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The Effect of Cotton Wool Dust on Peak Flow Meter (PEF)of Textile Factory Workers in Mosul | ||
| Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 230-236 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Kassim .M. Sultan; Muhammed .W.AL.Obaidy; Aziz Mohammed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT : BACKGROUND: Byssinosis is a disease caused by long exposure to cotton, hamp, and flax dust, it differs from occupational asthma, it needs along period of exposure to develop and the worker gets adaptation on subsequent days after Monday chest tightness. The over all prevalence of byssinosis was 22.4%.Byssinosis needs at least 10 years to develop, the prevalence and severity increased with increasing duration of exposure to cotton dust. processing of cotton is more harmful to lungs, and this is due probably to high dust concentration, or the dust contains toxins and other organic substances which decrease in later manipulations. OBJECTIVE : To find out the prevalence of byssinosis among textile factory workers in mousel. To through alight on the relationship between smoking and byssinosis among workers exposed to cotton wool dust. the relationship between duration of working in a textile factory and occurrence of byssinosis PATIENT AND METHOD: Two hundred and fifty Mosul Textile factory male workers , occupationally exposed to cotton dust, aged (22-65) years were randomly selected and were interviewed to get information about age, work duration, smoking habit, and about chronic cough, phlegm, wheeze and chest tightness, and workers were examined clinically, and special considerations attended to the chest. The workers involved in this study were in good health at the time of engagement to this work, and any worker with bronchial asthma, or other chest diseases were excluded. by history .Peaked expiratory flow (PEF) was carried out for all 250 workers by Right's Peak flow meter (W18416.Harlow, England). RESULT AND DISCUSSION: All of the workers were male their age ranged 22-65 years with mean age of 45.3 years, in those between 31-40 years the incidence was 10.8%, this increased to 49.3% in those whose age was over 51 years. The mean work duration was 18.2 years, ranged (2-44) years. The prevalence was 12.6% in age groups 10-19 year work duration, 47.2% in 20-29 years, and 49.2% in those over 30 year work duration. In age group 10-19 years work duration moderate cases of byssinosis was 4.7% and no any sever case and mean PEF 106%, while in age group over 30 year work duration there was 33.3% moderate and 7.9% sever cases of byssinosis and mean PEF 94.9%.increased prevalence and severity of byssinosis in sections where the dust concentration was high. In the weaving room 12%, were byssinotic, where the dust concentration was lowest, 25%, in spinning room where the dust concentration was higher, while in ginning room where the dust concentration is highest the prevalence was 41.8%. . CONCLUSION: We have shown that the prevalence of byssinosis is still high in MousalTexitle factory- Iraq. It is statistically estimated that the prevalence of byssinosis after 8 years will be 35.2%, the reason for this may be attributed to bad occupational safety measures.. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| byssinosis; peak expiratory flow rate | ||
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