Public Health & Respiratory Illness

Question 1

What is hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

Answer 1

Pneumonia (inflammation in the lungs) caused by hypersensitivity (allergies to/ autoimmunity) to inhaled organic compounds

Question 2

What is pneumoconiosis?

Answer 2

Pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs) caused by inhaled dust particles.

Question 3

Name two types of occupational lung disease.

Answer 3

1. Hypersensitivity pneumonitis a.k.a. extrinsic allergic alveolitis
2. Pneumoconiosis

Question 4

List types of hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Answer 4

• Farmer’s lung
• Bird breeder’s lung
• Cheese worker’s lung
• Mollusc shell hypersensitivity
• Paprika splitter’s lung

Question 5

List types of pneumoconiosis

Answer 5

• asbestosis
• silicosis
• coal worker’s lung
• berylliosis

Question 6

What happens to people with chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis?

Answer 6

Effects are in the lungs:
-extensive fibrosis
- honey-combing & air
trapping

Question 7

Give a brief overview of asbestos (not diseases relating to it, just asbestos)

Answer 7

• white, brown & blue forms
• white is safest
• usually safe unless disturbed
• banned in 1999
• in 2011 50% UK houses had asbestos

Question 8

What are the complications of asbestosis?

Answer 8

• pleural disease
• mesothelioma
• lung cancer

Question 9

What is mesothelioma?

Answer 9

cancer that affects the lining of the lungs, tummy, heart or testicles
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Question 10

Name the two factors that have a synergistic effect on the relative risk of lung cancer

Answer 10

• Smoking

- Asbestos exposure