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Actual risk of contact dermatitis in hairdressers
Author(s) -
CondeSalazar Luis,
Valks R
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.0105-1873.2004.0309gd.x
Subject(s) - dermatology , medicine , contact dermatitis , patch test , allergic contact dermatitis , hair dyes , irritant contact dermatitis , hand dermatitis , occupational dermatitis , allergy , immunology , chemistry , organic chemistry , dyeing
In order to know the actual risk of contact dermatitis in hairdressers, we studied, from 1994 to 2003, 300 hairdressers of a total of 7510 patients seen in our Department of occupational skin diseases. Most of them were women (93%) with a mean age of 23.7 years. A positive patch test response to one or more of the allergens tested was presented by 215 patients (71.7%). Occupational allergic contact dermatitis was diagnosed in 174 cases (58%). The most frequent sensitizations showed by positive patch test response were to: PPD (54.3%), 4‐aminobenzene (40.7%), nickel (36.7%), disperse orange (17%), p‐toluene‐diamine (15.3%), ammonium persulfate (14.3%), aminophenoles (14.0%), acid thioglycolic (12.7%) and kathon (10.3%). Irritant contact dermatitis (20%), no occupational allergic contact dermatitis (5.3%), atopic dermatitis (6.7%) were some of the other diagnoses between the hairdressers. We compare these results with those of a previous study of 379 hairdressers who attended our department from 1980 to 1993, in order to evaluate the effects of the changes in the substances and techniques used in hairdressing and the occupational education in the risk of sensitization in this trade.