Brown crusts on infant owing to contact dermatitis associated with ethanol disinfection.
Yuki MatsuhisaTsuneaki KenzakaHideo HiroseTadao GotohPublished in: Journal of general and family medicine (2023)
A 2-year-old girl developed dermatitis with atypical brown crusts after ethanol disinfection. Since many Oriental people have genetically reduced acetaldehyde dehydrogenase type 2 (ALDH2) activity, ethanol disinfection causes acetaldehyde to accumulate in the skin, resulting in dermatitis.