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Cost benefit of patch testing with textile finish resins
Author(s) -
Andersen Klaus E.,
Hamann Knud
Publication year - 1982
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.1600-0536.1982.tb04138.x
Subject(s) - textile , patch test , patch testing , allergic contact dermatitis , formaldehyde , contact dermatitis , dermatology , medicine , dentistry , composite material , pulp and paper industry , allergy , materials science , chemistry , engineering , immunology , organic chemistry
Eleven years experience of textile finish resin patch testing of suspected textile dermatitis patients revealed 15 cases of allergic textile dematitis among 428 patients tested. Ten of the 15 patients had a relevant positive patch test to one or more of a limited series of textile finishes; 1 was negative and 4 were not tested with textile finishes. All 15 patients were formaldehyde sensitive. No unexpected, relevant, positive textile finish resin patch test was found. In this study a negative patch test to formaldehyde virtually excluded allergic contact dermatitis from textile finishes.