Red eccrine chromhidrosis with review of literature

Ashok Kumar Jaiswal, Shilpashree P Ravikiran, Prasoon Kumar Roy, Ashok Kumar Jaiswal, Shilpashree P Ravikiran, Prasoon Kumar Roy

Indian Journal of Dermatology 2017 62(6):675-675

A 22-year-old male presented with reddish discoloration of the vest following perspiration for 6 months. He was a habituated consumer of cranberry juice. The peak absorption on spectrophotometric analysis of the extracted sweat coincided approximately with the peak absorption of diluted distillate of the juice. A diagnosis of eccrine chromhidrosis, probably due to the coloring agents in the juice, was considered. This rare case report emphasizes the possible side effect of the various coloring agents used as food additives.