Environmental and Workplace Allergies

Environmental and workplace allergy testing information for providers

Testing helping inform preventative strategies for your patients

As a primary care physician, you can play an important role in first-line management of allergies. Help manage your patients’ allergic diseases—whether triggered by environmental or workplace allergens—with a detailed medical history, a physical examination and an investigation of IgE antibodies through a blood test.

Environmental allergies

Allergic responses can develop to previously tolerated substances, and sensitization to seasonal and/or perennial allergens in the environment often accumulate to trigger allergic symptoms. Your patients may display symptoms of rhinitis, but non-allergic rhinitis and allergic rhinitis have different management strategies, underscoring the importance of an accurate diagnosis.

Workplace allergies

Possible allergic diseases found in the workplace, which include rhinitis, conjunctivitis, asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, contact urticaria and contact dermatitis, can result in long-term health impairment yet many occupational allergic diseases are largely underrecognized.¹

Who to test for environmental, workplace or seasonal allergies

Consider testing for allergic rhinitis in patients with asthma, eczema (atopic dermatitis), conjunctivitis, sinusitis, polyposis, upper respiratory tract infections, otitis media and sleeping disorders, as well as in children with learning and attention impairments.

For patients with suspected workplace inhalation exposure to specific allergens or suspected contact urticaria or contact dermatitis, IgE blood testing can establish IgE-mediated sensitization to allergens encountered in the workplace.

Get the answers you need to correctly diagnose and improve clinical management of your patients with an IgE blood test.

Environmental Allergy Profiles

The Labcorp Regional Respiratory Profiles With Pet Allergen Component Reflex tests for clinically relevant environmental and occupational allergens, including pollen, mold, dust mites and animal dander.

Workplace Exposure to Occupational Chemicals Profiles

Between 2% and 15% of all asthma associated with industry are attributed to occupational exposure to chemicals.² Labcorp offers quantitative allergen-specific IgE testing to help monitor workplace exposure to several chemical profiles.

Environmental and workplace allergy testing information for patients

Understand the source of your symptoms

If you’ve noticed one or more of the following symptoms:

• Stuffy, itchy or runny nose
• Sneezing
• Watery, red, itchy eyes and/or swollen eyelids
• Itchy throat
• Swelling of mouth/airways

You may be experiencing an allergy, such as a:

• Seasonal allergy from the pollens of grass, trees or weeds
• Indoor allergy from mold, dust mites and/or animal dander
• Workplace allergy from exposure to occupational chemicals, animals, mold, agricultural sources and/or a variety of materials

You may be sensitized to more than one allergen, meaning that your unwelcome symptoms may be caused by multiple allergens—such as dust mites, mold and grass pollen. If you are exposed to multiple allergens together, higher levels of exposure can add up and trigger your symptoms.