Irritant Dermatitis

Classification and Clinical Features.- Ten Genotypes of Irritant Contact Dermatitis.- Irritant Contact Dermatitis ersus Allergic Contact Dermatitis.- Special Clinical Forms.- Barrier Function and Perturbation: Relevance for Interdigital Dermatitis.- Friction Melanosis.- Diaper Dermatitis.- Chemical Skin Burns.- Contact Urticaria Syndrome.- Airborne Irritant Dermatitis.- Irritant Dermatitis of the Scalp.- rritant Contact Dermatitis of the Nails.- Epidemiology.- Importance of Irritant Contact Dermatitis in Occupational Skin Disease.- Irritant Contact Dermatitis in the Tropics.- Occupational Irritant Dermatitis.- Occupational Issues of Irritant Contact Dermatitis.- Hairdressing.- Occupational Irritant Dermatitis - Metal Workers.- Health Care Workers.- The Electronics Industry.- Painters, Lacquerers, and Varnishers.- Risk Factors for Irritant Dermatitis.- Age.- Gender.- Ethnicity.- Atopy.- Insights from Bioengineering.- Prediction Bioengineering.- Quantitative Sonography for the Evaluation of Irritant Reactions.- Functional Skin Testing: the SMART Procedures.- Bioengineering Correlates of the Sensitive Skin Syndrome: The Sensory Irritation Component.- Squamometry.- The Irritants: Special Issues.- Corrosive Materials.- Detergents.- Sodium Lauryl Sulfate.- Organic Solvents.- Oils, Cutting Fluids, and Lubricants.- Food.- Dithranol.- Copper.- Fatty Acid Binding Proteins.- Mechanisms of Irritant Dermatitis.- Histopathology of Irritant Contact Dermatitis.- Percutaneous Absorption and Irritant Dermatitis.- Cytokines and Irritant Dermatitis.- Oxidative Stress.- Langerhans Cells and Skin Irritation.- Hydration Injury.- Prevention of Irritant Dermatitis.- Primary Prevention of Irritant Contact Dermatitis.- Protective Gloves.- Anti-Irritants.- Barrier Creams.- Moisturizers.-Moisturizers and Irritant Contact Dermatitis (2).- Effects of CO2 on Barrier Recovery.- Management and Therapy.- Treatment of Irritant Contact Dermatitis.- Topical Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Irritant

From the reviews of the first edition:



"The authors of Irritant Dermatitis have written an exhaustive review of the subject. Early chapters cover common presentations of irritant dermatitis, and later chapters describe occupation-related dermatoses...This textbook is essential for the occupational medicine physician and the dermatologist... It will also serve as a resource for scientists and regulators in industry, who are constantly striving to understand skin irritation." NEJM

"This book comprises an exhaustive reference text on irritant contact dermatitis, covering all aspects of the condition: clinical features, epidemiology, prevention and therapy, prognosis, mechanisms, pathology and regulatory issues. The book also presents novel in vitro and in vivo research techniques and findings. As irritant dermatitis affects multiple specialties, the audience for this book is wide, including clinical and investigative dermatologists, allergists, toxicologists, pharmaceutical scientists, occupational and environmental physicians, public health physicians, cosmetologists and skin bioengineers." (Journal of Investigational Allergology, Vol. 16 (5), 2006)

"Irritant contact dermatitis - once viewed as the poor relation of allergic contact dermatitis - has now become a field of its own. ... the book is of great value for all clinicians and researchers interested in the field of irritant contact dermatitis. ... It is astonishing how many different aspects of irritant contact dermatitis, including diaper dermatitis, friction melanosis, chemical skin burns, contact urticaria syndrome, airborne irritant contact dermatitis and irritant contact dermatitis of the nails, are included in the book." (Ehrhardt Proksch, Archives of Dermatological Research, March 2006)