Existing guidelines advise adolescents with asthma and allergies against high-risk occupations. The aim of the current authors' analyses was to investigate the resulting self-selection in a prospective cohort study. The participants of Phase II of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood in Germany (aged 9-11 yrs at baseline) were re-contacted after 7 yrs (response rate was ...

Allergic disease is a serious occupational health concern for individuals who have contact with laboratory animals. The principal respiratory symptoms include allergic rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma. Urticaria (" hives") is the most common skin manifestation. The overall prevalence of allergic disease among laboratory animal handlers is about 23%, and respiratory allergy is much more comm...

The occurrence of immediate skin reactions such as urticaria and angioedema to textiles is extremely rare. The majority of the reported cases occurred after occupational exposure to chemicals, e.g. to reactive dyes or formaldehyde. More common are respiratory symptoms including asthma and rhinitis [1] and contact dermatitis [2, 3], again frequently in occupational settings. However, there may b...

Hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) is responsible for many incidents of occupational toxic exposure, especially in the petroleum industry. The clinical effects of H(2)S depend on its concentration and the duration of exposure. H(2)S is immediately fatal when concentrations are over 500-1000 parts per million (ppm) but exposure to lower concentrations, such as 10-500 ppm, can cause various respiratory sym...

Greenhouse operations are an important sector of the horticulture industry, also known as the Green Industry, accounting for nearly 2 million US jobs and about $148 billion in output. It is a work environment that can result in increased exposure to respiratory hazards because of its fundamentally enclosed nature. In addition, high concentrations of bioaerosols may be aerosolized by work activi...

Allergic rhinitis is a common inflammatory condition affecting upper airways, nose, and eyes. Allergic rhinitis is a global health problem and is increasing in prevalence. Allergic rhinitis patients have often comorbidities asthma being one of the most common. Up to 40% of patients with allergic rhinitis have asthma and at least as many as 80% of asthma patients experience symptoms of allergic ...

BACKGROUND Chronic bronchitis (CB) has been related to poor outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). From a clinical standpoint, we have shown that subjects with CB in a group with moderate to severe airflow obstruction were younger, more likely to be current smokers, male, Caucasian, had worse health related quality of life, more dyspnea, and increased exacerbation history com...

Although for therapeutic reasons it has become convenient to consider asthma as a single disease entity, this clearly is not the case, with many variants occurring. From a clinical standpoint, a minimal subdivision includes atopic asthma, cough variant asthma, brittle asthma, intrinsic asthma, occupational nonIgE dependent asthma, and aspirin intolerant asthma (AIA). This last variant constitut...