Pterygium and pinguecula: Do the Bengaluru garment factory workers suffer from this eye morbidity?
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction India is a developing country the garment workers in these industries are exposed to various occupational health problems leading to sickness absenteeism and compromise in quality of life the eye disorders were reported by 112 of workers The prevalence of pterygium in India varies from 912 in general population This study aims at determining the proportion of garment factory workers suffering from pinguecula andor pterygium and their associated risk factorsMethods It was a crosssectional study All the garment factory workers presenting to the ophthalmology department for routine eye examination were screened for pinguecula and pterygium Standard protocol was followed to measure vision using Snellens chart Data was analysed for percentage and proportions after obtaining approval from Institutional Ethics CommitteeResults A total of 848 subjects were screened out of which 102 1203 were found to have pinguecula or pterygium Of these 91 were females and 9 were males the mean age of the affected was 39 years Pinguecula was present in 84 subjects 82 pterygium was present in 18 177 subjects The nature of work in majority of the subjects n79 775 was tailoring Sickness absenteeism was more profound in pterygium group 28 Personnels with greater than twelve years of work experience had suffered by pinguecula 44 and pterygium 39Conclusion In our study 1 in 8 workers suffered from pinguecula or pterygium The affected belonged to middle age 39 years and had significant work experience above 12 years Thus pterygium and pinguecula may be considered as major occupational health problems among the garment factory workers Immediate policy decisions like screening and providing better working conditions for the workers is the need of the hour for the garment industriesKeywords Garment workers India Pinguecula Pterygium
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Harish Kumar N, Sandhya . R, Sharath B. N.
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