Relationship between chemical industrial environment and allergic skin diseases

  • Shaohua Fu Clinical Laboratory, Ningbo Zhenhai People’s Hospital (Ningbo No.7 Hospital), Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China
  • Minli Gong Clinical Laboratory, Ningbo Zhenhai People’s Hospital (Ningbo No.7 Hospital), Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China
  • Guisheng Xing Department of Medical, Ningbo Zhenhai People’s Hospital (Ningbo No.7 Hospital), Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8271-3045
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18388/abp.2020_6797

Abstract

Objective: This study is an exploration of the relationship between chemical industrial environment and allergic skin diseases. Methods: In this retrospective analysis, 200 patients with allergic skin diseases who worked or lived in a chemical industrial zone and were admitted in our hospital between January 2018 and January 2020 were enrolled as Group A. Besides, 500 patients with allergic skin disease who lived in Zhenhai New District, five kilometers away from the chemical radiation zone, were selected as Group B. The specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels were determined by Western blotting. The allergen positivity, as well as allergen positivity between different age, sex and body mass index (BMI) were compared between the two groups. The positive food-specific allergen IgE antibody (sIgE) and positive inhalational sIgE were compared between the two groups. Results: The positive rate of total IgE and inhalational sIgE in Group A was higher than that in Group B (P<0.05), while there was no significant difference in positive rate in food sIgE between the two groups (P>0.05). In Group A, the differences in positive rates of total IgE, food-induced sIgE and inhalational sIgE were not significant between patients with different ages, sexes and BMI (P>0.05). There was no significant difference between the two groups in sIgE positive rates of wheat, mango, soybean/peanut/cashew nut combination, limb/beef combination, crab/shrimp/fish combination, milk and egg white (P>0.05). The positive rates of inhalational sIgE in tree combination and dust mites/household dust mites combination in Group A were higher than those in Group B (P<0.05), but had no significant difference between the two groups in the positive rates of inhalational sIgE in Humulus japonicus, mold combination 1, cockroach, cat/dog hair combination, and ragweed/artemisia combination (P>0.05). Conclusion: Chemical industrial environment is closely associated with allergic dermatosis, and the positive rate of total IgE and inhalational sIgE increases significantly in patients living there.

Published
2023-12-03
Issue
Vol. 70 No. 4 (2023)
Section
Articles

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