Contact sensitization to diazolidinyl urea: report of 3 cases.

The article discusses contact sensitization to diazolidinyl urea. Imidazolidinyl urea is a heterocyclic substituted urea. It is used as industrial materials as well as in a wide variety of water containing consumer products such as cosmetics. The author presents information on 3 studies, firstly, a 65 year old housewife who had a 12 year history of eczema of hands, limbs and neck, a 35 year old barmaid presented with a two month old history of dermatitis on her hands and eyelids and thirdly, a 69 year old housewife had a 4 month history of subacute eczema on her face.