What is ment by defatting o..

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鈥檛 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 it causes 鈥渄efatting of tissue鈥?and 鈥渄ermatitis鈥? 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鈥檛 get it no more. But I think this wasn鈥檛 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