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- Title
Ethoxyquin dermatitis.
- Authors
Zachariae, Hugh
- Abstract
This article presents a clinical investigation report on three cases of contact dermatitis due to ethoxyquin-sensitivity in apple packers. It is described that ethoxyquin is an antioxidant which has been used with a detergent to prevent apple scald. One of the case discusses the establishment of an ethoxyquin contact sensitivity causing exfoliative dermatitis. After the disease was controlled with topical steroids, the patient was tested with various pig feed mixtures and showed strong positive reactions to four of these. Due to a certain similarity between ethoxyquin and quindoxin, which is a known carcinogen, it was suspected that the patient could have become a chronic light reactor after photosensitization by the drug. Another case, in an agricultural worker, of severely pruritic psoriasiform nummular eczema and contact dermatitis is discussed which was caused due to ethoxyquin-sensitization.
- Subjects
CONTACT dermatitis; SKIN inflammation; ALLERGIES; ECZEMA; STEROIDS; CLEANING compounds; PSORIASIS; PHOTOSENSITIZATION
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 1978, Vol 4, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0536.1978.tb03752.x