CHLORPROMAZINE DERMATITIS

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To the Editor:— Considerable amounts of chlorpromazine are used in this hospital, and there has been one severe case of dermatitis in a nurse who handled this material. Treatment was instituted after the allergy first became apparent, and she returned to work using the recommended precautions of gloves and other routine care. Even this exposure was too much for her, however, and she developed a generalized dermatitis requiring hospitalization and two months' loss of work after being exposed only to the fumes from broken vials of this material. We are now following the practice of relieving any nurse or any attendant following the slightest allergy to this material completely from all further contact.

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