What is the first symptom of silicosis?

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Silicosis, also known as silicosis in clinic, belongs to the highest incidence of pneumoconiosis. The main reason is that human body inhales free silica dust for a long time. The patient developed extensive nodular fibrosis in the lung after the illness. After people get sick, the disease is divided into several stages clinically. The symptoms of patients in different stages are different. Let's understand it together.

What is the first symptom of silicosis?

For one-stage silicosis patients, when receiving X-ray examination, it can be found that the hilar shadow is significantly increased, the lung texture is thickened, abnormal distortion, accompanied by the existence of reticular shadow. At the same time, sparse nodular shadows can be seen in the middle and lower fields of the two lungs, especially on the right side. The degree of emphysema and pleural hypertrophy was not obvious in most patients.

Some patients may have no abnormal symptoms in the early stage, or the symptoms are not obvious. But with the development of the disease, the symptoms of patients will gradually increase. Patients may have reflexive cough due to illness, but the degree of cough and the amount of sputum are related to the severity of respiratory tract infection, but not consistent with the severity of silicosis. Some patients have sputum and blood, if a large number of repeated bleeding, need to consider combined with tuberculosis or bronchiectasis.

Once people are diagnosed with silicosis, the dust work they are engaged in should be stopped immediately. At the same time, we should pay more attention to the timely selection of professional and formal hospital treatment, and do a good job in the prevention of related complications. Usually pay attention to wear masks, eat less salt, away from alcohol and tobacco and all kinds of spicy food.

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For silicosis patients, in the first stage, it is not too serious, if at this time can actively choose professional regular hospital for treatment, then the treatment is not too difficult. Therefore, for patients who have been diagnosed, we should pay attention to timely leave the dust environment, symptomatic treatment, and strive to get rid of the disease as soon as possible.