What are the symptoms of silicosis?
Whist there are no initial symptoms of Silicosis the complaint usually develops into a dry morning cough, following this periods of breathlessness first during exercise which worsens until it is present at rest. Silicosis is the one form of pneumoconiosis that predisposes tuberculosis, when additional symptoms of fever, loss of weight, bloody sputum may occur. In the presence of gross lung destruction the blood circulation from the heart to the lung may be embarrassed and result in heart failure.
