you can start with his primary care provider but a pulmonologist is the lung specialist that he may eventually need to see. there are many many different causes of a cough so see the primary care provider first. hi things to think about can he remember what product he was using when this first showed up? i think your find his myocarditis was from the pneumonia from what i can read about it. below is some info i have found about his problem and i think this has transgressed from there. chemical pneumonia is an unusual type of lung irritation. pneumonia usually is caused by a bacteria or virus. in chemical pneumonia inflammation of lung tissue is from poisons or toxins. only a small percentage of pneumonias are caused by chemicals. many substances can cause chemical pneumonia including liquids gases and small particles such as dust or fumes also called particulate matter. some chemicals only harm the lungs; however some toxic materials affect other organs in addition to the lungs and can result in serious organ damage or death. chemical pneumonia is only one type of lung inflammation. other types of lung infections are viral pneumonia and bacterial pneumonia. chemical pneumonia is a type of lung irritation. many substances can cause chemical pneumonia including liquids gasses dust fumes and lung aspiration. symptoms and signs of chemical pneumonia include burning eyes lips mouth throat dry cough nausea abdominal pain chest pain headache and pleuritis. treatment of chemical pneumonia depends on the toxic and amount of exposure. hi for me unless he’s the boss then this is his health were talking about time for a new start in another job away from chemicals fumes dust and all the rest that goes with the job working in a body shop. if you love your husband like you do then there is no other way he can go he may have a big love for his job but his job in slowly killing him . has he thought of still being in the industry but working from the other side ie not in the workshop. its either this or he works in a full face mask which would be fed by oxygen so he’s breathing clean air all the time he is in the workshop this could be a way out for him to carry on working in a body shop. as for finding what was the cause then that's how this answer started. do hope this helps in some way good luck hi his first call would be his own doctor and let him/her take it from there its either that or get him to an er. does he not wear a dust mask at work with all this dust? he really needs to watch this i had a college many years ago a tiller just as dusty he went off one and we never sore him again his close buddy when he come back said he was dead it was from the dust it had built up in his throat causing it to close end of story. so please be warned. good luck to add to the question yes he uses a dust mask at work however the fumes and dust do not get completely caught by the mask. in 2004 he was hospitalized due to a combination of pneumonia and working in the body shop. basically the pneumonia didn't get better and developed into myocarditis and he wound up in the heart unit at the local hospital over christmas. it all started with a cough much like the one he has now. he was put on all kinds of antibiotics for bronchitis and pneumonia but none of them seemed to work and he was put on an inhaler at one point which made his heart race and eventually led to me taking him to the e. r. at 4 in the morning on christmas eve where we were told he was having a heart attack at the ripe old age of 28. later it was discovered that it was not a heart attack but myocarditis. we are trying to get to a specialist sooner rather than later on this and find out if he is just allergic to the chemicals in the paint/primer that is used and if so what can be done about that. a change in careers isn't really an option so we need to find some answers at this point. all suggestions are appreciated. thanks.
what doctor to see for chronic cough. my husband is a bodyman (collision repair on automobiles) and works all day with paint and primer fumes as well as the body dust that goes along with his profession. he has developed a constant cough - he can barely complete a sentence without coughing. it sounds like a bronchitis cough but always gets better over the weekend when he's not at work. then by lunchtime on monday it's back with a vengeance and he's coughing all the time. what type of doctor should he see for this cough?