Symptoms of cadmium poisoning?

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Cadmium poisoning is a toxic disease caused by excessive intake of heavy metal cadmium, which can cause kidney, bone, lung and other organ diseases. A large amount of inhalation can cause acute pneumonia and pulmonary edema; Chronic poisoning can cause pulmonary fibrosis and kidney disease. The industries that come into contact with cadmium include smelting, spraying, welding and casting bearing surfaces of cadmium, using cadmium rods or graphite rods covered with cadmium as neutron absorbents in nuclear reactors, manufacturing cadmium batteries and other cadmium compounds, etc. Symptoms of cadmium poisoning? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of cadmium poisoning?

Most of them are caused by eating acidic food in cadmium plated containers. After several minutes to several hours, they have symptoms similar to acute gastroenteritis: nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, general fatigue, muscle soreness, headache and muscle pain. They can collapse due to water loss, and even die of acute renal failure. The lethal dose of cadmium in adults is more than 300 mg.

Inhalation of high concentration of cadmium smoke caused by the first symptoms of upper respiratory tract mucosa irritation, the above symptoms were relieved after contact. After 4-10 hours incubation period, cough, chest tightness, dyspnea, chills, back and limbs muscle and joint pain, chest X-ray examination showed patchy shadow and lung texture thickening. Severe patients with delayed pulmonary edema may die of respiratory and circulatory failure. A few patients had liver and kidney damage. In a few cases, pulmonary fibrosis occurred after acute phase, leading to pulmonary ventilation dysfunction.

Patients with chronic poisoning are often accompanied by macula in the neck of teeth, loss or anosmia, nasal mucosa ulceration and atrophy, mild anemia, occasional anorexia, nausea, mild abnormal liver function, weight loss and hypertension. Lung cancer incidence rate increased after long-term exposure to cadmium.

matters needing attention

1. Cadmium poisoning patients should eat a light diet, and eat more nutritious and digestible juices or semi juices to supplement the water consumed by human body, such as soup, drink, porridge and so on. 2. It is suitable to eat the food with the functions of clearing away heat, generating body fluid and nourishing yin. 3. Should eat vegetables and fruits rich in vitamins and cellulose.