Textile dye contact dermatitis in an allergic population

Textile dye allergic contact dermatitis prevalence

“…11 textile-dye prevalence articles were published from 1989 to 1999 (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) and an additional article provides data from which textile-dye prevalence can be obtained (13) (Tables 1-3). 1 article reports 4 studies (10), 1 article reports 3 studies (13), 2 articles report 2 studies each (2,3) and the remaining 8 articles report 1 study each for a total of 19 studies.…”

“…Whether women are more susceptible to sensitization by textile dyes is not known as these %s may be a reflection of the proportion of men to women in the study patient population and not necessarily reflective of the total population. The only data available to compare the proportion of women patch test positive to the proportion in the study population is that of Lodi et al (6); there were 701 women and 311 men making the proportion of females 69.3%. This proportion approximates the proportion of women patch test positive to at least 1 dye (68%).…”

“…While dermatologists have reported cases of skin reactions suspected to be caused by textile dyes since 1869 (1), they have reported textile-dye prevalence results only during the last decade (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). This article summarizes the textile-dye prevalence studies (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) and makes recommendations for advancing knowledge about textile-dye sensitization.…”

“…This article summarizes the textile-dye prevalence studies (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) and makes recommendations for advancing knowledge about textile-dye sensitization.…”

Textile Dyes as Allergic Contact Allergens

“…However, some data is available that assists in establishing prevalence of textile dye ACD in Europeans, specifically Italians. At least 12 articles contain textile dye prevalence information [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Two of these articles [13,21] focus on patch testing textile and garment manufacturing employees and the remaining ten focus on patch testing people without occupational exposure to dyes.…”