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Occupational laryngitis caused by formaldehyde: A case report

✍ Scribed by Pekka Roto; Eeva Sala

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
270 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0271-3586

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✦ Synopsis

Formaldehyde is cominonly accepted to be mi allergen mid irritant. However, specififically diagnosed occuputional respiratory clisenses caiisecl by formaldehyde are relntive1.y rare. Occuptrtional lanngiris NYIS ditigmsed in a 47-year-old dnip,foreman. He hod been exposed jhr 9 vecirs to ,formaldehyde emitted ,froin a milk-packing moi-hitic. situated underneath his offic~~. His e.vposiire level wried c*oiisidernbIy. Untier normal process conditions. the mea-.vureti~~rtiirildehvr/e lesrl nus 0.03 mg/m.'. The pntient IVNS e,wniirzed by different specialists over I Yz ywrs. It wns concluded thut that he had psychgenic d,vsphonia. However, N specijic Itinngeal pro-orxtion test l+qith ,fi,rtnaldehyde carried out ut the Finnish Institute o f Occuptrtionul Hetilth W N S positive. His laryrigitis was s o serious that he was pensioned. During the 3 yetirs of,follobiwp his condition grtidually worsened. He now reucts especially to tobacco snioke titid other tiir impurities known to cvnttiin ,formaldehyde. 6 1996 I.Vile?.-Lis. ItIC.

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