PNEUMOCONIOSIS

WHAT IS PNEUMOCONIOSIS

• Pneumoconiosis is a condition due with mineral dust and other harmful gases going inside the lungs

CAUSES

• Pneumoconiosis can be caused by breathing harmful mineral gases
• Pneumoconiosis relies on how much time you have been breathing in coal dust

SYMPTOMS

• Chronic Coughing
• Shortness of Breath

PREVENTION

• Stay away from coal dust
• Don't breath in harmful gases
• Don't inhale mineral dust

WHERE DOES IT EFFECT IN THE HUMAN BODY

• Pneumoconiosis effects the lungs mostly
• The lungs get fibrosis which stiffen up the lungs
• This makes it hard to breathe
• It damages the lungs by walls of air sacs inflaming

CURE

• Pneumoconiosis has no known treatment
• Doctors help the symptoms by lessening the breathing difficulties

DEATH TOLL

• There are 24, 206 people dieing from this disease

SOURCES

• Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatments. "American Lung Association" online www. lung.org/lung-disease/pneumoconiosis/symptoms-diagnosis-and.html December 10, 2013
• Pneumoconiosis (Black Lung Disease) "American Lung Association" online www.lung.org/lung-disease/pneumoconiosis December 10, 2013.
• Pneumoconiosis "Drugs.com" online www.drugs.com/healthguide/pneumoconiosis.html December 10, 2013
• Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis " PubMed Health" online www.ncbi.nlm.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH001187/