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Article: Irritant contact dermatitis responds to aloe vera gloves. (News: clinical digest: a weekly round-up of the latest research and scientific reports from the nursing and medical journals).(Brief Article)
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- Nursing Standard
- Article date:
- April 2, 2003
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Gloves coated in aloe vera can improve occupationally acquired dry skin and irritant contact dermatitis.
Researchers from the US and China investigated the effects of aloe vera-coated gloves in 29 people working on an assembly line who had dry, irritated skin which they attributed to occupational exposure. For 30 days the workers used one aloe vera-coated glove for eight hours while their other hand was glove free. This was followed by 30 days without gloves and a further ten days of glove use.
At baseline, dry skin was rated mild to moderate or moderate to severe. The mean time to noticeable ...