Dr Mabs Chowdhury , President, British Association of Dermatologists, Consultant Dermatologist and Cutaneous Allergy Lead  Cardiff University has kindly forwarded for the attention of BSCA members  the 15th Cutaneous Allergy Annual Update Hybrid Meeting, WEDNESDAY 29th March 2023

DERMATOLOGY ACADEMIC AFTERNOON, All Nations Centre, Cardiff

Please see the meetings section for the full programme, registration details and speaker bios.

1-2pm   LUNCH and Pharmaceutical exhibition for F2F attendees

2-5pm F2F and Hybrid Meeting

Save the date: 8-10/5/23

Plans are in progress to hold the first face-to-face training course in contact dermatitis since the COVID pandemic in Manchester.

Further details in due course

Save the date: British Society of Cutaneous Allergy Update Course Friday 29th to Saturday 30th September 2023.

Venue and Program TBC.

Registration details pending

Dr Deirdre Buckley and her husband, Dr William Phillips

Dr Mabs Chowdhury, Dr Deirdre Buckley and Dr Tanya Bleiker (more…)

The BSCA would like to congratulate the following for their awards for best original communication and best poster presentation.

Our 2022 winners:

Best SpR presentation of an original communication:

Sophie Rolls

CD-01: The ‘extended’ facial series series audit: recommendation to include shellac and sodium benzoate in the British Society of Cutaneous Allergy Facial Series

Best poster presentation 2022:

Lisa Kiely

CD13: Determining the spectral response of positive patch test results with the view of developing a multispectral imaging camera to improve the accuracy of virtual patch testing

Many congratulations!

The following changes were accepted to the Constitution at the BSCA  BAD AGM 5th July 2022:

Constitution Point 3:

 ” There will be a Committee consisting of a President, Committee Secretary, Meetings Secretary, Treasurer, Membership and Website Secretary” 

This replaces: 

“There will be a Committee consisting of a President, Committee Secretary, Meetings Secretary, Treasurer”

Membership: Point 9

“Prospective applicants for membership of the society must be proposed by 2 individuals. One a member of the British Society of Cutaneous Allergy who is on the Dermatology specialist register,  and the other a BAD Ordinary Member. The application must be ratified by the President and the Membership secretary before being approved by the committee who will take into account the training and competency of the individual.”

1. This replaces:
2. “Prospective applicants for membership of the society must be proposed by 2 members of the British Society of Cutaneous Allergy who are on the Dermatology specialist register. The application must be approved by the committee who will take into account the training and competency of the individual”

Dear BSCA members,

We have two proposals to change the BSCA constitution, to be voted for at the AGM in July:

Proposal one

The roles and time required to undertake them have increased significantly over the last decade. The committee proposes splitting the previous treasurer and membership and now website responsibilities into two:

“There will be a Committee consisting of a President, Committee Secretary, Meetings Secretary, Treasurer”

Is changed to:

“There will be a Committee consisting of a President, Committee Secretary, Meetings Secretary, Treasurer, Membership and Website Secretary”

Proposal two

The BSCA regularly receives high quality applications to join the BSCA but due to the current constitutional rules they have had to be declined. The President’s aim is to increase membership, increase accessibility to BSCA resources for nurses and SAS doctors and increase support for centres trying to establish or improve patch test services. Applicants report that it can be difficult to find 2 members of the BSCA to propose them.  

It is proposed an  amendment be made to the constitution.

“Prospective applicants for membership of the society must be proposed by 2 members of the British Society of Cutaneous Allergy who are on the Dermatology specialist register. The application must be approved by the committee who will take into account the training and competency of the individual.”

Is changed to

“Prospective applicants for membership of the society must be proposed by 2 individuals. One a member of the British Society of Cutaneous Allergy who is on the Dermatology specialist register,  and the other a BAD Ordinary Member. The application must be ratified by the President and the Membership secretary before being approved by the committee who will take into account the training and competency of the individual.”

Notes

• Alterations of the constitution can only be at an Annual General Meeting.
• Notice of the proposals above by Dr G A Johnston and duly seconded by Dr DA Buckley have been sent to the Committee Secretary Dr NJ Stone two months before the meeting and will be circulated with the notice of that meeting one month before the meeting.
• For adoption a two-thirds majority of those voting will be necessary.

