Effects on respiratory system due to exposure to wheat flour

Said, Azza Mohamed Ahmed; AbdelFattah, Eman Badawy; Almawardi, Abd-Almonem Mohsen

doi:10.1016/j.ejcdt.2016.11.006

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“…In accordance with literature, upper respiratory tract symptoms were found to be significantly more prevalent in subjects with severe exposure of flour dust [6,10]. Our study reported that each of smoking, eye symptoms, age, and years of exposure to flour dust had no statistically significant association with developing upper respiratory tract symptoms.…”

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“…When bakers, who are sensitive to flour dust, are exposed to elevated levels of dust over a long period of time, eye and/ or nose symptoms are first manifested before asthma [9]. Many studies highlighted that the frequency of the sensitization to flour dust increases with the level of exposure; this means that either long duration, or high levels of exposure to flour dust can result in a greater risk of developing allergy and asthma [9,10]. Symptoms usually resolve when exposure to the causative allergens is stopped, with continued exposure this can lead to developing baker's asthma in sensitive employees [8].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Role of Medical Surveillance in Detecting Baker’s Asthma in Taif city, Saudi Arabia

Alquraishi¹,

Margoushy²

2019

Glob Drugs Therap

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Objective: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the role of work related symptoms and medical surveillance in detecting occupational baker's asthma, assess incidence of baker's asthma in Taif city in Saudi Arabia, and detect the underlying causes such as hazards or exposures to any harmful materials.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in the duration between November 2016 and May 2017. This study included all bakery workers in Taif city in Saudi Arabia. The collected data included subjects' age, diagnosis with baker's asthma, exposure to flour dust, smoking status, eye symptoms, and respiratory tract symptoms. The study was limited by the small sample size.Results: A total of 47 subjects were recruited in this study. The mean ± SD age was 37.4 ± 8.7 years. The median (IQR) years of exposure to flour dust was 6 (9) years. The majority of subjects (n= 40, 85.1%) were non-smokers. only 2 subjects (4.3%) reported experiencing eye symptoms, while 4 subjects (8.5%) reported experiencing upper respiratory tract symptoms. In this sample population, none of the subjects were diagnosed with baker's asthma. Upper respiratory tract symptoms were found to be significantly more prevalent (p=0.004) in subjects with severe exposure of flour dust (100%), than subjects with minimal (7.1%) and moderate exposure (5.6%). No statistically significant association was found between upper respiratory tract symptoms and each of smoking, eye symptoms, age, and years of exposure to flour dust. Conclusion:Due to sample size limitations, we encourage conducting further studies to investigate baker's asthma in Saudi Arabia.

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Role of Medical Surveillance in Detecting Baker’s Asthma in Taif city, Saudi Arabia

Alquraishi¹,

Margoushy²

2019

Glob Drugs Therap

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“…Workers those who are potentially exposed to organic dust have high prevalence of respiratory disease (Oxman et al, 1993). Several reports (Taskar & Coultas, 2006;Schenker et al, 2009;Nordgren& Bailey, 2016;Said et al, 2017) have suggested that unprotected dust exposures in agricultural settings may lead to pulmonary fibrosis. Grain dust has also long history of association with various diseases, and ithas adverse effects on various organs such as eyes, nose, skin, lung and the airways (Hurst & Dosman, 1990).…”

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confidence: 99%

Occupational Health Assessment of Rice Mills’ Workers in North-East, India

Biswas¹,

Pranav²,

Kumar³

et al. 2019

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Assam has more than four thousand old rice mills where large numbers of workers are employed. They are involved in various kind of works namely loading/unloading, spreading, bag opening at feeding, filling, sewing, separate broken rice from husk and bag repairing, respectively. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the rice mill workers health status. A total of 145 rice mill workers were selected from 18 rice mill of Assam. A modified Nordic questionnaire and posture analysis using OWAS method were used. Polar heart rate monitor was used to measure the workers heart rate. The PEFR test was carried out by a Portable micro-quark spirometer for the selected subjects. The analysis of OWAS method indicated that most of the working posture of the workers needed immediate actions to improve working conditions as well as the technical equipment. Rice mill workers are suffered from discomfort feeling in different body parts and maximum discomfort reported in lower back (68.9%). It was observed that loading/unloading type of workers is suffered maximum discomfort manifestation compare to the other types of rice mill workers. Average working heart rate (138.1 beats/min) which was observed in loading/unloading workers which is indicated heavy work load and extremely high category drudgery index. Further, it was observed that the mean value of PEFR is 22.9% and it was lower for second level of experience compared to first level of experience. From the analysis it was concluded that rice mill workers health are highly affected by improper bending posture and work load in dusty condition.

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“…In flour mills, there is potential exposure to grain dust [6]. Individuals who work in dusty environments face the risk of inhaling particulate materials which may lead to adverse respiratory effects [7]. In the baking industry, exposure to wheat flour dust may cause respiratory illness of different nature and severity, ranging from simple irritant symptoms to allergic rhinitis or occupational asthma.…”

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confidence: 99%

Health and Safety Issues of Industry Workmen

Siddiqui

Akhund

Memon

et al. 2018

Eng. Technol. Appl. Sci. Res.

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Flour milling is considered the oldest trade industry, initiated at least 6000 years ago. Like every other industry, numerous problems arise during functioning and maintenance operations. The production process involves the breakdown of grains to separate their outer covering and inner endosperm grinding to fine flour particles. Workers serving in the industry have been in an environment exposed to flour dust. After conducting several interviews and a questionnaire survey to the workers and sales managers of flour mills within Hyderabad in Pakistan, the workforce was found to be suffering from sensitization, occupational asthma, allergic rhinitis, obstructive lung diseases and eye infection. The core reason was the inhaled and swallowed flour dust. The majority of the respondents highlighted improper flour milling process including intake and final product collection systems as the main causes of these health problems. The other part of the research work revealed that the majority of safety issues emerged due to the unavailability, the failure to use and the unawareness of personal protective equipment. Regarding the suggestions received during the survey from respective stakeholders, the health and safety issues can be controlled by improving feeding and collection systems and by wearing personal protective equipment.

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Effects on respiratory system due to exposure to wheat flour

Cited by 17 publications

References 33 publications

Role of Medical Surveillance in Detecting Baker’s Asthma in Taif city, Saudi Arabia

Role of Medical Surveillance in Detecting Baker’s Asthma in Taif city, Saudi Arabia

Occupational Health Assessment of Rice Mills’ Workers in North-East, India

Health and Safety Issues of Industry Workmen

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