VACCINE

Harefuah • February 2015
The sick building syndrome
as a part of ‘ASIA’
(autoimmune/auto-inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants)
by Maoz-Segal R, Agmon-Levin N, Israeli E, Shoenfeld Y.
Abstract
The entity ‘sick building syndrome’ is poorly defined and comprises of a set
of symptoms resulting from environmental exposure to a work or a living
environment. The symptoms are mainly “allergic”-like and include nasal,
eye, and mucous membrane irritation, dry skin as well as respiratory symptoms
and general symptoms such as fatigue, lethargy, headaches and fever.
The Autoimmune [Auto-inflammatory] Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants
(ASIA) is a wider term which describes the role of various environmental
factors in the pathogenesis of immune mediated diseases. Factors entailing
an immune adjuvant activity such as infectious agents, silicone, aluminium
salts and others were found in association with defined and non-defined
immune mediated diseases. The sick building syndrome and ASIA share a
similar complex of signs and symptoms and probably the same immunological
mechanisms which further support a common denominator.
“Factors entailing an immune adjuvant activity
such as infectious agents, silicone, aluminium salts
and others were found in association with defined
and non-defined immune mediated diseases.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25856869