 Both will be voted for at the AGM in July.

The BSCA has two vacancies on the BSCA committee – one for the wider Oxford area and one for the Bristol/South West of England area. Please email Graham Johnston graham.johnston@uhl-tr.nhs.uk before the end of May if you are interested.

Dear all

Detailed minutes from the recent committee meeting will be published on the website.

1) Dates for diaries
BSCA Update meeting – 7th May 2021 combined with the Dowling club meeting, online.
BAD Annual Meeting 6-8 July 2021 (BSCA Meeting Tuesday 6th July 2021), online.
ESCD Congress – 8th-10th June 2022, Amsterdam.

2) Series updates
Our last snippet detailed the addition of tree moss absolute (Evernia furfuracea), hydroxyethyl methacrylate (2-HEMA), linalool hydroperoxide 1% & 0.5% pet, limonene hydroperoxide 0.3% & 0.2% pet and finally benzisothiazolinone (BIT) 0.1% pet and octylisothiazolinone (OIT) 0.1% pet to the British standard series. Further new additions to the standard series:

Decyl glucoside 5% pet. & Lauryl glucoside 3% pet
Alkyl glucosides are a family of mild non-ionic surfactants (1). They are completely biodegradable and considered less irritant and less allergenic than anionic surfactants and have therefore regained favour in recent years (1,2).

They have cleaning, foaming and emulsifying properties. They are found in rinse-off products such as shower gels, shampoos, soaps, cleansers and hair dyes, and in leave-on cosmetics such as sunscreens, fragrances, tanning products, emollients, deodorants and baby products including wipes.

There has been a steady increase in the frequency of sensitization since the first described case in 2003, with alkyl glucosides named “Allergen of the Year” in 2017 by the American Contact Dermatitis Society (2). Allergic Contact Dermatitis (ACD) induced by alkyl glucosides is known to be more common in patients with a history of atopy (2).

Decyl glucoside is the most common alkyl glucoside causing ACD. Patch testing to multiple glucosides is recommended, where allergy is suspected, as concomitant reactions with other alkyl glucosides cannot be relied upon to detect sensitisation (1). There have been multiple reports of ACD caused by decyl glucoside in the sunscreen ingredient Tinosorb M (organic UV filter) (2). Alkyl glucosides have also been identified as culprit allergens in wound dressings (2).

Soriano and colleagues investigated the frequency of contact allergy to decyl glucoside and lauryl glucoside in consecutive patients in the UK and Ireland and presented relatively high positive patch tests to these glucosides (1.6% & 1.8% respectively) along with frequent irritant reactions (2.2% & 2.0% respectively) (Data presented at the BAD annual meeting 2020). Concomitant reactions between the two occurred in less than half of patients (3).

3) Winners of the BSCA presentation and poster awards from the virtual BAD annual 2020 meeting:

(a) Presentation Joint Winner: Dr S. Arianayagam. Updating the British Association of Cutaneous Allergy medicament series: just what the doctor ordered (£100)

(b) Presentation Joint Winner: Dr S. Morrow. Out with the old and in with the new? Getting the British Society for Cutaneous Allergy corticosteroid series up to scratch (£100)

(c) Poster Winner: Dr Y. Khan. Immediate and delayed hypersensitivity reaction to para-phenylenediamine (£50)

References
(1) Bhoyrul B, Solman L, Kirk S, Orton D, Wilkinson M. Patch testing with alkyl glucosides: Concomitant reactions are common but not ubiquitous. Contact Dermatitis. 2019;80:286-290.
(2) Monteiro A, Paulino M, Maquina A, Amaro C, Viana I. Allergic contact dermatitis to decyl glucoside: Still an important allergen in Tinosorb M. Contact Dermatitis.2020;82:126-128.
(3) LF Soriano, CG Bertram, MMU Chowdhury, P Cousen, P Divekar, SA Ghaffar, C Green, A Havelin, CR Holden, GA Johnston, AA Mughal, E Nic Dhonncha, RA Sabroe, NM Stone, DA Thompson, M Wilkinson, DA Buckley. Prevalence of allergic contact dermatitis to decyl and lauryl glucoside in the UK and Ireland. Br J Dermatol. 2020 Oct 14. doi: 10.1111/bjd.19603. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33090453.



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