Work gloves may exacerbate contact dermatitis: a thorough glove history may help elucidate the cause of--and the solution to--on-the-job outbreaks.(Clinical Rounds)

Publication: Skin & Allergy News

Publication Date: 01-AUG-05

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HERSHEY, PA. -- The right pair of gloves can make all the difference to patients who develop contact dermatitis from the chemicals they are exposed to on the job, Matthew J. Zirwas, M.D., said at a meeting on contact dermatitis sponsored by Pennsylvania State University.

"There's a big importance to whenever you are investigating occupational cases and going to be doing glove recommendation that you really take a thorough glove history, and you really look at what that patient is doing, and what a glove will need to do," advised Dr. Zirwas, director of the contact and occupational dermatitis center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Zirwas described a case of a printing press operator who presented with a 6-month history of psoriasiform, fissuring, patchy dermatitis on the dorsal...

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