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Contact dermatitis from silver fulminate – fulminate itch
Author(s) -
White Ian R.,
Rycroft R. J. G.
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.tb04175.x
Subject(s) - contact dermatitis , dermatology , allergic contact dermatitis , medicine , allergy , immunology
Although fulminates were widely used in the past as explosives, they are now little encountered. Fulminate itch is of historical interest. We have investigated a factory utilising silver fulminate in the manufacture of explosive snaps. Workers in this factory still experience the ‘itch’, which we consider to have both an irritant and an allergic basis.