Occupational Asthma Reference
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Baur X, Chen Z, Hurter T,
Asthma and rhinoconjunctivitis caused by castor bean dust,
Pneumologie,
1998;52:539-540,
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Keywords: castor bean, oa, cr, rhinitis, agriculture, shopwork
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Abstract
A 57 years old trader of agricultural goods with chronic asthma had attended our medical department for diagnosis and therapy. Since more than 35 years the patient had always experienced work-related asthma episode and rhinoconjunctivities when he worked in workplace where castor-bean oil cake as fertilizer was sold. With the intensive contact with castor-bean containing goods beginning about eight years ago, his asthma attack had become chronic. The allergological diagnosis confirmed that he had high-degree type I-allergy to castor-bean allergens
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