{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "kind": "condition",
  "id": "pneumoconiosis",
  "name": "Pneumoconiosis",
  "category": "chronic",
  "sources": "Asbestosis - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555985/ · ICPC-3 (WONCA International Classification of Primary Care, 3rd edition) class RD70.00 - condition scope only, no dose · No dose - referral pathway, no medicine given in primary care · Pneumoconiosis - disease-level clinical article (pneumoconiosis-full.txt)",
  "review_status": "reviewed",
  "verified_against": "No dose - referral pathway, no medicine given in primary care · Pneumoconiosis - disease-level clinical article (pneumoconiosis-full.txt)",
  "verified_date": "2026-08",
  "treatments": [
    {
      "id": 1424,
      "generic": "Stop the exposure, rehabilitate, refer (Recognition & Referral)",
      "line": 1,
      "is_adjunct": false,
      "form": null,
      "strength_mg": null,
      "adult_dose": "Chronic interstitial lung fibrosis from years of inhaled occupational dust - silica, asbestos, coal - which is Egypt's construction, quarrying and textile workforce. There is no cure. What actually helps: the patient must avoid any further exposure to the dust, and that comes first; a patient who smokes should be helped to give up; and pulmonary rehabilitation, run in the community or at home, is what treats the symptoms and builds exercise tolerance. Refer to a chest physician for diagnosis, monitoring and occupational-health reporting.",
      "adult_duration": "Refer, with advice",
      "dose_source": "No dose - referral pathway, no medicine given in primary care",
      "rationale": "Chronic interstitial lung fibrosis from years of inhaled occupational dust - silica, asbestos, coal - which is Egypt's construction, quarrying and textile workforce. There is no cure. What actually helps: the patient must avoid any further exposure to the dust, and that comes first; a patient who smokes should be helped to give up; and pulmonary rehabilitation, run in the community or at home, is what treats the symptoms and builds exercise tolerance. Refer to a chest physician for diagnosis, monitoring and occupational-health reporting.",
      "cautions": [
        "No drug row is listed here because the article names no drug for this disease: it states plainly that pneumoconiosis has no cure and that the outlook is poor once the fibrotic phase is reached, and it asks for the patient to be kept under review for progression, with symptoms treated as they arise. Where the disease reaches its end stage, the article raises transplantation as a possibility. (Pneumoconiosis - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf, NBK555902)",
        "Pulmonary rehabilitation is the prescription. As the article describes them, most programmes combine breathing re-training, exercise training at low or high intensity, endurance work and strength work, and many add health education, psychosocial support for low mood, and advice on nutrition; most run for eight weeks. (Pneumoconiosis - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf, NBK555902)",
        "Treat the COPD that comes with it - the article notes that emphysema or COPD is commonly superimposed on pneumoconiosis. That IS drug treatment, and it is listed under COPD rather than here. (Pneumoconiosis - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf, NBK555902)",
        "RED FLAG - Progressive breathlessness in a worker with a dust-exposure history, signs of respiratory failure or right heart strain, or occupational asbestos exposure, which carries an increased lung cancer and mesothelioma risk needing surveillance."
      ],
      "peds_mgkg_low": null,
      "peds_mgkg_high": null,
      "peds_max_mg": null,
      "peds_basis": null,
      "peds_unit": null,
      "peds_note": "Children follow the same pathway: recognise and refer. No primary-care medicine is implied.",
      "peds_min_weight_kg": null,
      "peds_max_weight_kg": null,
      "peds_age_min_months": null,
      "peds_age_max_months": null,
      "peds_age_bands": null,
      "peds_doses": null,
      "brands": [],
      "condition_id": "pneumoconiosis"
    }
  ]
}