Respitatory Disorders Caused by Farm Work-Thresher's Pneumoconiosis
10.2185/jjrm.28.22
- VernacularTitle:農作業に起因する呼吸器障害 (農夫肺等) に関する研究
- Author:
Koji Isomura
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1979;28(1):22-28
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Of all types of farm work in Japan, the threshing of rice, in which dust is generated in large quantities, produces the worst influence on the respiratory organ, and the author termed this symptom “thresher's bronchitis.” The repetition of thresher's bronchitis gives rise to chronic bronchitis. There have been the autposy cases of elderly farmers who suffered from pneumoconiosis, as he had been exposed to dustin over 30 years of threshing work. The symptom might well be called “thresher's pneumoconiosis.”
