NI farmers are being urged not to ignore even the slightest of symptoms of lung disease as part of a new joint campaign by the NI Agri-Rural Health Forum and Farm Safety Partnership to promote ...

Each year, more than 300 people in Northern Ireland die from work-related illnesses, according to HSENI. The organisation is using the Balmoral Show to spread the crucial message of lung health and ...

Farmer's lung is a disease caused by an allergy to the mold in certain crops. Farmers are most likely to get it because it's usually caused by breathing in dust from hay, corn, grass for animal ...

Lijo Illipparambil, a pulmonary critical care expert at Temple Health. "Like Farmer's lung. There's also Bird Fanciers' lung," says Dr. Illipparambil. "There used to be a Wine Growers lung." ...

Other causes. It could be that a virus or bacteria has infected your lungs. This is different from an allergic reaction. Your doctor will usually call that pneumonia. If you don’t treat ...

Farmers and farm workers are being encouraged to 'act quickly' on signs of the lung disease COPD due to respiratory exposures encountered on the farm. Studies on lung diseases in agriculture have ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Studies on lung diseases in agriculture have shown evidence that farmers are at an increased risk of developing COPD due to respiratory ...

In one patient, who was severely ill, a lung biopsy was obtained which showed a pattern of alveolitis and interstitial fibrosis. The serum of both patients gave a precipitin reaction to an extraction ...

AN interesting suggestion has been made by Jackson and Yow elsewhere in this issue of the Journal that farmer's lung "resembles Loeffler's syndrome, for, at times, it manifests the triad of ...

Dairy farmer, Ciarán McDonald played sport while spending long hours on his 350-stock farm, but little did he think he would require a lifesaving double lung transplant. He began to feel very unfit in ...

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Methods: Using the 1993–7 enrolment data from the Agricultural Health Study, we conducted a cross-sectional study of occupational risk factors for farmer’s lung among ∼50 000 farmers and farm spouses ...