Hidden threat lurking behind the alcohol sanitizers in COVID-19 outbreak

Dermatol Ther. 2020 Jul;33(4):e13627. doi: 10.1111/dth.13627. Epub 2020 Jun 7.

Abstract

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made various challenges for communications all over the world. Nowadays hand hygiene practices with alcohol sanitizers are an unavoidable reality for many people, which cause skin dryness and flaking. The current short communication has been explained about monitoring the quality control of alcohol concentrations and hand rub formulation, which needs more attention and should consider meticulous in this crisis.

Keywords: COVID-19; alcohol concentrations; hand dermatitis.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Infective Agents, Local / pharmacology
  • Betacoronavirus*
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
  • Coronavirus Infections / transmission
  • Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control*
  • Ethanol / pharmacology*
  • Hand Hygiene / methods*
  • Humans
  • Pandemics / prevention & control*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
  • SARS-CoV-2

Substances

  • Anti-Infective Agents, Local
  • Ethanol