| Disease/Syndrome |
Asthma, occupational |
|---|
| Category |
Airway Disease |
|---|
| Acute/Chronic |
Chronic |
|---|
| Synonyms |
Occupational Asthma (OA); |
|---|
| Biomedical References |
Search PubMed |
|---|
| Comments |
Immunologic asthma develops after a variable period of time during which sensitization to an agent present in the workplace takes place. Immunologic asthma can be classified as that caused by high-molecular or low-molecular weight compounds. To make the diagnosis of occupational asthma, one must first confirm the presence of airway hyperreactivity. [Sullivan, p. 218] |
|---|
| Latency/Incubation |
Months to years |
|---|
| Diagnostic |
History; Pulmonary function test; Methacholine challenge test; Specific challenge test |
|---|
| ICD-9 Code |
493.0 |
|---|
|
|
|---|
| Reference Link |
OSHA - Occupational Asthma |
|---|
| Related Information in Haz-Map |
|---|
| Symptoms/Findings |
Symptoms/Findings associated with this disease:
|
|---|
| Job Tasks |
High risk job tasks associated with this disease:
- Arc weld stainless steel
- Assemble products using cyanoacrylate glues
- Develop color photographs with compounds containing amines
- Disinfect or sterilize medical equipment
- Dye fur with compounds containing amines
- Dye or bleach hair, or use ethanolamines in beauty culture
- Formulate, mold, or cure resins to produce advanced composite materials
- Galvanize metal
- Generate bioaerosols derived from milk, eggs, or animal serum
- Generate bioaerosols of animal-derived proteins
- Generate bioaerosols of biological enzymes
- Generate bioaerosols processing seafood
- Generate flour dust
- Generate grain dust
- Generate guar gum bioaerosols
- Generate insect-derived bioaerosols
- Generate latex dust in manufacturing latex products
- Generate latex dust using latex products
- Generate mists of metalworking fluids containing ethanolamines
- Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
- Generate plant-derived bioaerosols
- Generate plastic dusts or powders (Plexiglas or polyvinyl chloride)
- Generate psyllium dust
- Grind, mix, or weigh dyes or apply dyes to textiles
- Handle flowers
- Handle laboratory animals
- Heat or machine chromium alloys
- Heat or machine cobalt alloys
- Heat plastics--polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, or polypropylene
- Inhale aspergillus in bakery, beet sugar refinery, or biotechnology plant
- Inhale bioaerosols in the home, school, or office environment
- Inhale insect allergens in fish food or fish bait
- Inhale insect allergens in the laboratory
- Inhale mite allergens while farming or handling flour or grain
- Inhale plant mold (greenhouse worker) or slime mold (microbiologist)
- Inhale Rhizopus nigricans in a coal mine
- Machine wood and inhale dust
- Make molds in foundry using MDI, furfuryl alcohol, or amine curing agents
- Manually "lay-up" reinforced polyester resins using styrene
- Manufacture cemented carbide materials or tools
- Manufacture isothiazolinones
- Manufacture pesticides containing captafol
- Manufacture rosin core solder
- Mix and apply bone adhesives
- Mix or pack pharmaceutical products
- Plate metal with chromium
- Plate metal with nickel
- Prepare fruit salad using a solution of enzymes (pectinase and glucanase)
- Prepare potatoes using metabisulfite powder
- Produce nacre buttons from mollusc shells
- Produce silk (sericulture)
- Spray chlorothalonil or tetramethrin (pesticides)
- Spray epoxy or polyurethane paint, shellac, lacquer, or varnish
- Spray polyurethane foam insulation
- Use anhydride compounds to manufacture chemical products
- Use azodicarbonamide as additive to plastics and rubber
- Use cemented carbide materials or tools
- Use chloramine-T for cleaning or disinfecting
- Use chromates or dichromates in printing
- Use chromates or dichromates in tanning
- Use dental acrylate compounds
- Use diazonium salts to manufacture photocopy paper or polymers
- Use diisocyanates to manufacture polyurethane products
- Use epoxy, isocyanate, or formaldehyde-resin adhesives, finishes, or sealants
- Use ethanolamines in cleaning products
- Use formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde to develop x-rays in darkroom
- Use methacrylates to apply artificial fingernails
- Use polyfunctional aziridine hardener in paints, varnishes, or other coatings
- Use solder containing colophony, zinc chloride, or ammonium chloride flux
- Use tetrazene to manufacture detonators
- Work as cement floorer with exposure to chromate salts
- Work in indoor pool as lifeguard or swimming instructor
- Work in potroom at aluminum smelter
|
|---|
| Agents |
Hazardous agents that cause the occupational disease:
|
|---|
|
|
