AI Article Synopsis
- - The text describes cases where patients experienced phototoxic reactions from fresh fig juice, leading to striped pigmentation on the arms and patchy pigmentation on the face after sun exposure.
- - It highlights the connection between this reaction and other dermatitis conditions, specifically "Berloque dermatitis" from citrus oils and bullous meadow dermatitis from heracleum juice.
- - The text also draws parallels between the furocoumarin reactions involved in fig dermatitis and those seen in PUVA therapy, which is a treatment for skin conditions.
Article Abstract
In several patients the effect of a phototoxic reaction to the juice of fresh figs (ficus carica) was observed as a striped pigmentation on the arms (after rubbing in the fruit juice followed by exposure to the sun), or as a patchy pigmentation of the face after eating fresh figs. Reference is made to the pathogenetic identity of this furocoumarin phototoxic reaction and the clinical transition of ficus dermatitis both to "Berloque dermatitis" (from the oil of types of citrus) and to bullous meadow dermatitis (from the juice of types of heracleum). Reference is also made to the similarity of the therapeutic furocoumarin reaction in PUVA therapy.
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