Short report
Nasal, eye, and skin irritation in dockyard painters
R Chen, S Semple, F Dick, A Seaton
Department of
Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Medical School, Foresterhill,
Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK
Correspondence to: Professor A Seaton a.seaton{at}abdn.ac.uk
Accepted 17 April 2001
OBJECTIVES
To
determine whether the risk of irritant symptoms in painters is related
to their exposure to paint.
METHODSThe
prevalences of skin, eye and nasal symptoms were compared in 260 United
Kingdom and 109 Chinese dockyard painters, 539 British community
controls, and 255 Chinese dockyard controls, relative to their exposure
to paints.
RESULTSPainters
showed an excess of irritant symptoms compared with controls. Adjusted
relative risks (RRs) (95% confidence interval (95% CI) were: for skin
irritation 1.58 (1.19 to 2.08) in British painters and 2.68 (1.73 to
4.09) in Chinese painters; for eye irritation, 1.41 (0.98 to 2.05) and
3.01 (1.90 to 4.76); and for nasal irritation, 1.53 (1.10 to 2.14) and
6.73 (3.53 to 12.82), respectively. Exposure duration-response
relations were found for these symptoms; the risks decreased with time
after exposure ended.
CONCLUSIONSIrritant
symptoms occur more often in dockyard painters than in controls, and
this is likely to be a response to exposure to paint.
Keywords: paint exposures; dockyard painting; health effect; irritant symptoms
© 2001 by Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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