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Contact urticaria due to polyethylene gloves
Author(s) -
Sugiura Keiji,
Sugiura Mariko,
Shiraki Rika,
Hayakawa Ritsuko,
Shamoto Mikihiro,
Sasaki Kazumi,
Itoh Akira
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
contact dermatitis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1600-0536
pISSN - 0105-1873
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-0536.2002.460503.x
Subject(s) - medicine , contact urticaria , dermatology , allergy , contact dermatitis , antihistamine , allergic contact dermatitis , surgery , anesthesia , immunology
We report a rare case of contact urticaria due to polyethylene gloves. The patient, a 46‐year‐old cook, had had had chronic urticaria since 1985, and first visited our hospital in June 2000. We began by prescribing antihistamine and antiallergenic drugs for him, but his condition did not improve. From a detailed interview, we established that when he put on polyethylene gloves at work, his condition worsened. We suspected some component of his gloves to be the cause of his symptoms. Prick and scratch tests with a solution extracted from his gloves showed a wheal‐and‐flare reaction at 15 min. We advised him to wear a cotton shirt under his clothes in daily life, and to put on cotton gloves under his polyethylene gloves while at work. Subsequently, the size and the number of wheals were markedly smaller and the subject's symptoms were reduced.