Many textile mills and fiber producing factories located in LMICs have high rates of chronic respiratory disease caused by byssinosis.The term "brown lung" is a misnomer, as the lungs of affected individuals are not brown. Byssinosis is also referred to as cotton workers lung, mill fever, brown lung disease, and Monday fever. History
In 1971, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) set a permissible exposure limit (PEL) of  1-mg/m3 (total dust) for cotton dust in work places. Later in the 1978 OSHA developed the Cotton Dust Standard which aimed to prevent occupational respiratory disease, such as byssinosis, through medical monitoring of employees. The PEL of cotton dust was set to 0.2 mg/m3 of airborne dust. This was considered the lowest level that could be measured by the vertical elutriator cotton dust sampler.OSHA regulators hoped that the Cotton Dust Standard Act would help decrease the impact of dust exposure of employees and reduce occupational respiratory diseases. However, a NISOH sponsored committee remained apprehensive about this standard as an earlier study conducted by NIOSH found that byssinosis diagnoses were brought on by cotton dust levels as low as 0.1 mg/m3 meaning that there is still a risk for the development of byssinosis for cotton dust exposure under the PEL. Today, NIOSH has set a recommended exposure limit (REL) of cotton dust to less than 0.2 mg/m3 for up to a 10-hour workday. Symptoms
Symptoms of byssinosis can include:
Cough with sputum
Dyspnea
Breathing difficulties
Chest tightness
Wheezing
CoughPatients can develop these symptoms after a few hours of exposure at minimum.
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