What symptom is slight pneumoconiosis?

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Pneumoconiosis is a disease of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis, which is caused by long-term dust work and inhalation of productive dust deposited in the lung. In fact, the early clinical manifestations of pneumoconiosis are not typical. What symptom is slight pneumoconiosis? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What symptom is slight pneumoconiosis?

Cough is the most common symptom in patients with pneumoconiosis. In the early stage, the cough is not obvious, but with the progress of the course of disease, the patients are often complicated with chronic bronchitis. In the late stage, the patients are often complicated with pulmonary infection, which makes the cough worse. Pneumoconiosis patients complicated with pulmonary infection, often do not have obvious systemic symptoms like ordinary people when they have pulmonary infection, and may only show obvious aggravation of cough.

Expectoration is a common symptom of pneumoconiosis patients, even in the case of few cough, patients will also have expectoration, which is mainly caused by the continuous removal of dust by the respiratory system, the general amount of expectoration is not much, mostly gray thin sputum. Most of the patients with coal worker's pneumoconiosis have black sputum, and the patients with advanced coal worker's pneumoconiosis can cough up a large amount of black sputum, in which coal dust particles can be seen obviously, most of which are caused by massive fibrosis lesions due to ischemic dissolution and necrosis.

Chest pain pneumoconiosis patients often have symptoms of chest pain, which has no correlation or parallel relationship with pneumoconiosis stage and clinical manifestations. Silicosis and asbestosis patients are more common. 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. The location of chest pain is different and often changes, mostly limited; The nature of pain is not serious, the general chief complaint is dull pain, but also described as distending pain, acupuncture like pain, etc.

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Pneumoconiosis patients should pay attention to often open windows, carry out indoor air circulation, keep the air fresh, reduce dust inhalation, prevent the disease from aggravating. Can eat more pig lung, such as fried pig lung: pig lung with, slice, sesame oil fried, with porridge. Pneumoconiosis patients with severe wheezing, more kidney deficiency, can eat walnut, wolfberry, mulberry, Cordyceps sinensis, etc.