Treatment pneumoconiosis in Birstonas

Group of chronic lung diseases developed due to prolonged inhalation of industrial dust. Pneumoconiosis is characterized by progressive diffuse fibrosis of the lung tissue. In the early stages of the development of the disease, patients complain of shortness of breath, dry cough, stabbing pain in the sternum, under the shoulder blades and between them. Over time, pain and cough from episodic become permanent, weakness, sweating appear, patients lose weight, complain of dyspnea at rest, lip cyanosis. The end phalanges of the fingers and nail plates may be deformed, the risk of developing respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary heart increases. Pneumoconiosis are accompanied by chronic bronchitis, sometimes tuberculosis, silicotuberculosis, pulmonary vascular erosion, bleeding, the formation of bronchial fistulas. Dangerous complications are bronchiectasis, asthma, emphysema, spontaneous pneumothorax, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, etc. Treatment requires an abrupt cessation of contact with harmful dust, relief of symptoms, switching to a healthy diet, going through a course of wellness and tempering procedures, preferably in spa-resort conditions twice a year.