Not All Fun and Games: A Case Report of Contact Dermatitis Related to Slime and Play-Doh

Slime and Play-Doh have been gaining popularity among adolescents and preteens. Both are gooey, viscoelastic substances that can be morphed and molded into virtually anything imaginable. Slime can be made from several household products including school glue and borax, which have both been linked to...

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Autores principales: Brazen, Brett C, Wehausen, Brooke, Usmani, Andleeb A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7538031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33042709
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10272
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description Slime and Play-Doh have been gaining popularity among adolescents and preteens. Both are gooey, viscoelastic substances that can be morphed and molded into virtually anything imaginable. Slime can be made from several household products including school glue and borax, which have both been linked to cases of irritant and allergic contact dermatitis, conditions that historically involve activation of many immune-regulatory cells such as Langerhans' cells and T cells. We review the rising incidence of contact dermatitis related to Slime and Play-Doh, pathogenesis, and hallmark findings, along with several treatment options to help clinicians expediently diagnose and treat the condition.
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spelling pubmed-75380312020-10-09 Not All Fun and Games: A Case Report of Contact Dermatitis Related to Slime and Play-Doh Brazen, Brett C Wehausen, Brooke Usmani, Andleeb A Cureus Dermatology Slime and Play-Doh have been gaining popularity among adolescents and preteens. Both are gooey, viscoelastic substances that can be morphed and molded into virtually anything imaginable. Slime can be made from several household products including school glue and borax, which have both been linked to cases of irritant and allergic contact dermatitis, conditions that historically involve activation of many immune-regulatory cells such as Langerhans' cells and T cells. We review the rising incidence of contact dermatitis related to Slime and Play-Doh, pathogenesis, and hallmark findings, along with several treatment options to help clinicians expediently diagnose and treat the condition. Cureus 2020-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7538031/ /pubmed/33042709 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10272 Text en Copyright © 2020, Brazen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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