Aktuelle Erkenntnisse zur Entwicklung obstruktiver Atemwegserkrankungen im Friseurgewerbe (BK Nrn.: 4301/4302)

In the past years, more than 300 hairdressers have been reported to the mandatory accident insurance carriers as being suspected of having developed hairdressers asthma. Between 2001 and 2003, only 68 to 85 cases were confirmed as being caused or worsened by working as a hairdresser. Our study of more than 100 hairdressers from 2001 - 2005 has shown two age peaks for suspected cases. The first one in mostly young atopic hairdressers lies between...