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Residential indoor air monitoring to assess long-term exposure to air pollution in susceptible populations for epidemiology: overview and early findings. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Health
Kim SY   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Humidifier lung and humidifier fever

Lung, 1988
The aim of our study was to evaluate clinical diagnoses in symptomatic persons exposed to aerosols from humidifiers or air conditioners. In addition, we tried to identify the causative antigens. Results of clinical investigations, including inhalation challenge tests, demonstrated a typical hypersensitivity pneumonitis (humidifier lung) in 9 persons ...
Juergen Behr, G Fruhmann, W Ehret
exaly   +3 more sources

Inhalational Lung Injury Associated With Humidifier “White Dust”

open access: yesPediatrics, 2011
Humidifiers are commonly used in the community to relieve symptoms associated with acute respiratory infections in young children; however, clear benefits of these devices have not been documented. The Environmental Protection Agency has not found any adverse health effects related to humidifier use.
Ameet S, Daftary, Robin R, Deterding
openaire   +3 more sources

Humidifier disinfectant and use characteristics associated with lung injury in Korea

Indoor Air, 2019
Since around the year 2000, hundreds of people in Korea have developed humidifier disinfectant-associated lung injury (HDLI). We collected all HD exposure-related information from the field investigations into the locations in which the 1199 registered patients had used HD.
Eun Lee, Sungsu Jung, So Yeon Lee
exaly   +3 more sources

Humidifier’s Lung

Respiratory Disease Series
Susumu Sakamoto
exaly   +2 more sources

[Humidifier lung].

Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, 1981
Breathing air from a humidifier or an air conditioning unit contaminated by various microorganisms can cause an acute lung disease involving fever, cough and dyspnea, termed "humidifier fever". This type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis was first described in 1959 by PESTALOZZI in the Swiss literature and subsequently by BANASZAK et al.
P, Gerber   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

[Various forms of humidifier lung].

Klinische Wochenschrift, 1990
Clinical and immunological investigations of 15 workers in a repro-printing house revealed a prevalence of 7% for the occurrence of humidifier-lung. Serological sensitization to humidifier water and fungi respectively was found in 73%, fragmentary symptoms in 53%. In comparison to smokers, elevated antibody levels occurred more frequently in nonsmokers
R, Hauck, X, Baur
openaire   +1 more source

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