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, 2021 Background Because humidifier disinfectants (HDs) have been prohibited by the government because of their potential serious effects on human body, several studies on the relationship between HD and lung diseases have been separately performed on ...
Jun'ichi Cho, Seoheui Choi
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Exposure to Humidifier Disinfectants Increases the Risk of Asthma in Children.
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2018 Jisun Yoon +8 more
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Frequency of Humidifier and Humidifier Disinfectant Usage in Gyeonggi Provine
Environmental Health and Toxicology, 2012 This study is a cross-sectional study to investigate the frequency of humidifier and humidifier disinfectant usage in the general population.A questionnaire was applied to 94 subjects (46 male, 48 female) from the general population of Gyeonggi Province. The questionnaire consisted of 3 scales (general characteristics, 5 items about humidifier usage, 5
Jeon, Byoung-Hak, Park, Young Joon
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Toxics, 2022 (1) Background: Humidifier disinfectant (HD) is a biocidal chemical to keep the water tank inside a humidifier clean. Thousands of Koreans have experienced HD-related lung injuries. Of them, 6.9% were exposed to HD in hospitals.
Seula Lee +5 more
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Toxic hepatitis after exposure to humidifier disinfectant: A case series report. [PDF]
Environ Anal Health Toxicol, 2023 Health damage from humidifier disinfectants is an unprecedented environmental health disaster. Humidifier disinfectants were used broadly in Korea from 1994 to 2011. Most studies have focused on respiratory problems because of the exposure route and primary respiratory symptoms. This overlooks the previous research results that humidifier disinfectants
Kim HD, Kim HC, Leem JH.
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Psychological Responses among Humidifier Disinfectant Disaster Victims and Their Families [PDF]
Journal of Korean Medical Science, 2019 To substantiate psychological symptoms following humidifier disinfectant (HD) disasters, counseling records of 26 victims and 92 family members of victims (45 were bereaved) were analyzed retrospectively. Among the victims, 34.6% had Clinical Global Impression-Severity scores of over 4, which meant they were moderately ill.
Seonyoung Yoo +8 more
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Health Effects Associated With Humidifier Disinfectant Use: A Systematic Review for Exploration. [PDF]
J Korean Med Sci, 2022 It has been 10 years since the outbreak of lung disease caused by humidifier disinfectants in Korea, but the health effects have not yet been summarized. Therefore, this study aims to systematically examine the health effects of humidifier disinfectants that have been discovered so far.All literature with humidifier disinfectants and their ...
Song JH +7 more
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Toxics, 2021 The inhalation of humidifier disinfectants (HDs) is linked to HD-associated lung injury (HDLI). Polyhexamethylene guanidine (PHMG) is significantly involved in HDLI, but the correlation between chloromethylisothiazolinone (CMIT) and HDLI remains ...
Sang-Hoon Jeong +13 more
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Humidifier disinfectant disaster: what is known and what needs to be clarified [PDF]
Environmental Health and Toxicology, 2016 After the initial investigations by the Korea Centers for Disease Control in 2011, over 1000 suspicious cases of humidifier disinfectant (HD) victims were subsequently reported by 2015, and numbers are still increasing dramatically in 2016 in the midst of the prosecutors' office investigation. This study attempts to summarize the current understandings
Sungkyoon Kim, Domyung Paek
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