<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This report describes two patients who had developed asthma after working as automobile painters with isocyanate-based aerosol paint for two years or over. In both patients asthma was confirmed using the standard diagnostic procedure. One of the subjects was atopic. One was ex-smoker and the other had never smoked. Neither had a family history of asthma. The symptoms occurred after workplace exposure lasting two years in one patient and three in the other. As both reported work-relatedness of the symptoms, they underwent serial peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) measurement and bronchoprovocation testing. Significant work-related changes in PEFR diurnal variations and in non-specific bronchial hyperresponsiveness (NSBH) were observed in one patient, suggesting allergic occupational asthma (OA), while the other patient was diagnosed work-exacerbated asthma (WEA). Our data confirm that spray painting is an occupation with increased risk of respiratory impairment and asthma.</p></abstract>

This report describes two patients who had developed asthma after working as automobile painters with isocyanate-based aerosol paint for two years or over. In both patients asthma was confirmed using the standard diagnostic procedure. One of the subjects was atopic. One was ex-smoker and the other had never smoked. Neither had a family history of asthma. The symptoms occurred after workplace exposure lasting two years in one patient and three in the other. As both reported work-relatedness of the symptoms, they underwent serial peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) measurement and bronchoprovocation testing. Significant work-related changes in PEFR diurnal variations and in non-specific bronchial hyperresponsiveness (NSBH) were observed in one patient, suggesting allergic occupational asthma (OA), while the other patient was diagnosed work-exacerbated asthma (WEA). Our data confirm that spray painting is an occupation with increased risk of respiratory impairment and asthma.

Work-Related Asthma in Automobile Spray Painters: Two Case Reports

Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Skopje, Macedonia

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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This report describes two patients who had developed asthma after working as automobile painters with isocyanate-based aerosol paint for two years or over. In...

Work-Related Asthma in Automobile Spray Painters: Two Case Reports

Published Online: Jun 23, 2008

Page range: 117 - 125

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/10004-1254-59-2008-1858

Keywords
bronhoprovokacijski test, izocijanati, respiratorne tegobe, vršni ekspiratorni protok

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Work-Related Asthma in Automobile Spray Painters: Two Case Reports

Published Online: Jun 23, 2008

Page range: 117 - 125

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/10004-1254-59-2008-1858

Keywordsbronhoprovokacijski test, izocijanati, respiratorne tegobe, vršni ekspiratorni protok

This content is open access.

Keywords
bronhoprovokacijski test, izocijanati, respiratorne tegobe, vršni ekspiratorni protok