[Phototoxic reaction to figs].
In several patients the effect of a phototoxic reaction to the juice of fresh figs (ficus carica) was observed as a striped pigmentation on the arms (after rubbing in the fruit juice followed by exposure to the sun), or as a patchy pigmentation of the face after eating fresh figs. Reference is made to the pathogenetic identity of this furocoumarin phototoxic reaction and the clinical transition of ficus dermatitis both to "Berloque dermatitis" (from the oil of types of citrus) and to bullous meadow dermatitis (from the juice of types of heracleum). Reference is also made to the similarity of the therapeutic furocoumarin reaction in PUVA therapy.
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005638:Fruit / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011701:PUVA Therapy; D010787:Photosensitivity Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology
Phototoxische Reaktion auf Feigen.