A 40-year-old woman comes to the family practice clinic for a routine annual visit. She reports a 6-month history of progressively severe episodic shortness of breath, cough, wheeze and chest ...

Asthma is the most common chronic airway disease worldwide, imposing substantial clinical, societal, and economic burden.

Background: Hairdressers are at risk for occupational respiratory diseases, but the risk factors, causal agents, and underlying mechanisms are not completely defined. Aim: To describe the features of ...

In the second part of this respiratory health special report, Bernard Garbe looks at how serial peak expiratory flow can be used to identify occupational asthma. The first part of the report explores ...

Occupational asthma represents a significant subset of adult‐onset asthma, arising from workplace exposures to sensitising or irritant agents. It combines immunological and non‐immunological ...

New research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress suggests that the seemingly innocuous environment of an office can cause asthma in some workers. The study found a ...

Many intrinsic and extrinsic factors hinder primary health care professionals from identifying a patient as having occupational asthma. Occupational asthma (OA) is often overlooked as a diagnosis in ...

Occupational asthma is asthma that is caused or worsened by breathing in chemical fumes, gases, dust or other substances at work. Occupational asthma is asthma that is caused or worsened by breathing ...

Workers in the UK can breathe a little easier. The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) wants to reduce occupational asthma cases by 30 percent and has adopted an Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) to ...

Occupational asthma is caused by breathing in chemical fumes, gases, dust or other substances at work. It can cause chest tightness, wheezing and shortness of breath. It is important to identify it ...

OA can be categorized into two types – immunological and non-immunological: Immunological OA: This type of OA occurs due to an immunological reaction and is mediated by a type of antibody called ...

A guide to situations in which asthma could be caused by inhaling certain substances in the course of your work. This is called occupational asthma. Developing occupational asthma would be rare in the ...