DERMATITIS FROM NAIL LACQUER APPLIED TO COSTUME JEWELRY
- 1 February 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 63 (2) , 264-265
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1951.01570020098018
Abstract
Dermatitis due to nail lacquer is fairly common. A case was reported by Miller and Taussig in 19251 and in 1941 Osborne, Jordon and Campbell2 analyzed a large series. They mentioned the commercial use of identical lacquers for coating such articles as leather hand-bags, purses, belts, glass beads, wooden and metal jewelry, hairpins, cigaret cases, vanity cases, pens, pencils, broom handles, buttons, straw hats and playing cards. The dermatitis is of the erythematosquamous variety, the upper eyelids, chin, front of the neck and ears being commonly involved, and occasionally the anogenital areas. Thus nail lacquer is an occasional cause of pruritus vulvae. In discussing the paper of Osborne and associates Dr. Ralph Hopkins mentioned the case of a woman who had used nail lacquer to "revive" an old set of earrings; dermatitis of the face and ear lobes had followed. Lacquers of various shades as well as clearKeywords
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