J67.50: Mushroom worker’s lung Without acute exacerbation

Your lungs are reacting too severely to specific dusts. As a result, the tissue in your lungs is inflamed.

You need lungs to breath. When you breathe in, the air with the oxygen passes through the airways to the lungs. The respiratory tract ends in the air sacs in the lungs. Oxygen passes into the blood in the pulmonary alveoli (air sacs). The pulmonary alveoli and the airways are surrounded by supportive tissue. This supportive tissue consists of connective tissue.

Your immune system is reacting too severely to specific substances. If you inhale these substances, the connective tissue in your lungs then becomes inflamed. If you inhale these substances constantly, the connective tissue in your lungs then becomes constantly inflamed.

In your case, the triggers for this inflammation are dusts from fungi and molds.

Additional indicator

On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.

  • G: Confirmed diagnosis
  • V: Tentative diagnosis
  • Z: Condition after
  • A: Excluded diagnosis
  • L: Left
  • R: Right
  • B: Both sides

Further information

Note

This information is not intended for self-diagnosis and does not replace professional medical advice from a doctor. If you find an ICD code on a personal medical document, please also note the additional indicator used for diagnostic confidence.
Your doctor will assist you with any health-related questions and explain the ICD diagnosis code to you in a direct consultation if necessary.

Source

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