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Occupational asthma caused by octopus particles. A 22-year-old female presented with symptoms of rhinoconjunctivitis as well as episodes of breathlessness and persistent cough accompanied by wheezing. For 2 years, she had been working in a canning fish and shellfish factory where she was directly handling and cooking seafood. Symptoms worsened during workdays, but over the weekends, she noticed improvement. The symptoms appeared 10 20 min after the time she started handling octopus and even when other colleagues cut it nearby. She tolerated handling other seafood. Skin prick tests for raw octopus: 20 mm, cooked octopus: 10 mm, raw squid: 6 mm, raw shrimp: 10 mm, cat dander 8 mm. Skin prick test were negative for other seafood and other common allergens. Total IgE: 176 ku/l, specific IgE for cat epithelium: 9.36 ku/l, squid: 0.51 ku/l, shrimp: 1.45 ku/l, tropomyosin: 0.84 ku/l, octopus: 24.60 ku/l. The patient was monitored while cutting cooked octopus for 3 h with no forced expiratory
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