Diagnosis of Occupational Asthma in Flour Mills at South Cairo | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine | ||
| Article 7, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 95-103 PDF (283.89 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejcm.2018.6872 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Introduction: Occupational asthma is an international problem affecting largenumber of workers. Few studies were done on occupational asthma in Egypt focusing mainly on asthma symptoms and not on spirometric tests.Objective: The present study investigated the presence of occupational asthma (BA) among workers at flour mills of south Cairo as there was a lack of data. Methods: The participants (n=120) were recruited from flour mills at South Cairo. A questionnaire, clinical examination, chest x-ray,spirometry, bronchodilator test andpeak flow rate variabilitytest were done. Occupational asthma was diagnosed according to GINA guidelines. Results: This study showed that 25% of mills workers had asthma related to work.The asthma symptoms appearduring work which showed improvement after leaving workplace. It showed also reversibility in FEV1,PEFR as well as diurnal PEFR variability characteristics of occupational asthma. It revealed also that asthmatic workers had lower level of spirometric parameters in relation to non-asthmatic. Conclusion: Asthma questionnaire followed by ventilatory function test assessing reversibility and variability can be used for early diagnosis of occupational asthma in Egypt. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| bronchialreversibility andvariability; Flour dusts; Bronchodilator test; occupational asthma | ||
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