How is black lung disease treated?

How is black lung disease treated?

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Unfortunately, there's no specific treatment for black lung disease. People whose lung impairment has reached the point that they would benefit from supplemental oxygen, or extra oxygen at home, would certainly receive oxygen. Other than that, there's unfortunately no specific medicine that reverses the damage that's been done to the lungs. The damage that's done could be thought of as a scar, and just as you might have a scar on your arm that doesn't go away or doesn't heal, scars, or fibrosis inside the lungs don't go away either.