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Lotto Tickets Not Lucky For Asthma

Filed Under Allergy Blog 

According to the New England Journal of Medicine May 28 2009 edition A 62 year old Spanish women suffered severe asthma attacks caused by her job from working in a very small lottery kiosk. Researchers believe that the machine responsible for printing tickets was to blame for her severe asthma attacks.

Similar machines are used to print credit card receipts and other quick receipts. The lottery tickets in this case were printed on thermal paper with N-propyl-acrylamide and acrylate tints. The woman’s symptoms seem to disappear when she was not working for extended periods of time and would reappear when she went back to work  in the lottery kiosk. On a few occasions emergency treatment was required due to what seems to have been a chemical sensitivity.

After many years of suffering the woman left her job and the symptoms soon vanished and she was able to live a much more healthier life. The case marks one of the first reported triggered by these type of machines.

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