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Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from drugs in pharmaceutical workers
Author(s) -
SerraBaldrich Esther,
Alomar A
Publication year - 2004
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/j.0105-1873.2004.0309cn.x
Subject(s) - allergic contact dermatitis , contact dermatitis , medicine , dermatology , occupational exposure , patch testing , occupational medicine , patch test , occupational dermatitis , allergy , contact allergy , immunology , environmental health
Occupationally‐induced reactions to medicaments occur in two exposed groups. The group that we discuss consists of employees of pharmaceutical and chemical companies involved in the production of drugs. We describe some patients who developed allergic contact dermatitis to specific drugs. Two of them we related to occupational exposure to simvastatin and other to n‐acetyl‐cysteina. Also one to diphendiprone. The diagnosis of airborne contact dermatitis was confirmed by patch test in all cases. We will do a review in this aspect on occupational contact dermatitis to foccus attention on the increasing importance of this aspect in pharmaceutical workers.