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Elnaz F Firoz1, Rowena K Turnbull, Cynthia A Loomis
1Department of Dermatology, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode IslandDepartment of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New YorkDermatology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Abstract:
We report a case of allergic contact dermatitis to WEBCOL(®) alcohol prep pads in a healthy 17-year-old girl who showed no reaction to the individual components of the prep pads upon provocative use testing. Although several case reports have described allergic contact dermatitis to isopropyl alcohol, there have been no reports of allergic contact dermatitis to alcohol prep pads sterilized with gamma irradiation, a common sterilization technique capable of producing volatile products in this type of alcohol prep pad.
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