Batik Putra Laweyan Company is a batik company in Surakarta which use the chemicals irritant that it can be potent to develop of skin disease among the workers, such as skin irritant contact dermatitis (lCD). There are endogen factor playing role in developing ICD, such as skin barrier and atopic history. The purpose of this research is to know the influence of atopic history in developing ICD …
The actiology of atopic dermatitis (AD) is still controversial and IgE mediated immediate type allergy is probably not the only mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of this chronic skin disease. In search of other possible mechanism of the pathogenesis, this study was conducted. Seventy seven patients included to the research and 55 clinically diagnosed as AD, while 22 patients with various o…
Food allergy (FA) is acknowledged as one of the factors that can precipitate the exacerbation of skin lesions among atopic dermatitis (AD) patients. It is also noted that the cause of the food allergy were different in every part of the world, and depends on the type of food that has been consumed. A clinical study was conducted in the Department of Dermato-Venereology Medical Faculty Padjadjar…
One hundred and two patients with atopic dermatitis were enrolled in a descriptive study to obtain the percentage of each clinical feature using the criteria of Hanifin-Rajka as a diagnostic guidelines. Diagnosis of atopic dermatitis would require the percence of at least 3 or more basic features and 3 or more minor features. We found pruritus in 102 (100 percent), spesific distribution of the …
A standard patch test set of 23 allergens (ICDRG-Trolab Hermal) was tested on 90 patients with atopic dermatitis in a sigle, open, non comparative study. The patients were selected using the Hanifin-Rajka clinical features criteria as diagnostic guidelines. Assessment was done after 72 hours after application of the allergens. Forty one (45.5 percent) patients, consisting of 19 males (46.3 perc…
Thirty children with age variation from infancy to 12 years suffering from atopic dermatitis were evaluated for food hypersensitivity according to history, skin prick test, total eosinophil and elimination of suspected food. Sixteen (53.5 percent) experienced with other allergic of suspected food. Sixteen (53.5 percent) experienced with other allergic diseases. One of the parents of 15 (50 perc…
Defence mechanism can be divided in two kinds of mechanism. The first is non specific and the second is specific mechanism. The first mechanism based on the non specific activities which mediated by macrophages and the second mechanism based on the activities of the immunocompetent cells and its effectors which consists of T cells, antibodies, cytokines and or interleukins. In nature there is s…