| Some professions can actually cause asthma | | | | |
| or, trigger it to make it worse, this is | | | | However if it is just you it could be another |
| called occupational asthma. | | | | cause such as job-related stress rather than |
| | | | any fumes or pollutants. |
| Most jobs locations, especially office and | | | | |
| factory professions, have some kind of dust, | | | | Wrongly blaming your job for your asthma can |
| smells and other fumes, with which you have | | | | have very bad effects. |
| direct contact or, indirectly, as it may be | | | | |
| going through the ventilation or air systems | | | | Why lose your job if it is harmless and |
| (from one office to another), producing | | | | didn't cause your asthma at all? |
| occupational asthma. | | | | |
| | | | Also, if people think that the workplace |
| Usually the levels that you breathe in are so | | | | caused asthma, the expense of improving |
| minute (small) that you aren't troubled by | | | | working conditions may mean there will be |
| it. | | | | fewer jobs or in some cases no jobs at all. |
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| This means that if the job location , or your | | | | In addition, a diagnosis of occupational |
| work environment, is the cause of your | | | | asthma may reduce your chances of future |
| occupational asthma, your asthmatic | | | | employment. |
| conditions will improve if you leave that | | | | |
| job, or that at least change your work | | | | However, if your gets better during the |
| environment, assuming that you and your | | | | weekends, on an extended break, or when you |
| doctor have caught and treated it early | | | | are on vacation, it likely that something at |
| enough. | | | | work is the cause of it. |
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| However the longer you continue working in | | | | The dust, fumes or allergens in various |
| the same conditions which are causing the | | | | trades such as bakeries (flour), working with |
| asthma, the more likely you are to continue | | | | animals, working with pharmaceuticals, |
| having asthmatic conditions even after you | | | | craftsmen (especially wood), electronics |
| leave those working conditions and stay away | | | | (soldering), textile dyes (reactive dyes), |
| from the dust, smells or fumes. | | | | polyurethane paints and plastic moulding, |
| | | | etc., can be direct causes of occupational |
| Unfortunately, most continue with a job in a | | | | asthma. |
| damaging environment as they have not | | | | |
| realized that there is a relationship between | | | | Oddly enough, many substances with a nasty |
| their environment and their health, or | | | | smell don't seem to cause asthma, even though |
| because it is seemingly very difficult to | | | | they can cause allergic reactions in the |
| leave or change jobs. The cost of either is | | | | nose. |
| very high, occupational asthma, or other | | | | |
| health issues. | | | | If you believe you may have asthma, |
| | | | occupational or not, do not hesitate to speak |
| When a job or workplace is causing the | | | | with your doctor immediately. |
| asthma, co-workers, are also affected. | | | | |