Contact hypersensitivity and allergic contact dermatitis among school children and teenagers with eczema

Contact hypersensitivity and allergic contact dermatitis among school children and teenagers with eczema.

BACKGROUND Patch testing is an essential procedure in the investigation of eczema in children. OBJECTIVES To analyse the frequency of contact hypersensitivity and allergic contact dermatitis among Polish children with eczema. PATIENTS/METHODS During an allergy screening programme involving 9320 children aged 7 and 16 years, 12.6% reported symptoms of chronic/recurrent eczema. From this grou...

Allergic Contact Dermatitis in Children

Contact allergy (CA), a pathologic response after (usually repeated) contact to environmental substances of low molecular weight occurring in a varying proportion of exposed persons, often results in clinical disease, allergic contact dermatitis (ACD), which can be disabling. CA is diagnosed by patch testing, a technique of controlled exposure of patients suspected to have ACD to a standardized...

Nipple Eczema: A Diagnostic Challenge of Allergic Contact Dermatitis

Vol. 26 No. 3, 2014 413 Received March 13, 2013, Revised March 27, 2013, Accepted for publication June 17, 2013 Corresponding author: Seong-Jin Kim, Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Hospital, Chonnam National University Medical School, 42 Jebong-ro, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-757, Korea. Tel: 82-62-220-6683, Fax: 82-62-222-4058, E-mail: seongkim @jnu.ac.kr This is an Open Access...

[Allergic contact dermatitis to footwear in children].

Allergic and Irritant Contact Dermatitis