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Disaster Advice Glossary
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Disaster recovery and restoration can be veiled in mystery to the many who have not undertaken specific training. This glossary explains technical terms to assist both report writing and the understanding of those technical terms so often misunderstood.
Definition
| Allergy: |
A number of disease symptoms caused by exposures to the skin and of the respiratory system. Dusts, molds, mits, grass, animal dander and pollens are some of the primary allergens that cause persons to suffer from allergies. Health Note: Water damaged buildings are known to increase indoor allergens and mite activity. The use of airmovers during building drying are known to cause some allergy sufferers to leave contaminated buildings. |
| Aspergilliosis, Brocho-Pulmonary Allergy (ABPA): |
An immunologic hypersensitivity reaction in the bronchi caused by colonization of sputum of patients with Aspergillus fumigatus. The inflammatory reaction may recur and progress over years to result in destruction of the bronchi and fibrosis of pulmonary tissue. |
| Humidifier Lung: |
A type of allergic lung condition that is common among workers involved with refrigeration and air conditioning equipment. The allergy is produced by two kinds of fungus, micropolyspora and thermoactinomyces. Symptoms of the short-term form of the disease include chills, cough, fever, difficult breathing, loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting. The long-term form of the disease is known by fatigue, cough, weight loss, and difficult breathing during exercise. Also referred to as air conditioner lung. |
| Particulate Matter: |
a) A solid material that is a byproduct of construction waste which easily becomes airborne and can be inhaled. b) An airborne dust, spore, pollen or bioaerosol which can result in asthma and allergy-like conditions when inhaled. c) A solid material that settled out of air which can easily become airborne through disturbance or increased air movement. d) Particulate matter in water, especially contaminated water, while it is in a dissolved state. e) When surface water is removed, particulate matter constitutes the insoluble sand, clay, fines and other solid matter after an outdoor flood indoors or a blackwater sewage contamination from main-line sewer backflows. The former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warns that every day, the average persons respiratory system receives more than two table spoons of particulate matter (dust, pollen, tar, rubber, acids, metals, smoke, clutch and brake materials, bacteria, mould, and many other hazardous and allergic matter). |
| Water Damege Technician Acquired Infections and Disease: |
Health and Safety Note: Infections and disease acquired as occupational exposures to certain surface, water and airborne contaminates present in the water damage mitigation industry. See Allergy, Aspergillosis, Athletes Foot, Bloodborne Pathogens, Conjunctivitis, Contact Dermatitis, Cryptococcoses, Dysentery, Infections, Finger Nail Fungus, Hepatitis-A, Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, Legionella Pneumonitis, Occupational Related Respiratory Diseases, Pink-Eye, Tetanus, Toxins. | The Disaster Advice Glossary and its contents are the protected copyright of Disaster Advice
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