A health Fitness & Healthy Foods coach has shared his personal experience online as a chef,
He wrote:
Work related dermatitis is possibly the worst thing that can happen to someone who works with their hands, and it's totally unavoidable.
Other professions that suffer with it are hairdressers, plasterers and barkeepers.
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Generally, if your hands are going from wet to dry, or are coming into contact with chemicals throughout your working day, you're at risk. The conditions strip the oils from your skin, your skin gets dry, the skin cannot repair itself fast enough and sores start to appear that spread over the hands. There is no cure, doctors can prescribe steroid creams but they can be very hit and miss.
Back in 2007 I had to quit the chef life for good, dermatitis was one of the main reasons I left the profession.
