This latter type of threat is examined by an IOM committee in response to a request from the Department of Veterans Affairs to examine the health consequences to military forces deployed in proximity to potentially hazardous burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.Military Medicine: Official Journal of ...
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Possible exposures include: Burn Pits/Airborne Hazards Gulf War related exposures Agent Orange Radiation Camp Lejeune contaminated water exposure Other environmental exposures If the patient declines or answers that they don’t know, the reminder will be due in 1 year. 2. There is a new reminder ...
Institute of Medicine consensus report (2011) Long-term health consequences of exposure to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. Steele L, Sastre A, Gerkovich MM, Cook MR (2012) Complex factors in the etiology of Gulf War Illness: wartime exposures and risk factors in veteran subgroups. Environ...
Exposures to higher concentrations cause severe local irritation with choking and burning in the chest, violent coughing, yellow staining of the mucous membranes, expectoration of yellow-colored sputum, headache, and vomiting. Often, these early symptoms may be mild or entirely absent. After 2 to ...
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Let’s talk about two particular inhalation exposures that have created a lot of concern and have been, and continue to be, heavily studied: Burn Pits Sand Storms Sandstorms What is this substance? Extremely fine sand, comparable to our dust. Wind blowing across large areas of flat terrain pi...
Institute of Medicine (2011) Long-term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.Russo, W. (2013). Initial Research on the Long-Term Health consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. Departm...
One of the most surprising results to come out of a surveyreleased this week by the Iraq and...Mulrine, Anna
Here, we investigated whether postdeployment serum samples contain biomarkers associated with exposure to burn pits. Methods: A total of 237 biomarkers were measured in 800 serum samples from deployed and never-deployed subjects. We used a regression model a...