Airborne contact dermatitis to drugs.

Contact dermatitis is defined as ‘‘airborne’’ when the causative factor is present in the environment and may determine irritative or allergic skin reactions. It is often work-related. In this review of the literature, we focus our attention on airborne contact dermatitis due to pharmaceutical compounds. Contact reactions to medications, often occupation-related, occur mainly in two exposed groups: employees of pharmaceutical industries involved in the production of the drugs and healthcare workers who use the drugs for therapeutic aims. © 2011 SEICAP. Published by Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.