Allergic acrylic resins

Frequent skin contact with paints and coating materials can cause skin disorders, particularly on the hands, in painters and coaters. The lipid-solubilizing properties of the organic solvents may cause or at least promote contact eczema. In particular, paints based on reactive resins (e.g., epoxy and polyester resins) may cause allergic skin disorders. Skin-sensitizing substances include residual monomers and reactive diluents (e.g., acrylates and epoxides) and paint additives (e.g., acid anhydrides. 

Contact sensitizers from a patient s own materials, such as formaldehyde, isothiazolinones, nickel, chromium, cobalt, colophony (in the form of resin acids), epoxy resin oligomers, reactive diluents, acrylates, methacrylates, polyamines and di-isocyanates, can be analyzed. In fact, any product can be analyzed, but it is not a routine task for laboratories and may be very expensive. There are two main reasons for chemical analyses. First, on patch testing, the patient is found to be allergic to a specific chemical, and the causative product(s) are analyzed for the chemical. Second, the patient s own material has caused an allergic test reaction, but MSDS or other information from the manufacturer did not reveal the causative chemical. In this case, it may be reasonable to analyze the material... 

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Nearly all available plastics are applied in order to prevent further corrosion of stones. Application methods include coating, low pressure or vacuum. Irritant or allergic dermatitis is possible. Epoxy resins and acrylates are the most common plastics causing allergic dermatitis, including airborne dermatitis [1, 2]. Polyester plastics are also used, but rarely produce sensitisation however, additives may cause allergy... 

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