title: [Chronic pollution with environmental toxins: formaldehyde].
abstract: Formaline is a colourless, strongly odoriferous gas. It is a very important basic component in chemical industry. It has become well known as a poison in residential areas due to its appearance in chipboard panels. Formaline causes a variety of acute and chronic toxic stress symptoms. In many cases the relation of formaline exposition and symptoms is difficult to demonstrate. The main keys to diagnosis are a very careful anamnesis and the cumulated appearance of symptoms. We intend to show several possible sources of stress symptoms caused by formaline, as well as diagnostic possibilities. This includes several methods of diagnostic assessing formaline concentration in the air, and several suggestions for the reduction of formaline emission.
authors.affiliation: Zentralärztliche Gutachterabteilung, Würzburg.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Paulus
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Werk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heinrich
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schweisfurth
mesh_terms: D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005557:Formaldehyde / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008452:Maximum Allowable Concentration
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D005557:Formaldehyde
vernacular_title: Chronische Belastung mit Umwelttoxinen: Formaldehyd.