Allergic contact dermatitis in children. A multicenter study of the Portuguese Contact Dermatitis Group (GPEDC)

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalo, S
• Data de Publicação: 1992
• Outros Autores: Gonçalo, Margarida, Azenha, A, Barros, MA, Sousa-Bastos, A, Brandão, FM, Faria, A, Marques, MS, Pecegueiro, M, Rodrigues, JB, Salgueiro, E, Torres, V
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/1456
• topic: Dermatite de Contacto; Adolescente; Criança

The authors report a study of allergic contact dermatitis in 329 Portuguese children of 14 years or younger. 170 children (64 male and 106 female) reacted to 1 or more allergens. Most of these were in the 11-14 years group. The main allergens were nickel, thimerosal, cobalt, mercury, fragrance-mix and potassium dichromate. Nickel reactivity predominated in females over the whole group, but a greater number of males younger than 5 years reacted to nickel. The number of positive reactions increased with age, but this was not accompained by an increase in the % of relevant tests. 12 children, all of them 13 or 14 years-old, had an occupational allergic contact dermatitis.