Polymer fume fever or fluoropolymer fever, also informally called Teflon flu, is an inhalation fever caused by the fumes released when Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, known under the trade name Teflon) is heated to between 300 °C and 450 °C. When PTFE is heated above 450 °C the pyrolysis products are different and inhalation may cause acute lung...
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An occupational disease marked by fever, pain in the chest, and cough caused by the inhalation of fumes given off by a plastic, polytetrafluorethylene, when heated. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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an occupational disorder due to exposure to the products of combustion of polymers, chiefly polytef. Manifestations are similar to those of metal fume fever.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. an occupational disease marked by fever, pain in the chest, and cough caused by the inhalation of fumes given off by a plastic, polytetrafluorethylene, when heated.
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