Sotolongo AO, Domínguez SSP

Language: Spanish
References: 21
Page: 352-360
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The occupational Dermatitis is an inflammation of the skin caused by the labor environment or contact of a harmful substance, being considered the more frequent health problem in the labor environment. Objective: To describe the characteristics of the patients with occupational Dermatitis assisted in a consultation of Dermatology during 2015. Material and Methods: He/she was carried out a traverse descriptive investigation with a sample of 56 people diagnosed with this illness and that they went to consultation of Dermatology of the Policlinic "Pedro Fonseca" during everything 2015. Results: 58,9% was of the feminine sex who had more than 5 years of work and they began the symptoms before more than 12 months. 100% of the patients had erythematous lesions and 94,6% of them presented lichenification. The presentation of the scabby lesions was of 69,6 more evident% in hands and risks. Conclusions: The patients with diagnostic of occupational Dermatitis were the most frequent in the consultation of Dermatology of our health area during 2015. The atopic occupational Dermatitis overcame in number of diagnosed cases and in severity of the lesions to the occupational irritating Dermatitis, being also the one with the bigger time of evolution of the symptoms.

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