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Q: Does anyone know of persons ill because of copy machines?

It would help me for different purposes to get in touch with other persons in my same case. (see below) Perhaps people over there know more and could provide me with some useful extra information.

 

ILLNESS DUE TO PHOTOCOPIER AND LASER PRINTER
 
I have developed severe bronchial hyperreactivity and multiple chemical sensitivity. It was only caused by the vapours released by a photocopier and a laser printer. These machines can be a risk when they smell strongly and are used intensively in an unventilated place where someone is staying all the time because they can release dozens of different chemicals among them ozone and volatile compounds know for their deletereous effects on the airways.
 
These chemical cocktails can produce complex toxicological syndromes that physicians are usually misdiagnosing (as allergy to pollens, viruses, asthma due to urban smog, atypical genetical sjogren sydrome, psychosomatic anxiety or others due to the fact that the medical establishment is not familiar with respiratory toxicology and do not usually enquiry about possible irritants for the airways that the patient might be breathing.
 
Anyone knowing of similar cases please report them here or elsewere. It is important to make people aware of a potentially serious risk, easily avoidable but neglected everywhere

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Rick Frea, Health Pro
6/ 5/10 7:37pm

I have never heard of this, although there is such a thing as occupational asthma, which is asthma caused by inhaling chemicals in the workplace.  Check out this link for more information.  You'll also see here a list of chemicals, so you can see if one of these chemicals is in copy machines. 

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By MRE— Last Modified: 12/25/10, First Published: 04/29/10