What is ment by defatting of tissue?

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I recently worked in a job where I was in constant contact with brake cleaner and its vapors. Well during this position, I had a problem with my hands cracking horribly bad, bleeding, turning red, puffy, and hurting. I told my boss. He told me it was the hand soap. I just had to find one that didn’t do the problem. I never had any problems with hand soaps before in the industry. Not like this. But I do suspect it was possibly because the brake cleaner.
After a while they stopped braking out. However, the backs of my hands, especially knuckle area’s do not have the same feel and texture that they once had prior to this job.
I read the mds for the cleaner I was using. It said’s it causes “defatting of tissue” and “dermatitis”. What are these? Especially the defatting of tissue. What does it look like? Is it long term or permanent? Is their a way to test for this? How do I know I have these issues?
I am a little concerned about my constant exposure to this brake clean. They recently terminated my position with a bogus reason but I did noticed that we also changed brake clean formulas as well just recently. We were told it was because they couldn’t get it no more. But I think this wasn’t the case.
I also noticed my hands tend to tremble now as well. Being a photographer, this worries me. Especially since I invested a lot of time and money to get into it professionally.
I also been getting a lot of headaches as well.
http://www.gunk.com/msds/M715.pdf

Answer 1

Defatting is mostly just what it sounds like: fats are removed or broken down in your skin, robbing it of the protection your natural body oils normally provide. This can make it easier for any number of other chemicals to be absorbed through the skin, so your difficulties may be more complex than they at first seem. Any defatting effects that have already occurred should almost certainly be entirely gone by the time you form new layers of skin... but this says nothing about whatever else may have happened while your skin was defatted.

Another thing that concerns me is that a lot of chemicals prone to defatting seem also to be prone to cause lung fibrosis after long exposure to aerosolized particles. Your lungs try to protect themselves by growing extra connective tissue which also unfortunately gets in the way of normal respiration. This could explain your headaches and perhaps some of your other symptoms.

But really the best bet is to see some kind of physician. Drop by a free clinic if you don't have any insurance and they can at least give you a once-over and see if there's anything major wrong with you. Better safe than sorry, after all!

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