Department of Dermatology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.
Contact Dermatitis. 2010 Oct;63(4):187-91. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2010.01712.x.
In groups of patients with formaldehyde allergy, many have positive patch tests to quaternium-15. Conversely, of patients allergic to quaternium-15, over half also react to formaldehyde.
To test our hypothesis that patients with stronger patch test reactions to formaldehyde are more likely to react to quaternium-15, attesting to the aetiological role for formaldehyde in such co-reactivity.
Retrospective analysis of all patients patch tested with formaldehyde and quaternium-15 in the European baseline series between 1994 and 2009 (TRUE test).
In a group of 86 patients allergic to formaldehyde, 73% co-reacted to quaternium-15; in the subgroup of 70 women, the percentage was 83. In both groups, more reactions were observed to quaternium-15 in the patients with a ++ reaction compared to the patients with a + reaction to formaldehyde. Conversely, stronger reactions to quaternium-15 were significantly more often associated with formaldehyde sensitivity in a group of 107 patients reacting to quaternium-15 and a subgroup of 88 women. In men, such effects were not observed and only 5 of 16 (31%) men allergic to formaldehyde also reacted to quaternium-15.
In women, but not in men, stronger reactions to formaldehyde lead to more positive quaternium-15 patch tests.
在 Formaldehyde 过敏的患者群体中,许多人对 Quaternium-15 的斑贴试验呈阳性。相反,对 Quaternium-15 过敏的患者中,超过一半也对 Formaldehyde 有反应。
检验我们的假设,即对 Formaldehyde 斑贴试验反应较强的患者更有可能对 Quaternium-15 产生反应,这证明了 Formaldehyde 在这种共同反应中的病因作用。
对 1994 年至 2009 年期间在欧洲基本系列中接受 Formaldehyde 和 Quaternium-15 斑贴试验的所有患者进行回顾性分析(TRUE 试验)。
在 86 名对 Formaldehyde 过敏的患者中,有 73%的患者出现了共同反应;在 70 名女性患者的亚组中,这一比例为 83%。在这两个组中,与对 Formaldehyde 呈 + 反应的患者相比,对 ++ 反应的患者对 Quaternium-15 的反应更多。相反,在对 Quaternium-15 有反应的 107 名患者和对 88 名女性的亚组中,对 Quaternium-15 有更强反应的患者更常与 Formaldehyde 敏感性相关。在男性中,没有观察到这种影响,只有 16 名对 Formaldehyde 过敏的男性中的 5 名(31%)也对 Quaternium-15 有反应。
在女性中,但不是在男性中,对 Formaldehyde 的反应越强,导致 Quaternium-15 斑贴试验阳性的可能性越大。