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Textbook of Contact Dermatitis

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Clothes help to regulate skin temperature and moisture, and protect from environmental injuries. They should be safe, with no toxicity, carcinogenicity or allergenicity. Reports of clothing dermatitis are frequently individual, except from rare epidemics [1, 2] occurring from furs dyed byp-phenylenediamine (PPD) and derivatives in the 1920s [3], from dyed nylon stockings in the 1940s [3, 4], or from black “velvet” clothing and blouses in the 1980s [5, 6]. Epidemiological studies regarding this topic are most often not controlled, and habitually report a frequency of positive patch tests to textile additives, mainly dyes or finishes [7–15]. Thus, the prevalence of sensitization to substances potentially implicated in textile dermatitis is around 1–5% of tested patients, but the clinical relevance of such tests is sometimes questionable. It is difficult to determine its exact incidence for these reasons, but some data suggest that clothing dermatitis is not rare [4, 14].

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  1. St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, St. Thomas’s Hospital, SE1 7EH, London, UK

    Richard J. G. Rycroft

  2. Department of Dermatology, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Niels Andersens Vej 65, 2900, Hellerup, Denmark

    Torkil Menné

  3. Hautklinik der Städtischen Kliniken Dortmund, Abteilung Dermatologie, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Beurhausstraße 40, 44137, Dortmund, Germany

    Peter J. Frosch

  4. Clinique Dermatologique Laboratoire de Dermatochimie, Univ. Louis Pasteur, 1 Place de L’Hôpital, 67091, Strasbourg, France

    Jean-Pierre Lepoittevin

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Le Coz, CJ. (2001). Clothing. In: Rycroft, R.J.G., Menné, T., Frosch, P.J., Lepoittevin, JP. (eds) Textbook of Contact Dermatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10302-9_34

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