Cleaning products and short-term respiratory effects among female cleaners with asthma.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We evaluated the short-term effects of exposure to cleaning products on lung function and respiratory symptoms among professional cleaning women.

Methods

Twenty-one women with current asthma and employed as professional cleaners participated in a 15-day panel study. During 312 person-days of data collection, participants self-reported their use of cleaning products and respiratory symptoms in daily diaries and recorded their forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) and peak expiratory flow (PEF) three times per day using a handheld spirometer. We evaluated associations of cleaning product use with upper and lower respiratory tract symptoms using Poisson mixed regression models and with changes in FEV1 and PEF using linear mixed regression analyses.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Vizcaya D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8856568 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature