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- Title
Formaldehyde-negative allergic contact dermatitis from melamine-formaldehyde resin.
- Authors
Aalto-Korte, K.; Jolanki, R.; Estlander, T.
- Abstract
Melamine-formaldehyde resin (MFR) is used as a textile finish, in tableware, in surface coatings, and in glues in the furniture and wood industry. MFR is considered to be an infrequent sensitizer. Contact allergy to MFR is often combined with formaldehyde allergy. Patients allergic to textile finish often react to MFR, although other finishes are nowadays more commonly used. Besides allergy to textile finish, allergic contact dermatitis from MFR has been described in workers in composite production and in an orthopaedic plaster technician. To our knowledge, there are no previous reports of contact allergy in the plywood industry from MFR. We describe 3 cases of occupational allergic contact dermatitis from MFR without contact allergy to formaldehyde, 1 in the plywood industry, 1 in the production of melamine-laminated chipboard and 1 in laboratory work.
- Subjects
FORMALDEHYDE; TEXTILE finishing agents; TEXTILE chemicals; SKIN inflammation; CONTACT dermatitis; PLYWOOD industry
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 2003, Vol 49, Issue 4, p194
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0105-1873.2003.0219.x