ICD-10-CM › L00-L99 › L20-L30 › L24 Irritant contact dermatitis › L24.6
Irritant contact dermatitis due to food in contact with skin
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Irritant contact dermatitis due to food in contact with skin
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from L24 Irritant contact dermatitis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- allergy NOS (T78.40)
- contact dermatitis NOS (L25.9)
- dermatitis NOS (L30.9)
Excludes2 - not included here
- allergic contact dermatitis (L23.-)
- dermatitis due to substances taken internally (L27.-)
- dermatitis of eyelid (H01.1-)
- diaper dermatitis (L22)
- eczema of external ear (H60.5-)
- perioral dermatitis (L71.0)
- radiation-related disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L55-L59)
Inherited from the L20-L30 section Dermatitis and eczema (L20-L30)
Excludes2 - not included here
- chronic (childhood) granulomatous disease (D71-)
- dermatitis gangrenosa (L08.0)
- dermatitis herpetiformis (L13.0)
- dry skin dermatitis (L85.3)
- factitial dermatitis (L98.1)
- stasis dermatitis (I87.2)
Note
- In this block the terms dermatitis and eczema are used synonymously and interchangeably.
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Eczema > contact
- Dermatitis > irritant
- Dermatosis > occupational
- Dermatitis > contact > irritant > due to > food in contact with skin
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| L24.0 | Irritant contact dermatitis due to detergents | Valid |
| L24.1 | Irritant contact dermatitis due to oils and greases | Valid |
| L24.2 | Irritant contact dermatitis due to solvents | Valid |
| L24.3 | Irritant contact dermatitis due to cosmetics | Valid |
| L24.4 | Irritant contact dermatitis due to drugs in contact with skin | Valid |
| L24.5 | Irritant contact dermatitis due to other chemical products | Valid |
| L24.7 | Irritant contact dermatitis due to plants, except food | Valid |
| L24.8 | Irritant contact dermatitis due to other agents | Not billable |
| L24.9 | Irritant contact dermatitis, unspecified cause | Valid |
| L24.A | Irritant contact dermatitis due to friction or contact with body fluids | Not billable |
| L24.B | Irritant contact dermatitis related to stoma or fistula | Not billable |