photodermatitis
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Photodermatitis, sometimes referred to as sun poisoning or photoallergy, is a form of allergic dermatitis in which the allergen is activated by light to sensitize the allergic response, and to cause a rash or other systemic effects on subsequent exposure. The second and subsequent exposures produce photoallergic skin conditions which are often eczematous. It is distinct from sunburn.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Sun poisoning
- Medical condition.synonyms
- Sun poisoning, photoallergy
- Medical condition.image
- Photodermatitis.jpg
- Medical condition.caption
- A case of photodermatitis as a result of lemons
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Research
15,882 papers- Photodermatitis for the Allergist.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2017
- Perindopril-induced lichenoid photodermatitis.Photodermatology, photoimmunology & photomedicine · 2020
- [Photodermatitis].Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke · 1970
- Photodermatitis caused by torasemide.Contact dermatitis · 2021
- Photodermatitis in a woman with infiltrating intraductal breast carcinoma: An uncommon adverse cutaneous drug reaction of paclitaxel revisited.Indian journal of pharmacology · 2020
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Signs and symptoms
- Causes
- Prevention
- See also
- References
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Photodermatitis, sometimes referred to as sun poisoning or photoallergy, is a form of allergic dermatitis in which the allergen is activated by light to sensitize the allergic response, and to cause a rash or other systemic effects on subsequent exposure. The second and subsequent exposures produce photoallergic skin conditions which are often eczematous. It is distinct from sunburn.
Some variants are caused by topical exposure, while others are caused by medications, and still others are caused by medical conditions which generate the allergen precursors in the body.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “photodermatitis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.