It is opportune to discuss occupational skin disorders since recently a 'Save your Skin' Campaign has been undertaken in the United Kingdom by the Employment Advisory Service of the Health and Safety Executive to increase the awareness of employers and employees of the need to prevent skin problems in industry.' This was justified because skin disorders caused by substances at work are the most...

Although acrylic monomers are strong skin sensitizers (1), their corresponding fully cured polymers are considered to be inert. Until recent years, allergic contact dermatitis caused by acrylates, the term comprising, in the following, also methacrylates, was primarily an occupational disease among dentists, printers, and fiberglass workers (2). In our practice, there has been a steady increase...

BACKGROUND Skin diseases are common occupational illnesses for farmworkers. Migrant farmworkers commonly access rural health clinics for diagnosis and treatment of skin disease. PURPOSE To assess common skin conditions of migrant farmworkers treated in rural clinics and to describe effective and economic management of these conditions. METHODS Seventy-nine farmworkers with a skin condition ...

Acrylates andmethacrylates are the salts, esters and conjugate bases of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, respectively. They are well known to cause allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) (1). Occupational contact dermatitis (OCD) resulting from the use of (meth)acrylates has been widely reported in beauticians and ‘nail artists’. According to The Health and Occupation Research database, the freque...

Nickel is the major cause of allergic contact dermatitis in the general population, both among children and adults, as well as in large occupational groups. This metal is used in numerous industrial and consumer products, including stainless steel, magnets, metal plating, coinage, and special alloys, and is therefore almost impossible to completely avoid in daily life. Nickel contact dermatitis...

Introduction: Epoxy resins, widely used in several industrial sectors, are among the main causes of allergic contact dermatitis. The wind turbine production industry is one sectors that uses these products widely. This study aimed to assess prevalence allergy epoxy resin and its components blades workers with suspected dermatitis.
 Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis patch test ...