ABSTRACT
In the United Kingdom, in the period 1988-1991, 528 patients with a positive patch test to tixocortol pivalate or suspected of corticosteroid allergy were tested with fluocortolone 20% pet and there was one (0.2%) positive reaction, the relevance of which was not mentioned. From January 1990 to June 2008, in Leuven, Belgium, 315 patients were diagnosed with contact allergy to/allergic contact dermatitis from corticosteroids (CSs) from routine patch testing with a baseline series including tixocortol pivalate, budesonide, hydrocortisone butyrate and prednisone caproate, patch testing with patients’ own CS preparations, and testing those with proven contact allergy to a corticosteroid or strongly suspected of CS allergy later with a series of 66 CSs, including two sex hormones.
