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