Epidemiologic study on the prevalence of the sick house syndrome in Japan

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1: Arerugi. 2004 May;53(5):484-93.

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[Epidemiologic study on the prevalence of the sick house syndrome in Japan]

[Article in Japanese]

Koyasu Y, Sakai N, Imai T, Kanda A, Kawaguchi T, Odajima Y.

Department of Pediatrics, Showa University.

PURPOSE: Sick house syndrome (SHS; sick house syndrome) presents healthy damage

owing to the indoor environment of a

building. Although SHS is recognized socially, there is no medical definition

and its illness concept is also ambiguous.

This time, large-scale epidemiology investigation about SHS of our country was

conducted.

METHOD: The investigation paper in the " epidemiological research on SHS " group

of the Ministry of Health, Labour and

Welfare was used. The reply of 8737 adults and 9387 children was obtained.

RESULT: By the definition of a disease, prevalence of SHS was 8.5 to 22.1% at

the adult and 5.6-19.8% in the child.

Cause environmental substances were " a shampoo, makeup and a perfume " , " the

smell of a wall or the building materials of

a floor " , and " paint " . There was no significant difference in SHS development

of symptoms in construction years and the

situation of extension and alteration of a dwelling. As a feature of a life

style, symptoms developed in the strong

group of stress and sensitive to a smell developed mostly.

CONSIDERATION: Prevalence differed greatly by how SHS is defined. In order to

diagnose truer SHS, we think that the

prudent definition based also on the international standard is required.

PMID: 15247528 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]