Smell or Taste Disturbances, Neurological Symptoms, and Hydrocarbon Exposure

Overview

Journal Int Arch Occup Environ Health

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 1992 Jan 1

PMID 1587626

Citations 7

Authors

P Hotz

A Tschopp

D Soderstrom

J Holtz

M A Boillat

F Gutzwiller

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Abstract

A total of 264 workers participated in a cross-sectional study concerning the toxicity of hydrocarbons. The clinical examination shows an increased prevalence of smell and/or taste disturbances in the heavily exposed group. These symptoms appear to be generally transitory and reversible. They seem to be due to concentration peaks rather than to a long exposure duration. They are associated with acute depressor effects and not with symptoms which could belong to a hydrocarbon-induced chronic toxic encephalopathy.

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