Skin disease is common among migrant Latino farmworkers. These workers rarely use formal health care services but commonly engage in self-treatment of their skin disease. We present a patient with dermatitis who self-treated with bleach. This patient illustrates a common practice that exacerbates skin disease and sheds light on social and cultural factors of which health care providers serving this community should be aware.
Department of Dermatology, the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and the Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
