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  1.                              Silicosis
  2. SYMPTOMS may include difficulty in breathing, more rapid and deeper breaths
  3. than normal, loss of appetite, chest pain, malaise, dry cough, disturbance
  4. of sleep, bluish color, hoarseness and spitting or coughing blood.
  5. CAUSES. A lung disease. May be from inhaling silica dust from sandblasting,
  6. making pottery or mining.
  7. TREATMENT. Drainage of bronchial secretions, stop smoking, medication.