Pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis?

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Now in autumn, the weather is relatively dry, and environmental pollution is currently more serious, so dust, many people will have lung problems, then, more serious, there may be pneumoconiosis, today we come to understand, pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis symptoms?

Pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis?

(1) Cough many early pneumoconiosis patients, when cough is often not particularly obvious, but, with and more and more serious, many pneumoconiosis patients will become chronic bronchitis, and even to the late when there will be lung infection, at this time, cough will be significantly aggravated.

(2) Expectoration is a common symptom, even in the case of few cough, pneumoconiosis patients will also have expectoration, the reason is caused by the continuous removal of dust by the respiratory system, the general amount of expectoration is not much, mostly gray thin sputum, coal worker's pneumoconiosis patients sputum is mostly black, which can clearly see coal dust particles, mostly large fibrotic lesions caused by ischemic dissolution and necrosis. Asbestos corpuscles were detected in the sputum of workers exposed to asbestos and patients with asbestosis. If combined with pulmonary infection and chronic bronchitis, the amount of sputum increased significantly.

(3) There is no correlation or parallel relationship between chest pain and pneumoconiosis stage or clinical manifestation, especially in silicosis and asbestosis. The location of chest pain is different and often changes, mostly limited; The main complaint of pneumoconiosis patients is dull pain, which is also described as distending pain and acupuncture like pain. Part of the causes of chest pain are the involvement of fibrotic lesions, especially pleural fibrosis and pleural thickening, the traction and tension of visceral subpleural bullae.

matters needing attention

1. After the diagnosis of pneumoconiosis, the workers should be transferred from the dust work post. The patients with severe illness should rest or arrange recuperation. Attention should be paid to prevent respiratory tract infection in winter and spring. Patients should work or rest under medical supervision, organize health gymnastics, Taijiquan and other activities to enhance their physique. Give symptomatic treatment to relieve symptoms and pain. It is very important to prevent, discover and treat tuberculosis. 2. Drug treatment (1) commonly used drugs: quetiapine, tetrandrine and aluminum preparations can delay the progress of pneumoconiosis（ 2) Traditional Chinese medicine treatment: mainly has the function of promoting qi and blood circulation, clearing lung and moistening dryness, improving immunity, increasing lung ventilation function and delaying the progress of pulmonary fibrosis. Commonly used drugs are Ligustrazine, tanshinone injection, Ginkgo biloba preparation, Tanreqing, etc.