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March 2, 2010
I was shocked to read repeatedly on your site that bugs called grain weevils are not harmful to humans. If you did the proper research, you would find that inhalation of dust from the grain weevil causes a serious illness in humans called hypersensitivity pneumonitis, which results in pulmonary fibrosis and is FATAL. I know this because I have this illness, which I contracted from an infestation of grain weevils from a box of dry pet food. If you look up hypersensitivity pneumonitis in any medical textbook, you will find that Miller’s Lung, caused by the grain weevil, is one of the causes of this fatal disease.
Goldy G.
Dear Goldy G.
We will research this condition and link to findings on the web. Here is what we found upon researching Miller’s Lung.
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hypersensitivity pneumonitis seems to be caused by REPEATED exposure to dusts, not just an exposure one time. One of the main treatments is simply staying away from the dust.
Posted 04 Mar 2010 at 10:28 am ¶Thanks so much for providing this comment. We are not physicians, and we are unable to make any professional diagnoses, but we couldn’t quite swallow the claims being made in the original post.
Posted 04 Mar 2010 at 10:36 am ¶A link to a very easy to read information page on hypersensitivity pneumonitis… http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec04/ch051/ch051b.html It pretty much looks like its a rare case when this disease, which is caused by an allergy to specific dusts, actually ends up being fatal.
Posted 04 Mar 2010 at 2:48 pm ¶Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is an inflammation of the lung (usually of the very small airways) caused by the body’s immune reaction to small air-borne particles. These particles can be bacteria, mold, fungi, or even inorganic matter. Grain Beetles are not Vectors of this disease…. right??
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