DERMATITIS DUE TO NAIL POLISH
- 1 July 1944
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 50 (1) , 39-44
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1944.01510130042013
Abstract
Nail polish was first introduced in 1919 as a solution of collodion, which left a film on drying.1Numerous technical improvements have now made nail polish a complex product, consisting essentially of a film-forming base, such as nitrocellulose, to which are added various types of resins, solvents, plasticizers, coloring materials and, in some cases, perfume. Sporadic cases of dermatitis due to nail polish were recorded as far back as 1925,2and it is possible that in the succeeding decade unrecognized examples of this eruption occurred. The situation in regard to the incidence of this dermatitis seems to have changed radically in the past five or six years, and the cases can now be numbered in the hundreds, if not in the thousands. This occurrence in epidemic form makes one suspect that most of these cases are caused by the incorporation of some new ingredient. There hasKeywords
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