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- A set of symptoms, including headaches, fatigue, eye irritation, and dizziness, typically affecting workers in modern airtight office buildings and thought to be caused by indoor pollutants, such as formaldehyde fumes, particulate matter, microorganisms, etc.
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| Abstract from DBPedia | Sick building syndrome (SBS) is an unsubstantiated diagnosis where health problems are attributed to buildings. The cause of the health problems are unknown. Symptoms attributed to SBS may or may not be a direct result of inadequate cleaning or inappropriate cleaning methods. SBS has also been used to describe staff concerns in post-war buildings with misplanned building aerodynamics, defects in the construction materials or assembly process and-or inadequate maintenance. Certain symptoms tend to increase in severity with the time people spend in the building; often improving over time or even disappearing when people are away from the building. SBS is also used interchangeably with "building-related symptoms", which orients the name of the condition around patients' symptoms rather than a "sick" building. Attempts have been made to connect Sick Building Syndrome to various causes, such as contaminants produced by outgassing of some types of building materials, volatile organic compounds (VOC), improper exhaust ventilation of ozone (byproduct of some office machinery), light industrial chemicals used within, or lack of adequate fresh-air intake/air filtration (see minimum efficiency reporting value). The main identifying observation is an increased incidence of complaints of symptoms such as headache, eye, nose, and throat irritation, fatigue, dizziness, and nausea. In fact the 1989 Oxford English Dictionary defines SBS in that way. The World Health Organization created a 484-page tome on indoor air quality back in 1984 when SBS was attributed only to non-organic causes, and suggested that the book might form a basis for legislation or litigation. Sick building Syndrome has also been attributed to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. However, there have been inconsistent findings on whether air conditioning systems result in SBS or not.シックハウス症候群（シックハウスしょうこうぐん、Sick House Syndrome）は、建築用語または症候のひとつ。新築の住居などで起こる、倦怠感・めまい・頭痛・湿疹・のどの痛み・呼吸器疾患などの症状があらわれる体調不良の呼び名。また、新品の自動車でも新車のにおいによって同様の症状（New car smell）が報告されており、シックカー症候群としてマスメディア等で取り上げられている。米英での（Sick building syndrome/シックビルディング症候群）についての邦訳。 なお、真菌や担子菌のトリコスポロンなどに対するアレルギー反応が要因となる過敏性肺炎は、シックハウス症候群とは同一ではない。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sick_building_syndrome) |
