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- Title
Allergy to lanolin.
- Authors
Mortensen, Tove
- Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to compare the frequency of lanolin allergy during two periods and to assess the adequacy of testing with one standard allergen. Among 1230 consecutive patients with eczema who were standard patch tested, 33 (2.7 %), 21 females and 12 males, gave a positive reaction to wool alcohols. Among 899 consecutive patients with eczema standard patch tested and also tested with the lanolin derivatives hydrogenated lanolin 30% in soft yellow paraffin. Amerchol L 101®, and a mixture of lanolin derivatives, 60 patients (6.6 %), 48 females and 12 males, gave a positive reaction to lanolin and/or its derivatives. The results show that testing with one standard lanolin allergen is inadequate for detecting lanolin allergy.
- Subjects
ALLERGIES; LANOLIN; ALLERGENS; ECZEMA; ALKANES; SKIN inflammation
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 1979, Vol 5, Issue 3, p137
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0536.1979.tb04824.x