Self-treatment with bleach by a Latino farmworker.
Skin disease is common among migrant Latino farmworkers. These workers rarely use formal health care services but commonly engage in self-treatment of their skin disease. We present a patient with dermatitis who self-treated with bleach. This patient illustrates a common practice that exacerbates skin disease and sheds light on social and cultural factors of which health care providers serving this community should be aware.
Cathcart
Shelley
S
Department of Dermatology, the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and the Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Feldman
Steven R
SR
Vallejos
Quirina M
QM
Whalley
Lara E
LE
Quandt
Sara A
SA
Cabral
Gonzalo
G
Brooks
Thanh
T
Earp
Patricia
P
Fleischer
Alan B
AB
Schulz
Mark R
MR
Arcury
Thomas A
TA
D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D003877:Dermatitis, Contact / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D017453:Dermatitis, Irritant / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003902:Detergents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D012651:Self Medication / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D012973:Sodium Hypochlorite / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
D003902:Detergents; D012973:Sodium Hypochlorite