Occupational contact urticaria and rhinoconjunctivitis from dog’s milk in a veterinarian

  1. Caterina Foti1,*,
  2. Annarita Antelmi2,
  3. Gianni Mistrello3,
  4. Fabrizio Guarneri4,
  5. Raffaele Filotico1

Article first published online: 5 FEB 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2007.01029.x

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Contact Dermatitis

Contact Dermatitis

Volume 56, Issue 3, pages 169–171, March 2007

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Foti, C., Antelmi, A., Mistrello, G., Guarneri, F. and Filotico, R. (2007), Occupational contact urticaria and rhinoconjunctivitis from dog’s milk in a veterinarian. Contact Dermatitis, 56: 169–171. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2007.01029.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Internal Medicine, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Unit of Dermatology

  2. 2

    Department of Internal Medicine and Public Medicine, Unit of Occupational Health ‘E.C.Vigliani’, University of Bari, Bari

  3. 3

    Lofarma S.p.A., Research Department, Milano

  4. 4

    Institute of Dermatology, University of Messina, Italy

*Professor Caterina Foti, MD Unit of Dermatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Immunology and Infectious Diseases University of Bari Policlinico, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11 I-70124 Bari Italy Tel: +39 080 5478996 Fax: +39 080 5478954 e-mail: c.foti@dermatologia.uniba.it

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Keywords:

  • contact urticaria;
  • dog’s milk;
  • occupational;
  • veterinarians

We report the case of a 46-year-old veterinarian who developed rhinoconjunctivitis and contact urticaria (CU) on his hands and forearms after contact with dog’s milk. Prick tests results revealed a positive reactions to Parietaria pollens, Dermatophagoides farinae and D.pteronyssinus, dander of cat, grass, olive (+++), and to undiluted dog’s milk (++++). Control prick tests with dog’s milk performed in 5 healthy veterinarians were negative. We consider it important to take into account the possibility that dog’s milk may be the aetiological agent of CU in veterinarians.

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