A study was conducted in beauty parlor workers of Lucknow, India, to assess the prevalence of respiratory morbidity and lung function abnormalities compared to their control subjects belonging to the same socioeconomic status and ethnic group, having never been exposed to the workplace of beauty parlor and having not used any cosmetics. Respiratory morbidity and bronchial obstruction based on P...

The beauty parlor industry is one of the fastest growing industries of Bangladesh. The lifestyle of people of our country has changed rapidly over the past few years. Realizing the importance of sound health and presentation, people are becoming more concerned about their health and beauty. Thousands of beauty-care service providers or beauty parlors have sprung up all over the country in the l...

the beauty parlor industry is one of the fastest growing industries of bangladesh. the lifestyle of people of our country has changed rapidly over the past few years. realizing the importance of sound health and presentation, people are becoming more concerned about their health and beauty. thousands of beauty-care service providers or beauty parlors have sprung up all over the country in the l...

Growth of beauty industry had increased dramatically in moder era. Appreciation to beauty is rapidly increasing with modern life style. Occupational health issues among the beauty parlor service providers is also increasing rapidly. Employees engaged in beauty parlors were exposed to various types of occupational health problems like respiratory infections, musculoskeletal disorder, back pain, ...

Technologies and devices for cosmetic procedures are developing with each passing day. However, increased and unauthorized use of such emerging technologies may also lead to increases in unexpected results and complications as well. Here, we report a case of facial cellulitis after a "beauty parlor" session of skin cleaning with jet stream peeling device in 19-year old female patient for the fi...

In normal use, milking parlor can cause the release of oxytocin through neuroendocrine reflex, but the use of milking parlor sometimes cause stress and lead to a decrease in milk production. In Indonesia at this time, traditional milking by hand is still widely used by dairy farmers. The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of milking parlor to the physiological and behavioral respon...

Simulation models of parallel, rotary, and side-opening milking parlors were built that could predict milking parlor performance according to herd size, number of milking stalls, labor quality, and cow characteristics. The models were validated by statistically comparing the duration of the simulated milking process with actual data collected at 3 dairy farms during 12 mo. Various scenarios wer...