I had an exposure to my hands of Alkyl Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium
Chloride almost a year ago. The skin appears to be damaged. If I bend
my fingertips the tops of them look chewed up. The normally yellow
callus that covered my hands is gone, and there are a lot of fine lines
and wrinkles. The lines before this occured have now become deeper it
appears. I cut the outside of my hand on the refrigerator recently,
and what normally would have healed normally, has left a pink scar. I
should also mention that the skin on my wrists and some ways up my arms
where the chemical must have flowed are also wrinkled and damaged. I
didn't irrigate the chemical out of my hands, so the ph of my skin was
probably off for months, just guessing.
The question is, have I permanently burned off layers of skin from
hands or is the skin just damaged and will take some time to heal
completely?
Woodsman - 06 Dec 2005 18:01 GMT
I should mention that there were no blisters following the injury. The
immediete damage was red skin. If you touched the fingertips for
example, it would leave an indentation for some time.