What are the types of silicosis?

What are the types of silicosis?

Roy Artal (Pulmonologist and Critical Care Physician) gives expert video advice on: Am I at risk for breathing silica dust?; What are the symptoms of silicosis?; If I work with silica dust, can I expose family or friends? and more...

The three types of silicosis are chronic, accelerated, and acute silicosis. Chronic silicosis is the most common type of silicosis, and develops in people who are exposed to this over years and years and years. It typically develops after a lag period of about 15 to 20 or more years. Acute silicosis is a type of lung phenomenon or lung problem that develops in people who are exposed to just a very short, massive burst of silica, and these are people who tend to develop symptoms very rapidly, within the order of weeks and months. It can become symptomatic very quickly. Accelerated silicosis probably fits in somewhere between acute and chronic, in which people are exposed to higher quantities of silica, but not so much as to cause the acute type of silicosis. These are individuals who might become ill with respiratory problems and respiratory conditions within a shorter span, sometimes as short as several years.