Patient/caregiver was educated on risk factors for contact dermatitis activation as follows:
- Professional workers handling metals, such as, goldsmiths, blacksmiths, sheet metal workers, and construction workers increasingly expose themselves to gold, nickel, iron, and copper, and can be at increased risk for presentation with contact dermatitis. Individuals into the habit of wearing jewelry can also be at risk for contact dermatitis from contact with these metals.
- Hairdressers and beauticians are increasingly exposed to chemicals from cosmetics and are at risk to present with contact dermatitis.
- Workers doing hard labor cleaning floors and drains use a wide variety of chemicals like cleaning agents, disinfectants, bleach, and clog removers, which can be very strong on the skin, resulting in contact dermatitis.
- Workers in gardening and agricultural industry are at risk for contact dermatitis due to increased exposure to contact with plants such as, citrus/lime, parsley, poison ivy, poison oak, and many other.
