A New Wave of Disease - Cleaners Asthma

Workers exposed to chlorine agents have been diagnosed with respiratory impairments. A recent study has reported that "suggest that bleach inhalation at a concentration of 0.4 ppm—a concentration below 8-hr permissible occupational exposure level—brings about a substantial decrease in FEV1 in subjects."

"Included in the study were thirteen cleaning employees with work-related asthma-like symptoms, three asthmatic controls and three atopic subjects without bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) who had no exposure to cleaning products. The study protocol consisted of a methacholine test, sputum induction and fraction of exhaled nitric oxide measurement (FENO) both at baseline and 24 hr after a 1-hr inhalation challenge with either placebo or bleach at a concentration of 0.4 ppm of chlorine."

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Lung Cancer Risk High Despite Absence of Asbestosis Diagnosis

Asbestos workers continue to have a higher risk for lung cancer even if asbestos findings are not present on x-ray. A recent report in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine concludes, "Workers from an Ontario asbestos-cement factory who did not have radiographic asbestosis at 20 or 25 years from first exposure to asbestos continued to have an increased risk of death from lung cancer during an additional 12 years of follow-up." 


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