Prognosis of occupational asthma due to detergent enzymes

Three years after leaving work with occupational asthma half were still unemployed, 86% less symptomatic and a half still taking treatment for asthma. The half life for specific IgE to the detergent enzymes was 20-21 months. The study followed up 35/45 workers with occupational asthma from a single outbreak giving added validity to the results

References

	Brant A, Zekveld C, Welch J, Jones, M Newman Taylor AJ, Cullinan P, The prognosis of occupational asthma due to detergent enzymes: clinical, immunological and employment outcomes, J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2006;36:483-488,

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