperse dyes. In all, 35 different disperse dyes were identified. Twelve dyes elicited a reaction in at least one patient. Only nine patients were patch test positive to at least one dye identified in the fabric submitted. Dyes appearing in both lists were Blue 106 (8 times), Blue 124 (2 times), Yellow 3 (once), and Red 1 (once).\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSION\u0000Dyes to which a patient was patch test positive were infrequently identified in the fabric suspected to be the cause of the skin lesions, which means that the next step will be to patch-test with fabric swatches and extracts of dye from the submitted garments.","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"127 1","pages":"205-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80396014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meredith Klein Kosann, Ronald Brancaccio, David Cohen
{"title":"Occupational allergic contact dermatitis in an obstetrics and gynecology resident.","authors":"Meredith Klein Kosann, Ronald Brancaccio, David Cohen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7612,"journal":{"name":"American journal of contact dermatitis : official journal of the American Contact Dermatitis Society","volume":"14 4","pages":"217-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24176344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}