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- Title
Effect of betamethasone on patch test reactivity in patients with parthenium dermatitis.
- Authors
Verma, Kaushal K.; Mahesh, R.; Bhari, Neetu; Pandey, Ravinder Mohan
- Abstract
The article focuses on the effect of oral betamethasone on patch test reactivity in patients who are allergic to the plant Parthenium hysterophorus. It mentions that systemic corticosteroids are responsible for suppression of patch test reactivity. It presents the results of pre-betamethasone treatment and post-betamethasone treatment patch test on patients with clinical diagnosis of parthenium dermatitis.
- Subjects
SKIN inflammation; PARTHENIUM hysterophorus; STEROID drugs; TRANSDERMAL medication; SKIN disease treatment; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 2016, Vol 75, Issue 3, p193
- ISSN
0105-1873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cod.12601