Primula dermatitis: more than one allergen?

Dooms-Goossens, A; Biesemans, G.; Vandaele, M.; Degreef, H.

Contact allergic reactions to Primula obconica have been detected for the past several years with a patch test to synthetic primin 0.01% pet. Since most such cases are clinically undetectable, primin has been included in the European standard series. Since February 1985, the authors have routinely tested primin 0.01% pet, in 4253 consecutive patients. It was positive 13 times, but the authors would have missed primula allergy in 2 patients if they had relied exclusively on primin. A 28-year-old woman had recurring outbreaks of itchy vesicles on the fingertips, from February to May 1988, which progressively worsened and extended to the palms and the backs of her hands.

PRIMROSES; PRIMULACEAE; ALLERGIES; IMMUNOLOGIC diseases; WOMEN patients; SKIN diseases

Contact Dermatitis (01051873), 1989, Vol 21, Issue 2, p122

0105-1873

Academic Journal

10.1111/j.1600-0536.1989.tb04719.x