PNEUMOCONIASIS - SOURCE
🎯Byssinosis - Cotton fiber
🎯Berylliosis - Beryllium
🎯Bagassosis - Sugar cane dust / Bagasse / Molasses
🎯Siderosis - Iron dust
🎯Stannosis - Tin dust
🎯Bird fancier's lung - Avian/Bird droppings
🎯Famer's lung - Mouldy hay
🎯Asbestosis - Asbestos
🎯Silicosis - silica dust
🎯Compost lung - Compost
🎯Anthracosis - Coal dust
🌟Antigents involved in causing disease🌟
✳️Bagassossis - Thermoactinomyces sacchari
✳️Compost lung - Aspergillus
✳️Farmer's lung - Micropolyspora faeni
✳️Chemical worker's lung - Isocyanate
🌟Some important points in occupational diseases🌟
➡️ Silicosis may cause Tuberculosis as it damages the macrophages in alveoli
➡️ 2% propionic acid is used to control Bagassosis
➡️ Anthracosis may lead to progressive massive fibrosis of lungs
➡️ Benzol is assosciated with leukaemia
➡️ Most common occupational cancer is squamous cell carcinoma of skin
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