Environmentally Induced Dysfunction: The Camp Hill Medical Centre Experience
| Autor: | R. A. Fox, David B. Shires, John Ruedy, Hilda M. Fox |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
myalgia
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Nausea Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Medicine (miscellaneous) Folliculitis medicine.disease Sick building syndrome Hair loss Weight loss Chronic fatigue syndrome Sore throat Physical therapy Medicine medicine.symptom business Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine. 6:351-358 |
| ISSN: | 1364-6907 1359-0847 |
| Popis: | In 1987, workers in the kitchen of one of the teaching hospitals in Halifax, Nova Scotia began to experience symptoms of pruritus, folliculitis, wheezing, conjunctival irritation, sore throat and headache, all suggestive of an indoor air quality (IAQ) problem. Approximately 127 of 160 kitchen workers were affected over a 2-year period and the complaints included cognitive difficulties and reactivity to environmental irritants. Workers in other parts of the hospital developed increasingly serious problems, including bronchial hyperreactivity, nausea, diarrhoea, weight loss, hair loss, recurrent infections, myalgia and arthralgia as well as more sinister neurotoxic effects of memory loss, poor concentration, visual perceptual losses, peripheral paraesthesia, Raynaud's phenomenon, severe fatigue, dizziness and neuromuscular incoordination. Between 1991 and 1993, more than 700 workers, out of a total workforce of 1250, reported symptoms. Over 300 workers were off work for periods of from 3 months to 3 years a... |
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