A case report of hepatitis B combined with dimethylformamide poisoning
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Abstract
A case of severe occupational dimethylformamide (DMF) poisoning was reported. The worker was diagnosed as hepatitis B without pre-employment occupational health examination and exposed to DMF meeting the requirements of national exposure limits. No evidence supported to eliminate the potential interaction or synergistic effect between hepatitis B and DMF poisoning. The diagnosis process suggested that DMF exposure and similar poisoning incidents might be prevented through employers' attaching importance to occupational health management, fulfilling the principle responsibility for occupational disease prevention and treatment, performing pre-employment occupational health examinations, and timely detecting occupational contraindications; occupational health supervision departments should strengthen the supervision and management to employers, urging them to fulfill the principle responsibility for prevention and treatment of occupational diseases.
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