Contact dermatitis in Nigeria
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Contact Dermatitis
- Vol. 17 (3), 136-138
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0536.1987.tb02691.x
Abstract
In a series of 545 consecutive contact dermatitis clinic patients, 274 (50.3%) were men, 56 (20.4%) of whom had hand dermatitis alone, 40 (71.4%) being allergic. The common sensitisers were dichromate in cement, nickel on metal gates, colophony, epoxy resins and rubber chemicals. 48 (85.7%) of the hand cases came from occupational sources. Half of the patch-test-negative men worked in wet jobs. The hands of Nigerian men appear to be less tolerant to irritant wet jobs than those of women who had the opportunity of becoming hardened from childhood.Keywords
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