Occupational Health - Public Health Poster Session

Re: ANAMNESTICAL RISK FACTORS OF ALLERGIC CONTACT DERMATITIS IN, WORKERS HANDLING CHEMICAL ALLERGENS Comments

On Fri Dec 11, Lucian Tefas wrote
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>Which was the male/female ratio in the studied group?
>The cutanate manifestions of those 68 subjects with ACD could be considered with a sure allergic etiology? It's exclused the orthoergic component?
>The cutanate manifestions were exclusive installed after the contact with the ACD determination suposed substances?
>Which is the average of the profesional exposure age? There is any relationship between the exposure age and the ACD occurence?

Male/female ratio was about 1:5
Surely we evaluated only allergic dermatitis, the symptoms of which appeared not only on contaminated skin but also on wear-closed skin, the symptoms appeared after some period of contact with allergens and disappeared in several days after stopping contact with allergen. Rather great number of workers had the signs of respiratory allergy simultaneosly. Patch test with epoxy resin and amine hardener were positive in 15 workers. But of course we didn't exclude non-occupational allergy, because the pathogenetical mechanism of occupational and non-occupational allergy is the same.
So we evaluated rather predisposition to allergy in general.
First signs of skin allergy could appear from the 2nd month of work with allergens, their maximum was at length of work from 5 to 9 years.

Fri Dec 11