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Occupational asthma is an occupational condition defined as: a disease characterized by variable airflow limitation and/or airway hyper-responsiveness due to causes and conditions attributable to a particular occupational environment and not stimuli encountered outside the workplace.Asthma is defined as a respiratory disease caused by narrowing of the air passages[citation needed]. Symptoms include shortness of breath tightness of the chest nasal irritation coughing and wheezing.