[Disinfectants in health service institutions and frequency of their use].

On the basis of information obtained from sanitary and epidemiological stations places all over the country and from hospitals of the Lodz region it was found that about 60 types of disinfectants are now under use in Poland. The most frequent ones are: lysoformine, chloramine, aldesan, virkon, hypochloride, septil R, cidex, lysol, denatured alcohol, secuspet, aerodesine 2000, desoform, iodoseptane. Some of them contain well known allergenic factors (glutaraldehyde, benzalkonium, hydroquinone, phenol). Bearing in mind an increasing incidence of occupational skin diseases among health service workers it is postulated to continue studies of allergenic properties of disinfectants.