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What are the symptoms of copper poisoning?
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1. Acute copper poisoning
Cause the disease is a variety of reasons, often because of crystalline copper sulfate burns or accidental misuse caused by food is also contaminated water and food caused mainly due to smelting copper caused by environmental pollution. State regulations allow copper dust, copper smoke concentration of 0.01mg / L.
Acute copper poisoning began to produce gastrointestinal mucosal irritation symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hemolysis is particularly evident, urine hemoglobin, followed by jaundice and arrhythmia, severe renal failure and uremia can occur, shock.
2. Chronic copper poisoning
(1) respiratory system long-term exposure to copper dust, copper smoke workers, the most common symptoms of the respiratory cough, sputum, chest pain, chest tightness, and some hemoptysis, nasopharyngeal mucosal congestion, nasal septum ulcers, and even can cause pneumoconiosis and metal smoke heat.
(2) eye contact with copper salt can occur conjunctivitis and eyelid edema, severe cornea can occur when the turbidity and ulcers. Engaged in bullets steel production workers prone to copper cataracts.
(3) animal skin experiments show that copper dust can cause contact and allergic skin lesions, local skin redness, edema, ulcers, reported cases, skin sensitization patch test positive rate of 88%, the anti-allergy treatment can be Improve.