Contact dermatitis in children.

It is generally admitted that contact dermatitis seldom appears in children. Eighty-seven cases, however, have been diagnosed at the Department of Allergology of the Dermatological Clinic in Strasbourg in the past 10 years (1969-1978). No element of atopic diathesis could be found in any of them. We have reviewed the cases with a positive patch test to try to derive both theoretical and practical conclusions.