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Environmental and Workplace Allergies
Indoor allergies, in the workplace or in school, may cause year-round symptoms, which may get worse with environmental or seasonal allergies.
Learn how a blood test can help identify potential allergic triggers found both indoors and outdoors.
Environmental and workplace allergy testing information for providers
Testing helping inform preventative strategies for your patients
As a primary care physician, you can play an important role in first-line management of allergies. Help manage your patients’ allergic diseases—whether triggered by environmental or workplace allergens—with a detailed medical history, a physical examination and an investigation of IgE antibodies through a blood test.
Environmental allergies
Allergic responses can develop to previously tolerated substances, and sensitization to seasonal and/or perennial allergens in the environment often accumulate to trigger allergic symptoms. Your patients may display symptoms of rhinitis, but non-allergic rhinitis and allergic rhinitis have different management strategies, underscoring the importance of an accurate diagnosis.
Workplace allergies
Possible allergic diseases found in the workplace, which include rhinitis, conjunctivitis, asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, contact urticaria and contact dermatitis, can result in long-term health impairment yet many occupational allergic diseases are largely underrecognized.1
Who to test for environmental, workplace or seasonal allergies
Consider testing for allergic rhinitis in patients with asthma, eczema (atopic dermatitis), conjunctivitis, sinusitis, polyposis, upper respiratory tract infections, otitis media and sleeping disorders, as well as in children with learning and attention impairments.
For patients with suspected workplace inhalation exposure to specific allergens or suspected contact urticaria or contact dermatitis, IgE blood testing can establish IgE-mediated sensitization to allergens encountered in the workplace.
Get the answers you need to correctly diagnose and improve clinical management of your patients with an IgE blood test.
Environmental Allergy Profiles
The Labcorp Regional Respiratory Profiles With Pet Allergen Component Reflex tests for clinically relevant environmental and occupational allergens, including pollen, mold, dust mites and animal dander.
Workplace Exposure to Occupational Chemicals Profiles
Between 2% and 15% of all asthma associated with industry are attributed to occupational exposure to chemicals.2 Labcorp offers quantitative allergen-specific IgE testing to help monitor workplace exposure to several chemical profiles.
| Number | Name |
|---|---|
| 602671 | α-Amylase |
| 602673 | Cotton Lint |
| 602666 | Ethylene Oxide |
| 602668 | Formaldehyde |
| 602665 | Isocyanate HDI |
| 602663 | Isocyanate MDI |
| 602662 | Isocyanate TDI |
| 602669 | Latex |
| 602667 | Phthalic Anhydride |
Labcorp can help meet your allergy needs
Contact a Labcorp representative to learn more about how we can help meet your allergy testing needs
Did you know?
50%
Half of patients prescribed antihistamines for their reported allergic rhinitis have symptoms that are not due to allergy.1
40-50%
Sensitization rates to one or more common allergens among school children around the world are currently approaching 40–50%.3
Environmental and workplace allergy testing information for patients
Understand the source of your symptoms
If you’ve noticed one or more of the following symptoms:
- Stuffy, itchy or runny nose
- Sneezing
- Watery, red, itchy eyes and/or swollen eyelids
- Itchy throat
- Swelling of mouth/airways
You may be experiencing an allergy, such as a:
- Seasonal allergy from the pollens of grass, trees or weeds
- Indoor allergy from mold, dust mites and/or animal dander
- Workplace allergy from exposure to occupational chemicals, animals, mold, agricultural sources and/or a variety of materials
You may be sensitized to more than one allergen, meaning that your unwelcome symptoms may be caused by multiple allergens—such as dust mites, mold and grass pollen. If you are exposed to multiple allergens together, higher levels of exposure can add up and trigger your symptoms.
Get answers from your healthcare provider
Many different allergens—substances that cause an allergic reaction—can be found both inside and outside your home and even at your workplace.
To understand which allergens may be triggering your symptoms, the first step is to schedule an appointment with your healthcare provider and ask if blood-based allergen-specific IgE testing can help provide answers. This allergy test is:
- A convenient blood test
- Appropriate for anyone (age 3 months and older)
- Not affected by prescription or over-the-counter medications
Along with a medical exam and discussion with your doctor, the results of a blood test can help your healthcare provider or specialist:
- Control your allergy symptoms
- Determine which allergens trigger your symptoms or condition
- Determine how to best eliminate or reduce your allergy triggers
- Prescribe medication
- Refer to a specialist for additional testing, if needed
Get answers about your allergy and contact your healthcare provider today for symptom relief
References
- https://www.aaaai.org/about-aaaai/newsroom/allergy-statistics Accessed 28 Sept 2022
- Brooks BO, Sullivan JB. Immunotoxicology. In: Sullivan JB, Krieger GR, eds. Hazardous Material Toxicology: Clinical Principles of Environmental Health. Baltimore, Md: Williams & Wilkins;1992:209-210.
- European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology; Global Atlas of Allergic Rhinitis and Chronic Rhinosinusitis, 2015. https://medialibrary.eaaci.org/mediatheque/media.aspx?mediaId=60232&channel=8518. Accessed 6 Oct 2022.