Contact Dermatitis Case Studies

Irritant contact dermatitis occurs when the skin is damaged due to direct contact with chemical substances such as alkalis, acid, solvents etc. this is the most common type of contact dermatitis. People vary in sensitivity that is, some may react after a single exposure, while others maybe after several exposures and some may develop tolerance to the chemical substance over a period of time.

A mother of a gay student that faced bullying stated in an article, that anyone who has “‘’hate in their hearts’” should accept people with differences because they are “‘going to be who they are’” (James, Boy Assaults Gay Student as Cellphone Captures Attack). In a perfect society, everyone would accept each other and not judge others based on appearance or social status. However, today many people still face the problem of acceptance. Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, illustrates how others can learn to be accepting from the characters in the novel. Scout leaves her naïve childhood behind and changes to into an accepting young adult through

“How To Watch Your Brother Die” written by Micheal Lassell is an interesting poem, though it reads like a short story. It is written almost as a guide to several different things. The main character is a straight man seeing a different lifestyle, that he had shut out, for the first time. The first time really seeing what other people, though gay, still human beings, have to go through to live in our society. A society that he has helped make into what it is. He is also a man watching his brother die in a hospital across the country. A brother he has shut out of his life because he disapproved of his lifestyle.

According to Merck Manual Professional Edition (n.d), contact dermatitis is a condition of skin becoming red and sore after contacting with allergens substances. The clinical manifestations that the 27 years old is showing contact dermatitis. Contact dermatitis is cell mediated hypersensitivity allergic reaction by Langerhans (dendrites epidermal cells), which then the cells migrate to reginal lymph nodes where they present the antigen to T cells. T cells then release cytokines and activate inflammatory cells. (Huether & McCance,

A delayed adverse reaction is a type 4 reaction where there is delayed tissue damage (Potter and Perry, 1997). The delayed reaction can take up 24-48 hours to apprear (Potter and Perry, 1997). Signs and symptoms of a delayed reaction are contact dermatitis (Potter and Perry, 1997). Contact dermitis is a delayed hypersensitivity reaction involving the skin (Potter and Perry, 1997). The person develops lesions with the first 48 hours (Potter and Perry, 1997). The first onset of the leison they become very red and inflamed and are just localised to one area where as atopic dermatis present with the same symptoms but are more widespread across the body (Potter and Perry,

Dermatitis and eczema: swelling of the skin, normally encompassing swelling with an itchy rash. Dermatitis comes in many diverse forms, including atopic dermatitis (often mentioned as eczema), contact dermatitis and seborrheic dermatitis.

The different types of dermatitis are classified according to the cause of the condition. Contact is the condition caused by an allergen or an irritating substance.

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Backed by research, this article will cover Allergic Contact Dermatitis, its symptoms and how it can be managed.

Like we learned in chapter 1 the job of the integumentary system is to cover and protect the body but what happens if your skin develops a disease like eczema? Eczema is a chronic, common, non-infective inflammatory condition characterized by intense pruritus, redness, and scaling (Eczema, p.1). This condition can appear at any age, but it usually occurs during infancy or early childhood (Eczema, p.1). Eczema or any skin disease are the most common group of occupational health problems leading to absence from work (Eczema, p.1). Several factors play a big role in eczema, both internally and externally, depending on your genetic makeup you may be prone to getting eczema in as early as a few months after you were born or by allergens as a young

Also known as dermatitis, eczema is one of the most common inflammatory skin conditions where, in the acute phase, the victims develop red raised lesions, oozing and crusting. At this stage, the patients are advised to avoid rubbing or scratching which may lead to the chronic stage of the disease, characterized by the red, darkened, thickened and scaly patches of the skin. On the basis of the particular cause and appearance, different types of eczema have been identified and all the cases are usually very itchy and red and may spread and worsen with scratching. More precisely, the symptoms involve irritating patches of dry, swollen, scaly, rough, cracked and reddened skin visible on the scalp, legs, ears, nose, arms and certain other areas

a chronic allergic dermatitis; a paradigmatic complex genetically-determined skin disorder which affects persons with the inherited predisposition to atopy, syndrome of allergic hypersensitivity, and can be characterized by the presence of an intense pruritus, a chronic or chronically relapsing course, an elevated level of serum IgE causing the high-grade sensitivity towards both specific (allergenic) and non-specific irritants and an inflammation of skin. According to Lyons et al. (2015), “it begins in the first 5 years of life in 90% of patients, and usually presents in a characteristic age-dependent distribution with facial, scalp, and extensor involvement in infants and young children, and predominant flexural involvement in older children

You should definitely realize that contamination is hurting nature as well as your skin. The polluting influences that we are presented to from the air and water have brought about the skin to look run down and lose its sparkle.

He has been in contact with chemicals and cleaning products at the newspaper plant and admits that he does not always wear gloves. Upon contact between the skin and the allergen, a sensitizing antigen called a hapten is created, which is then processed by the Langerhans cells and presented to the T cells to remember the allergen (Huether & McCance, 2017). This process occurs through type four cell mediated hypersensitivity reaction as there is a delayed reaction to the irritant. Type four hypersensitivity causes a response from the T lymphocytes, or from Th1 and Th7 cells that produce cytokines to activate macrophages (Huether & McCance, 2017). The tissue is then attacked and destroyed by the direct killing from the T cells or release of soluble factors from the macrophages (Huether & McCance, 2017). In the case of Jack, his primary exposure to the cleaning products began the induction phase, however, his secondary contact triggered a type four cell mediated response in which his hands became red and

As conferred for canine AD, there is a strong crosstalk between epidermal barrier and atopic inflammation. The 465 overall hypothesis is that epidermal barrier impairment allows allergen/antigen to reach resident antigen 466 presenting cells thus