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- Title
Oral hyposensitization in patients with contact dermatitis from Parthenium hysterophorus.
- Authors
Handa, Sanjeev; Sahoo, Bijaylaxmi; Sharma*, Vinod K.
- Abstract
Parthenium hysterophorus is the commonest cause of airborne contact dermatitis in northern India. Treatment is mostly palliative and consists of repeated courses of antihistamines and topical and/or systemic corticosteroids. We have evaluated the effect of oral hyposensitization as an alternative therapeutic modality. In 70% of those patients who completed the study, there was a gradual improvement in their clinical status, as evident from a fall in their clinical severity score for eczema. 30% of patients had an exacerbation during the course of the study and hence hyposensitization in them was stopped. Patients tolerated therapy well and no significant side-effects were seen, except for abdominal pain, ‘heartburn’ and cheilitis.
- Subjects
PARTHENIUM hysterophorus; TREATMENT of contact dermatitis; ALLERGY desensitization
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 2001, Vol 44, Issue 5, p279
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0536.2001.440505.x