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Have A Void Opacity In My Left Upper Lung. Exposed To Mushroom Mold. Have Fever, Cough, Ear Infection. Related To Mushroom Mold?
i HAVE A ovoid opacity in my left upper lung and have been exposed to mushroom mold inside a building i work in and also birds nests were found.Last week i had a high fever and cough and ear infection. I took asntibiotics and the fever went away but not the dry cough. Could it be related to the mushrtoom mold or birds nests. I am 30 and never smoked before.
Mon, 1 Jul 2013
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An opacity in in a chest x-ray with cough and fever usually due to either due to a community acquired pneumonia or pulmonary tuberculosis. Now, you had said that you are exposed to mushrooms, it can cause a syndrome called acute hypersensitivity pneumonitis but in this case there is confluent opacities bilaterally. Now, rarely a fungal infection also can occur due to mold exposure.
An opacity in in a chest x-ray with cough and fever usually due to either due to a community acquired pneumonia or pulmonary tuberculosis. Now, you had said that you are exposed to mushrooms, it can cause a syndrome called acute hypersensitivity pneumonitis but in this case there is confluent opacities bilaterally. Now, rarely a fungal infection also can occur due to mold exposure.
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You probably need a bronchoscopy by a Pulmonologist/chest specialist as also a sputum examination for fungii and hyphae to detect any fungal infection.The cause of the lung cavity needs to be determined and treated.
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