Occupational Lung Disease

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Contents 1 More Specific Terms 2 Introduction 3 History 4 More General Terms 5 Additional Terms 6 References

More Specific Terms

• asbestosis
• bagassosis
• berylliosis
• byssinosis
• coal workers' pneumoconiosis
• grain fever (organic toxic dust syndrome)
• hypersensitivity pneumonitis; extrinsic allergic alveolitis; pigeon breeder's lung; farmer's lung; allergic pneumonitis
• Monday morning sickness
• progressive massive fibrosis
• silicosis
• silo filler's lung
• Welder's lung

Introduction

• All forms are associated with mucous hypersecretion.

• inorganic dusts

• antimony

• pneumoconiosis
• storage batteries, solder, ceramics, glass, plastics

• arsenic

• lung cancer
• manufacture of pesticides, pigments, glass, alloys

• barium & barium salts ( BaO, BaSO4, BaCO3)

• pneumoconiosis
• catalyst, mud drilling, electroplating

• cadmium dust

• pneumoconiosis, obstructive airway disease
• electroplating, battery manufacture, welding, smeltering, aluminum soldering

• cement dust

• obstructive airway disease
• construction, manufacture of cement blocks

• chromium & chromium salts (CrO3, CrF2)

• lung cancer
• corrosion inhibitor pigment, metallurgy, electroplating

• iron dust

• pneumoconiosis
• steel & foundry workers, welding

• mica

• pneumoconiosis
• insulation, roofing shingles, oil refining, rubber manufacture

• phosphorous, chlorides, sulfides

• obstructive airway disease
• manufacture of fireworks, agricultural chemicals, insecticides, pesticides

• rock dusts

• pneumoconiosis
• miners, tunnelers, quarry workers

• vanadium pentoxide

• obstructive airway disease
• welding electrodes, additive to steel, by-product in ash from oil burning

• organic dusts

• coal dust

• pneumoconiosis
• mining

• coke oven emissions

• pneumoconiosis, obstructive airway disease, lung cancer
• coke ovens

• graphite

• pneumoconiosis, obstructive airway disease
• steel manufacture, lubricants, pencils, paints, stove polish

• cotton dust, flax, hemp

• obstructive airway disease
• manufacture of yarns for linen, rope & cotton, cotton workers, waste fiber processing

• grain dusts

• obstructive airway disease
• farmers, grain workers, ship workers (carrying grain)

• moldy hay

• hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• farmers, animal attendants

History

• information about the work process

• job title less important that job process, job tasks

• materials to which a person is exposed
• frequency, duration & intensity of exposure
• non-work related exposures
• temporal pattern of signs & symptoms

• improvement away from work place?

• coworkers affected with similar process

More General Terms

• lung disease

Additional Terms

• chemical pneumonitis
• Monday morning sickness
• progressive massive fibrosis

References

1. Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed) Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 757-760
2. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th ed. Isselbacher et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1994, pg 1180

occupational lung disease