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Prescription forms
Contact dermatitis from handling prescription forms
From Mr R. I. Dunkley, MRPharmS
Some of your readers may remember that when the green FP10s were introduced
in 1998, I wrote to The Pharmaceutical Journal (18/25 December 1999, p971)
saying that my hands, after handling the new forms became cracked and bleeding,
and very uncomfortable.
The editor ran the letter as a news item. Within days I had telephone calls
from all over the UK from people with similar experiences to mine. Unfortunately,
when I was patch tested nothing came of it, but the condition never went
away, sometimes my hands were fine, and other times they were cracked.
The purpose of this letter is to ask anyone who contacted me in 1999 or
after, the question: “Has your skin condition gone away or got worse?” I
have just spent three weeks in Leeds General Infirmary as an inpatient
on the dermatology ward as the result of a massive flare up of eczema.
It was painful and developed within a week. I was covered in eczema from
head to foot. Fortunately the medical and nursing staff brought the condition
under some kind of control, and I am on the mend.
I am interested in finding if there is a link between the original contact
with the green FP10 forms that produced the bleeding and cracking, and
any subsequent flare ups that may be all over the body, or affect other
parts of the body.
I can be e-mailed at bob.dunkley@btinternet.com
Robert I. Dunkley
Leeds |
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Pharmaceutical Journal