Extrinsic allergic alveolitis

[David Humphries]

Aka - Mushroom workers' lung ...............and others

 

 

Tony we're DOOMED !

 

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Ok, title was probably a bit stuffy.

 

What this is really about, is exposure to & lung contamination from certain animal and vegetable dusts.

 

 

Symptoms may include some of the following;

 

cough

breathlessness

sweating

sore throat

headache

nausea

occasional fever

loss of weight

lack of energy

In general, flu-like symptoms

 

So, do we as an industry take this seriously enough and protect ourselves with appropriate PPE ?

 

 

 

Discuss........

 

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[RobArb]

Your also forgetting fumes from saws and chippers too

 

Good point though, also reminds me of that story about a man who had a tree growing in his lungs after inhaling a seed!

 

And planes too! I hate planes!

 

What are we supposed to do though? Were gas/face masks? It'd be way to hot and horrible

 

 

?mmmm?

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[daveindales]

I sometimes wear a decent face mask when ringing up certain woods, eg dead elm. Or when chipping really dusty stuff. Last week, I chipped some philadelphus which was hard as hell and dusty, so I wore a mask when chipping that.

[David Humphries]

What are we supposed to do though? Were gas/face masks? It'd be way to hot and horrible

 

 

Risk assess the task at hand (more often) and consider the particulate atmospere around us,

that we probably nearly all (if the truth be known) either ignore or don't perhaps think about ?

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

you know when you should have been wearing a mask because you get home to find your bogeys are like bricks!

 

seriously do worry about this aspect though, was airspading that really got me thinking about it though.

[Treecreeper1961]

The modern day farmers lung waiting to happen perhaps? Miners of the last century suffered from the same sort of issues. Does make you wonder.

[David Humphries]

Does make you wonder.

 

that's good

 

 

 

 

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[Pedroski]

Over past few years I've been exposed to dust from cutting blocks and pavers with a disc, lime (hydralime), cement, ivy, hedgecutting, chainsawing, possibly cadmium from research work at uni. Sometimes I'd wear a mask to start, get too uncomfortable and bin it, then carry on just holding my breath or making sure the wind is blowing in the right direction.

 

Over past 12 months I've been having probs with shortness of breath, chest pains, coughing and fatigue, and ended up with pneumonia a short while back, and am currently being seen by consultants at hospital for more chest xrays and high res CT scan, after already having had cardiac investigations (anyone had a cardiac catheterised angiogram? Lovely!).

 

There might be a connection between my symptoms and my work! At times I feel 45 going on 95, but then I get straight through the shortness of breath crap and work away as normal. What you think?

Edited March 3, 2012 by Pedroski

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Over past few years I've been exposed to dust from cutting blocks and pavers with a disc, lime (hydralime), cement, ivy, hedgecutting, chainsawing, possibly cadmium from research work at uni. Sometimes I'd wear a mask to start, get too uncomfortable and bin it, then carry on just holding my breath or making sure the wind is blowing in the right direction.

 

Over past 12 months I've been having probs with shortness of breath, chest pains, coughing and fatigue, and ended up with pneumonia a short while back, and am currently being seen by consultants at hospital for more chest xrays and high res CT scan, after already having had cardiac investigations (anyone had a cardiac catheterised angiogram? Lovely!).

 

There might be a connection between my symptoms and my work! At times I feel 45 going on 95, but then I get straight through the shortness of breath crap and work away as normal. What you think?

 

what do I think! I think youve got a severe dose of industrial dust etc!