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Taste Exam: A Brief and Validated Test
Published on: August 17, 2018
[Taste disorders in chromium exposed workers]
1Hals-Nasen-Ohrenklinik, Bezirkskrankenhauses Dessau.
Abstract:
Taste thresholds were investigated by means of chemical and electric stimulation in order to prove the induction of taste disturbances by chrome dust. There were examined 46 persons with exposition by potassium bichromate, chromic acid and zinc chromate, 19 of them working under conditions of a lower chrome exposition level but 27 of them working under conditions of a higher chrome exposition level. We could find a increasing threshold in taste qualities "sweet", "poor", "salty" and "bitter" corresponding to an increase of chrome exposition on the one hand and likewise of electric stimuli on the other hand. The quantity of chrome exposition must be regarded more important than its quality and its duration. Finally we want to recommend the appliance of always as electrogustometry as chemogustometry for occupational taste investigations because both the methods seem to differ somewhat.
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