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Is there any evidence on blood pressure and spirometry

Afternoon, I need some advice please, at present when carrying out respiratory assessments we have always advised to check peoples blood pressure and if it is high then spirometry should not be carried out, also our previous OHP advised if someone is on medication for high blood pressure then t ...

Occupational Asthma, Health Professional, 1/10/2020, 1/11/2020,

Vital Capacity

Hello, I work for an OH provider and I write the respiratory directory, what I would like to ask if there is any reason for carrying out VC ? as we only document the FVC FVC1 FEV1/FVC I do not feel that we need to carry out VC as we are not documenting this and we are not diagnosing, please ca ...

Occupational Asthma, Health Professional, 1/3/2020, 1/9/2020,

Occupational asthma from chlorine-based cleaners?

Discussing Titan chlor plus with OH physician now convinced they are seeing “allergic” presentations rather than irritant. My bias remains irritant acting to aggravate underlying airways disease. Anyone seeing this in healthcare workers? Anything to support allergic rather than irritant?

Occupational Asthma, Specialist, 6/12/2019, 6/12/2019,

Occupational asthma from chlorine-based cleaners?

Occupational Asthma, Specialist, 6/12/2019, 6/12/2019,

Diesel exhaust and occupational asthma?

I have a patient with adult-onset asthma with low dose exposure to diesel exhaust. Do you know whether the bus depot workers with DEP OA had raised FeNO? - the experimental diesel challenges seem to suggest neutrophilic inflammation rather than eosinophilic?

Occupational Asthma, Specialist, 5/10/2019, 5/10/2019,

Optimal days working and days off work

I have a office worker that complains from asthma exacerbation during work by the air conditioning. I checked the literature that says peak flow measures must be done 2 week at work and 2 weeks off work but Oasys tutorial does not define the optimal ratio of days working and days off at peak flo ...

Occupational Asthma, Health Professional, 3/11/2019, 3/11/2019,

What is the shortest latency for isocyanates

A patient developed severe allergic asthma within days of exposure to low levels of isocyanates in a foam factory. Re-exposure at the factory caused recurrence within days. He had a marked eosinophillic reaction which recovered He has been left with asthma The exposure did not suggest a RAD ...

Occupational Asthma, Specialist, 11/15/2018, 11/18/2018,

missmatch between entered and on-graph data

Dear Sirs Pef measurements, that are entered in oasys worksheet, do not appear same on the graf and probably in subsequent analysis. I have taken pictures from the interface, but unfortunately there are no place where to attach it. May be you could provide email aadress, where I can send it? ...

Oasys, Specialist, 11/5/2018, 11/6/2018,

Can colophony asthma lead to fragrance reactions?

Last year I was exposed to colophony soldering fumes for about four weeks, and I started coughing daily and eventually had a very difficult time breathing. I sought medical attention and now have been diagnosed with Reactive Airways Disease, Asthma, and a Chemical Sensitivity requiring the offic ...

Occupational Asthma, Specialist, 9/4/2018, 9/4/2018,

Can acute formaldehyde exposure trigger sensitisation to another agent?

I carry our respiratory health surveillance for a poultry hatchery company. One of their workers was acutely exposed to ? formaldehyde in November 2016 enough to prompt an A&E attendance, and subsequently developed respiratory symptoms. Initially these were unrelated to work but at his kast surv ...

Occupational Asthma, Health Professional, 8/18/2018, 8/20/2018,