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Rubber allergy among construction workers in a prefabrication construction factory
Author(s) -
GOH C.L.,
GAN S.L.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1987.tb02502.x
Subject(s) - prefabrication , factory (object oriented programming) , medicine , family medicine , dermatology , engineering , civil engineering , computer science , programming language
Summary Out of 272 workers in a prefabrication construction factory, 83 workers (30.5%) used rubber gloves and/or boots as protective clothing. 2.9% (8/272) of all workers, or 9.6% (8/83) of those using rubber gloves and/or boots, were sensitive to one or more rubber mixes of the ICDRG standard series; 50% (4/8) had unexplained positive reactivity; three of the four with relevant positive reactivity had concomitant allergic dermatitis from chromate in cement. All four workers with relevant positive reactivity to rubber mixes were sensitized by their gloves. The most common rubber sensitizers were PPD mix (4/8) and carba mix (4/8); none was sensitive to thiuram mix. It appeared that rubber sensitivity was related to cement dermatitis and that the ‘occupational’ rubber mixes, PPD mix and carba mix, were the more common sensitizers.