Silicosis Treatment
Silicosis - Medical Treatment & Recommendations
The prognosis for patients with chronic silicosis is generally good. Acute silicosis, however, may progress rapidly to respiratory failure and death. Therapy is intended to relieve symptoms, treat complications, and prevent respiratory infections. It includes careful monitoring for signs of TB. Respiratory symptoms may be treated with bronchodilators, increased fluid intake, steam inhalation, and physical therapy. Patients with severe breathing difficulties may be given oxygen therapy or placed on a mechanical ventilator. Acute silicosis may progress to complete respiratory failure. Heart-lung transplants are the only hope for some silicosis patients.
Silicosis Medical Care and Recommendations:
- Most all experts agree all patients should prevent further exposure to free silica dust
- Silicosis patients need to also avoid other dusty environments especially areas of high concentrations of heated exhaust fumes
- Silicosis/ Lung Specialists often advise patients to quit smoking and provide help in smoking cessation efforts.
- Silicosis patients get immunized against influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia.
- No specific therapy for silicosis cures or alters the course of the disease.
- According to the latest literature, there are some experimental approaches to silicosis treatment which include whole-lung lavage, aluminum inhalation, and corticosteroids. Corticosteroids are included in this list because evidence as to its benefit in chronic silicosis is insufficient.
- Many silicosis patients that have latent tuberculosis infections (ie, positive tuberculin skin test result without active disease) are treated with isoniazid
- If the doctors diagnosed silicosis with active tuberculosis (ie, Mycobacterium tuberculosis identified in smear or culture) then that patient is usually treated very aggressively with the appropriate TB drugs.
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