Occupational Asthma Reference
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Janigan DT, Kilp T, Michael R, McCleave JJ.,
Bronchiolitis obliterans in a man who used his wood-burning stove to burn synthetic construction materials.,
Can Med Assoc J,
1997;156:1171-1173,
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Keywords: bronchiolitis obliterans, case report, histology, styrene, Canada
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Abstract
This paper reports a case of cough, dyspnea, and fever arising 4 hours after burning construction materials including polystyrene insulation (which dissociates to styrene at lower temperatures than wood decomposes) and wood particle-board paneling in an open wood-burning stove. He presented after 11 days and had an open lung biopsy supporting BO. The presumed exposures were nitrogen oxides from the particle board binders, styrene, and bromine. The authors make an unsupported statement that styrene causes bronchial epithelial necrosis. Obviously they don’t claim to know the cause other than toxic inhalation, but people burn particle board all the time.
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