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- Title
Contact allergy to spices.
- Authors
van den Akker, Th. W.; Roesyanto-Mahadi, I. D.; van Toorentenbergen, A. W.; van Joost, Th.
- Abstract
A group of 103 patients suspected of contact allergy was tested with the European standard series, wood tars and spices: paprika, cinnamon, laurel, celery seed, nutmeg, curry, black pepper, cloves, white pepper, coriander, casao and garlic, 32 patients (Group I) were selected on the basis of positive tests to one or more of possible indicators for allergy to spices: colophony, balsam of Peru, fragrance-mix and/or wood tars, 71 patients (Group II) showed no response to these indicators. In Group I (n=32) a statistically significantly higher % of patients (47%) showed positive reactions to 1 or more spices, compared with 15% in Group II (N=71). Among the spices, the highest numbers of reactions were found to nutmeg (28%), paprika (19%) and cloves (12%) in the indicator-positive Group I. Fragrance-mix turned out to be particularly important indicator allergen, especially for paprika, nutmeg and cloves. The contact allergy in 11 out of 32 (Group I) and 7 out of 25 patch-tested patients (recruited from Group) II) appeared to be directed mainly against the ether-extractable volatile fractions of the spices.
- Subjects
CONTACT dermatitis; ALLERGIES; SPICES; SKIN tests; ALLERGENS; SKIN inflammation
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 1990, Vol 22, Issue 5, p267
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0536.1990.tb01594.x