Professional paper
The study of acute and chronic action of cotton wool and wool in a cotton mill
Boža Raguž
; Škola narodnog zdravlja »Andrija Štampor« Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Eugeni9ja Žuškin
; Škola narodnog zdravlja »Andrija Štampor« Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
M. Šarić
; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada JAZU, Zagreb
Blaženka Požega
; Škola narodnog zdravlja »Andrija Štampor« Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
The influence of vegetable dust upon the ventilatory lung function and the incidence of chronic respiratory diseases in 88 cotton wool spinners and 100 wool spinners has been studied. The control group consisted of 93 subjects not exposed to dust. The acute reversible reduction of the forced expiration volume in one second (FEV/1 sec) was revealed in workers exposed to cotton wool dust. Chronic changes due to exposure to cotton wool or wool dust could not have been revealed with certainty. However, the symptoms of chronic bronchitis have been recorded in higher percentage hut there was in the same time also the association of these symptoms with the smoking habit and with the sex (more frequent in males). Symptoms specific for byssinosis were not found. The percentage of the Ioss of working days due to diseases of respiratory system was found to be higher in the cotton wool spinnery than in the control group.
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177792
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Publication date:
28.6.1967.
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