Air & Water Borne Diseases
Open Access

Review Article

An Overview of Airborne Contact Dermatitis

¹Department of Dermatology, Venereology, Leprology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

²Department of Microbiology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India

*Corresponding Author:

Sunil Kumar Gupta
Department of Dermatology
Venereology Leprology Dayanand Medical College & Hospital Ludhiana
Punjab, India
E-mail: vsunilgupta@rediffmail.com

Received date: May 27, 2016; Accepted date: June 05, 2016; Published date: June 10, 2016

Citation:Gupta SK, Monika, Gupta V, Deepika (2016) An Overview of Airborne Contact Dermatitis. Air Water Borne Diseases 5:126. doi: 10.4172/2167- 7719.1000126

Copyright: © 2016 Gupta SK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Airborne-contact dermatitis (ABCD) is a form of contact dermatitis which originates from air borne allergens like dust, sprays, pollens etc. ABCD is most commonly seen secondary to plant antigens especially to compositae family. However, recently cases of ABCD due to non-plant allergens have also been reported. This review focuses on common air borne allergens/irritants, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and management of air borne contact dermatitis.

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