A STUDY ON SPIROMETRIC INDICES IN COTTON MATTRESS WORKERS.

Background: Work in the textile sector has been recognized as an occupational danger for than 300 years. Byssinosis is the most frequent and well-studied disease affecting cotton textile workers; nevertheless, additional symptom complexes such as mill fever, weaver's cough, and mattress-maker's cough also affect textile workers. Objectives 1. To Evaluate the Health Hazards of the cotton Mattress workers after prolonged expose to cotton dust. 2. To assess the spirometric Profile in these cotton mattress workers. 3. To examine the relationship of the degree of impairment of lung functions with duration of exposure. Material & Methods. Study Design: Community based prospective cross-sectional study. Study Area: Department of Physiology and Department of General Medicine. Siddhartha medical college, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Study Period: 1 year. Study Population: cotton mattress workers are enrolled in to the present study to evaluate, spirometric profile. Sample Size: 30 males cotton mattress workers are enrolled in to the present study to evaluate, spirometric profile and 15 cases of control group were evaluated. Sampling Technique: Simple Random technique. Study Tools and Data Collection Procedure: 30 male cotton mattress workers, along with control group of 15 male cases were taken, belonging to different areas of Vijayawada city. A detailed History & Clinical examination was done, other coexisting lung diseases like DM/HTN and smokers were excluded, spirometric (Pulmonary Function Test) evaluation done with the aid of Medispiror, Spirometer. Results are analyzed. Results: Analysis shows that there was a significant variation between cotton mattress workers and non-cotton mattress workers as far as FVC, FEV1 are concerned, in these two tests, t-test values are -3.71327, -3.4394 respectively, and the corresponding pvalues were 0.000866234, 0.001787 respectively and factor FEF25-75 shows significant decrement in seen as t-est value is -1.60617 corresponding p-value are 0.119072 respectively However the factors FEV1% and PEF shows no significant decrement or Increase In cotton mattress workers and others (t-test values -3.37492, 0.045478). Conclusion: All the subjects with more than 5 years exposure are symptomatic (cough-100%, chest tightness 21%, S.0.B 21%). Sneezing is the predominant upper Respiratory symptom (80%). The occupation of cotton mattress making has a statistically significant cause-effect relationship with regard to ventilatory defect. FEV1 and FVC showed negative correlation with duration of exposure and that with increased duration exposure FEV1 and FVC values are decreasing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]