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Contact sensitization to fragrances other than fragrance mix I in China
Author(s) -
Liu Jing,
Li LinFeng
Publication year - 2015
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 - 10.1111/cod.12423
Subject(s) - beijing , friendship , medicine , china , capital (architecture) , family medicine , political science , law , sociology , history , social science , ancient history
Although fragrance mix I (FM I) has been widely used to detect fragrance allergy, it can only detect up to 85% of fragrance-allergic patients (1). In the recent study by Mann et al. (2), only 57.6% of patients tested with an extended series of fragrance ingredients (the 26 substances required to be labelled in the EU) also reacted to a fragrance marker in the baseline series. In 2005, we reported that the prevalence of contact allergy to FM I in patients with eczema was 15.9% (3). Given that more and more Chinese are using fragrance-containing cosmetics, and are also exposed to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which may also contain fragrances, it is interesting to study fragrance allergy beyond FM I in China.