Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Extrinsic allergic alveolitis - Symptoms and diagnosis

If a person has developed hypersensitivity to inorganic or organicmaterial, may have the following signs and symptoms:
-fever
cough
-chills
-shortness of breath.
These symptoms usually occur 4-8 hours after contact, and lastsseveral days if the exposure is complete incetata.Recuperarea canbe taken several weeks.
If the person maintains contact with Ag allergy months, years,suffering the interstitial fibrosis lungs. Symptoms in this case may include:
-breath short, ineffective during physical efotului-tachypnea
cough with sputum-
-fatigue
-weight loss.
Progressive disease can lead to respiratory failure.

Common Diseases:
farmer-lung
barn-lung by dust shell
ventilator-lung by paprika
brinzarului-lung, lung malt.
- Textile workers, rubber veterinarians.

diagnosis

Positive diagnosis is on the physical examination and history,because the signs and symptoms can be varied by Ag the default,call the specialist and other useful tests:
-Ac-present blood tests and specific immune response to allergen
-chest X-ray
lung-capacity.
If the diagnosis is unclear can be a lung biopsy.

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