Catalog

Cutaneous reactions to food mites

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Link to WHO Definition

Cutaneous reactions to food mites – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1376997268

Reactions caused by mites which infest stored food products such as grains, flour, nuts and dried fruits. The eruptions provoked by such mites generally consist of multiple intensely pruritic papules or papulovesicles on exposed skin, particularly the head and neck.