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- Title
Nickel allergy and atopy in hairdressers.
- Authors
Wahlberg, Jan E.
- Abstract
A study of 35 hairdressers with hand eczema was made during an 18-month period. A total of 29 were test-positive to one or more substances in the standard series and/or to products from their working environment. 40 % were allergic to nickel. The prevalence of personal atopy was higher in the nickel-negative than in the nickel-positive. Immunoglobulin E determination was not of assistance in attempts to differentiate between nickel-positive and nickel-negative hairdressers. In 72 % the eczema had started before the age of 25 and in 23 % after less than 1 year in the profession. The desire is expressed that all hair- dressing products shall be labelled in respect of allergen contents, since 46 % of the hairdressers reacted to one or more such agents.
- Subjects
NICKEL; SKIN inflammation; ECZEMA; COSMETOLOGISTS; HAIRDRESSING &; health; WORK environment
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 1975, Vol 1, Issue 3, p161
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0536.1975.tb05358.x