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- Title
Contact dermatitis from nail polish: an unusual clinical response.
- Authors
Handa, Sanjeev; Kumar, Bhushan
- Abstract
The article presents information on the contact dermatitis from nail polish. Cosmetics react in 4-13% of patch tested patients, only 8% of such reactions being to nail products. The wide clinical spectrum of contact dermatitis from nail products includes onycholysis. Dermatitis at distant sites, splitting and peeling of the nail plate, nail fold dermatitis or paronychia, onychodystrophy, transverse striate leukonychia, and even partial loss of nail plate. Granulomatous contact dermatitis from nail polish has, not been reported before. The range of ingredients of nail polishes provides several candidates as possible causes, the granulomatous reaction perhaps being akin to that produced by sodium zirconium lactate in deodorants.
- Subjects
SKIN inflammation; NAILS (Anatomy); POLISHES; PARONYCHIA; DEODORANTS
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 1996, Vol 35, Issue 2, p118
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0536.1996.tb02314.x