How long can you live with pneumoconiosis?

Pneumoconiosis is a disease that is difficult to treat and can endanger the patient's life. However, how long a patient can live with pneumoconiosis is determined by each person's physical condition and daily care. If patients with pneumoconiosis maintain an optimistic attitude, actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment, and take good care of themselves according to the doctor's advice, they can survive for a relatively long time. The key is to have a good attitude.

1. How long can one live with stage 1 pneumoconiosis?

How long can a patient with pneumoconiosis live? This cannot be answered specifically. It depends on the treatment time and treatment method of the patient. If the patient with pneumoconiosis does not receive treatment, it is difficult to guarantee how long he or she can live. However, if effective treatment is given, pneumoconiosis can be reversed. If a person has been diagnosed with pneumoconiosis, the first thing to do is to transfer him away from dusty work, arrange work or rest appropriately, carry out fitness therapy, insist on physical exercise, improve body resistance and strengthen nutrition, pay attention to psychological treatment, and help pneumoconiosis patients eliminate fear and complacency. Active and correct comprehensive treatment has a good effect on the treatment of pneumoconiosis. We already know how long a person with pneumoconiosis can live. Once you are sick, recovery is very difficult and there is currently no cure. However, pneumoconiosis is an irreversible disease, so good care can prolong your life.

2. What is pneumoconiosis?

Pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung (called pneumoconiosis in Hong Kong and silicosis in mainland China and Taiwan), also known as pneumoconiosis and sand lung, is a lung fibrosis disease. Patients usually stay in dusty places for a long time. Due to inhaling large amounts of dust, dust accumulates in the alveoli under the terminal bronchi. After a period of time, changes occur in the lungs, forming fibrosis foci.

3. Clinical manifestations of pneumoconiosis

3.1. Cough: In the early stage of pneumoconiosis, the cough is usually not obvious. However, as the disease progresses, the patients are often complicated with chronic bronchitis, and in the late stage, the patients are often complicated with lung infection, both of which can significantly aggravate the cough. Cough is related to season, climate, etc.

3.2. Coughing up phlegm: Coughing up phlegm is mainly caused by the continuous removal of dust by the respiratory system. Generally, the amount of sputum is not much, mostly gray and thin sputum. If combined with pulmonary infection and chronic bronchitis, the amount of sputum will increase significantly, and the sputum will be yellow, sticky or lumpy. It is often difficult to cough up.

3.3. Chest pain: Pneumoconiosis patients often feel chest pain, but there is usually no correlation or parallel relationship between chest pain and the clinical manifestations of pneumoconiosis. The locations are different and often change, mostly localized. It is usually a dull pain, but may also be a distending pain, a needle-like pain, etc.