Open AccessCompositae dermatitis
Author(s) -
M Jovanović,
M Poljacki
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns0302043j
Subject(s) - parthenium hysterophorus , parthenium , medicine , contact dermatitis , dandelion , traditional medicine , allergic contact dermatitis , dermatology , lactuca , population , ragweed , allergy , botany , biology , environmental health , weed , immunology , pathology , alternative medicine , traditional chinese medicine
Compositae dermatitis is an allergic contact dermatitis caused by plant species of the Compositae family. The first report of a cutaneous reaction to the Chrysanthemum genus was made by Howe JS in 1887. In 1895 Maiden JH reported about skin lesions among men working with Tagetes minuta. Case reports of contact allergic-ragweed dermatitis appeared in the American literature as early as 1919. The North American feverfew--Parthenium Hysterophorus was brought to India from America in 1956 and it caused thousands of cases of so-called parthenium dermatitis. Ragweed and parthenium dermatitis became prototypes for the classic, so-called "airborne" Compositae dermatitis, that affects primarily exposed skin surfaces, and produces a universal erythroderma.