An adolescent girl with blond hair, her family, and classmates noted that her hair was progressively turning green. Initially the green color was thought to be secondary to chlorine from the local swimming pool. This was not the real cause. The chlorotrichosis was actually caused by an excessive amount of dissolved copper from copper pipes in the home plumbing system. Copper had leached from the plumbing and accumulated in the pipes because the rented house had been vacant for many months. Risk factors for chlorotrichosis include light-colored hair, copper plumbing, long periods when the water was not thoroughly flushed out of the copper pipes, and frequent shampooing.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 October 2026.
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#22,316,996
of 32,285,140 outputs
Outputs from Pediatric Dermatology
#1,730
of 2,925 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#167,041
of 262,794 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Pediatric Dermatology
#10
of 21 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,285,140 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 29th percentile – i.e., 29% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,925 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.6. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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