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Contact sensitivity to flavourings and perfumes in atopic dermatitis
R Abifadel1, P Mortureux, M Perromat
1Service de Dermatologie, Hôpital des Enfants, Bordeaux, France.
Contact Dermatitis
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
16 children with atopic dermatitis and 4 nonatopics were skin tested with flavourings and perfumes. Immediate reactions to balsam of Peru and fragrance-mix were found in 9 atopics, and none among nonatopics. An irritant is more probable than an immunologic mechanism. Allergen solutions should probably be assayed at a lower concentration in atopic patients. This study points to a possible aggravating factor from perfumes and flavourings ingested, inhaled, or used as cosmetics.