Allergic contact dermatitis in children. A multicenter study of the Portuguese ...

• Author(s): Gonçalo, S ; Gonçalo, Margarida ; Azenha, A ; Barros, MA ; Sousa-Bastos, A ; Brandão, FM ; Faria, A ; Marques, MS ; Pecegueiro, M ; Rodrigues, JB ; Salgueiro, E ; Torres, V
• Date: 1992
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/1456
• Origin: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Dermatite de Contacto; Adolescente; Criança
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The authors report a study of allergic contact dermatitis in 329 Portuguese children of 14 years or younger. 170 children (64 male and 106 female) reacted to 1 or more allergens. Most of these were in the 11-14 years group. The main allergens were nickel, thimerosal, cobalt, mercury, fragrance-mix and potassium dichromate. Nickel reactivity predominated in females over the whole group, but a greater number of males younger than 5 years reacted to nickel. The number of positive reactions increased with age, but this was not accompained by an increase in the % of relevant tests. 12 children, all of them 13 or 14 years-old, had an occupational allergic contact dermatitis.