Cotton pneumoconiosis

Since the use of cotton and other plant fiber agricultural textiles and weaving fabrics in the early civilized activities, humans have had the problem of cotton dust exposure. With the emergence of a large number of industrialized textile industries, the occupational exposure to cotton dust has caused people health problems Attention. The large-scale cotton and linen textile mills produce a large amount of cotton dust during the basic production process of unpacking, blending and carding, which are the main sources of occupational exposure. People who are exposed to cotton dust for the first time or occasionally exposed to high concentrations of cotton dust can experience ldquo; mill fever rdquo; (mill fever), which manifests as chills, muscle and joint pain, dry cough, fatigue, fever, similar to the flu after hours of exposure to cotton dust Early symptoms. It is now known that this is actually organic dust toxicity syndrome (ODTS). A small number of workers exposed to cotton dust experienced a decline in pulmonary ventilation function within half an hour after exposure, and progressively worsened during the work week, which may be accompanied by wheezing, consistent with occupational asthma.