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TAF Prev Med Bull. 2006; 5(5): 352-363


SICK BUILDING SYNDROME CASES BEHIND THE UNKNOWN SYMPTOMES

Oğuz,,ÖZYARAL*, Yaşar,,KESKİN, Feza,,ERKAN, Osman,,HAYRAN.




Abstract

In this study, several mycological analyses made in the houses of the sick people whose sensitivity against allergens was examined in line with the people and their histories who applied to İstanbul University, İstanbul Medical Faculty Department of Pulmonery Disease. Clinically, in the blood serums of three housewives, who have complaints about respiration difficulties, specific lgG antibody against several mold, thermophylic actinomycetes and bird antigens were examined. As a result of the analysis it is found out that there is a 75% direct relation between in-house molds flora and the molds that the sick person gained sensitivity. Findings appeared in housewives who are living in houses surrounded by molds are regarded as “sick building syndrome”. In this particular work, knowledge is given about real agents that are hidden behind some general symptoms of anemnesia and examination of patients with chronic complaints.

Key words: exogenous allergic alveolitis (EAA), dematiaceous (dark) fungi, melanin, toxicomycose, specific IgG antibody, sick building syndrome

Article Language: Turkish English





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