[Polyvalent contact allergy in a florist]

A female florist, who ran a flowershop from 1954 to 1966 had to quit her job because of her known contact allergy due to chrysanthemums and primrose. Though in the meantime 12 years had passed she suffered occasionally from redness of the pharynx and stomachache after ingestion of tea prepared from yarrow and camomile. Cleaning off her garden from weeds and frequently followed by swelling of her face and pruritus. After epicutaneous testing she developed positive reactions to chrysanthemum as well as cross reactions to sunflower, arnica, camomile, yarrow, tansy, mugwort and frullania (this lichen does not occur in the Northern part of Germany). Patch test with primin revealed the persistence of the highgrade hypersensitivity to Primula.