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Occupational Asthma from swimming pools

I have had two acute asthma attacks requiring short courses of oral prednisolone; both of these exacerbations occurred within a day or two of swimming at the local leisure centre, where the ambient air smelt strongly of chlorine. The Centre manager assured me that the pool water was chlorinated ...

Occupational Asthma, Specialist, 2/20/2006, 2/20/2006,

Nebulising metal salts in asthmatics

We are seeing a number of workers exposed (often indirectly) to the fumes generated when zinc coated steel (zintec) is welded in the manufacture of car bodies. Has anybody else seen this? We find they have a sputum neutrophilia rather than eosinophilia, and challenge testing with nebulised zinc ...

Occupational Asthma, Specialist, 2/20/2006, 2/20/2006,

Delayed hypersensitivity airway inflammation

Immediate responses to skin prick tests are often used as evidence of specific sensitisation to occupationally encountered agents implying this is the causal mechanism of airway disease. However when assessing occupational dermatoses, patch testing is considered far more useful indicating delaye ...

Occupational Asthma, Specialist, 2/20/2006, 2/20/2006,

Respiratory problems from lanoline

Ian Coutts has a farmer who sprays cows udders with a lanoline mixture before milking. Has anybody seen any respiratory problems with lanoline?

Occupational Asthma, Specialist, 2/20/2006, 2/20/2006,

UK state industrial injury benefit for Chlorine and Hydrochloric Acid gasses

I am presently applying for UK state industrial injury benefit on behalf of myself and a number of my co-workers at the same plant. We suffer from asthma which presented around the same time and with the same exposure levels (small exposures every few days with sporadic high doses). We all exhi ...