Question

Mention any two occupational respiratory disorders and their causes in human beings ?

Answer 1

Occupational lung diseases are occupational, or work-related, lung conditions that have been caused or made worse by the materials a person is exposed to within the workplace.

It includes a broad group of diseases, including occupational asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchiolitis obliterans, inhalation injury, interstitial lung diseases (such as pneumoconiosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, lung fibrosis), infections, lung cancer and mesothelioma.

These diseases can be caused directly or due to an immunological response to an exposure to a variety of dust, chemicals, proteins or organisms.