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What Causes Severe Pain In Mid Back Along With Blood Vomiting?

My husband has pain along the middle of back. It started on one side and now feels like it goes across the spine to the other side. Right now it hurts to take a deep breath. He has coughed up some blood and tissue. He was a welder for 40 years, he has degenerated disc, spinal stanoses, and scoliosis.
Mon, 7 Mar 2016
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Hi & Welcome.
I appreciate your concern for your beloved husband.
Features are suggestive of occupational hazard involving the lungs due welding.
From the history given your husband seems to be suffering from lung disease due to chronic exposure to welding. The welding process contains various hazardous agents such as carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, ozone, phosgene, tungsten, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, manganese, nickel, silver, tin, and zinc.
So, the chronic exposure to such harmful agents can result in lung function impairment, obstructive and restrictive lung disease, cough, dyspnea, rhinitis, asthma, pneumonitis, pneumoconiosis, and cancer of the lungs.
I would therefore advise you to take your husband to a physician or pulmonologist for proper clinical evaluation and certain lab tests such as Chest Xray or CT scan for proper diagnosis and treatment.
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What Causes Severe Pain In Mid Back Along With Blood Vomiting?

Hi & Welcome. I appreciate your concern for your beloved husband. Features are suggestive of occupational hazard involving the lungs due welding. From the history given your husband seems to be suffering from lung disease due to chronic exposure to welding. The welding process contains various hazardous agents such as carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, ozone, phosgene, tungsten, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, manganese, nickel, silver, tin, and zinc. So, the chronic exposure to such harmful agents can result in lung function impairment, obstructive and restrictive lung disease, cough, dyspnea, rhinitis, asthma, pneumonitis, pneumoconiosis, and cancer of the lungs. I would therefore advise you to take your husband to a physician or pulmonologist for proper clinical evaluation and certain lab tests such as Chest Xray or CT scan for proper diagnosis and treatment.