Are high-dose toxic exposures always associated with reactive airways dysfunction syndrome (RADS)?

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 439-442

  Hickmann, Martha A ^a   Nelson, E Donald ^b   Siegel, Earl G ^b   Bernstein, Jonathan A ^c  

^a Division of Immunology   (United States)

^b Drug and Poison Information Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorine dioxide; Reactive airways dysfunction syndrome; Toxic exposure

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CHLORINE DIOXIDE; METHACHOLINE; SALBUTAMOL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GLASS INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; REACTIVE AIRWAYS DYSFUNCTION SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN TEST; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AEROSOLS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DENTAL DISINFECTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SYNDROME;

BRONCHUS;

EID: 0035651779     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00039890109604479     Document Type: Article

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