| Title: | "The effect of low-volatile organic compounds, water-based paint on aggravation of allergic disease in schoolchildren" |
| Author(s): | Park DW; Kim SH; Moon JY; Song JS; Choi J; Kwak HJ; Jeong MG; Ro YS; Kim TH; Sohn JW; Shin DH; Park SS; Yoon HJ; |
| Address: | "Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Department of Dermatology, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1600-0668 (Electronic) 0905-6947 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Whether indoor painting aggravates preexisting allergic diseases remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate the impact of new classroom painting on aggravation of asthma, allergic rhinitis (AR), and atopic dermatitis (AD) in children. Studied school was previously painted with conventional water-based paint 20 years ago and had natural ventilation system. We identified a total of 172 children aged 10-12 years with allergic diseases in 17 classrooms, which were allocated to newly painted rooms with low-volatile organic compounds (VOC), water-based paint, or existing rooms. After painting, there was no intervention or internal airflow to influence indoor air environment in both classrooms. We prospectively assessed the symptom severity and serious events of allergic diseases between both classrooms at baseline and after one and eight weeks after painting. At one and eight weeks, there were no significant changes in the Childhood Asthma Control Test scores, the fractional nitric oxide levels, lung function in asthmatic children in either classroom. There were also no significant changes in the severity score of AR or AD, or serious events in all allergic diseases. These findings suggest classroom painting with this new paint at the levels encountered in this study might not be a major aggravating factor for school-aged children with allergic diseases" |
| Keywords: | "Air Pollution, Indoor/*adverse effects/analysis Asthma/chemically induced Child Dermatitis, Atopic/chemically induced Female Humans Hypersensitivity/*etiology Male Paint/analysis/*toxicity Prospective Studies Rhinitis, Allergic/chemically induced *Symptom;" |
| Notes: | "MedlinePark, D W Kim, S-H Moon, J-Y Song, J S Choi, J Kwak, H J Jeong, M G Ro, Y S Kim, T H Sohn, J W Shin, D H Park, S S Yoon, H J eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2016/03/24 Indoor Air. 2017 Mar; 27(2):320-328. doi: 10.1111/ina.12301. Epub 2016 Apr 15" |
