Warning: The risk of pneumonia from mold in the trumpet instrument

A newly discovered agent can cause chronic pneumonia leading to death especially for those who regularly play the trumpet instrument. Currently the information is causing a stir among the global medical community.

According to the latest study by Dr Jenny King of the Great South Manchester Hospital in England , the results show that people who regularly play musical instruments such as trumpets, saxophone, trombone, and some other slightly musical instruments are at risk. Chronic pneumonia can even die later.

The cause comes from the process of using musical instruments, respiratory system of players, in particular, the breath has been exposed to a series of fungal strains, toxic fungi such as Paecilomyces variotti, Fusarium oxysporum, Penicillium , Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, Trichosporon mucoides, pink yeast and dermatitidis Exophiala , some toxins from musical instrument materials hidden in musical instruments.

Players of blowing trumpet instruments have a higher risk of chronic pneumonia, even death

The process of sucking the breath to blow the instrument, unknowingly putting these fungi into the lungs of the player, they persist for a long time and cause chronic inflammatory phenomena.

In the long term, the phenomenon of chronic pneumonia will cause lung scarring, pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis, causing respiratory system, lung function depletion and the result is death.

Currently, a new preliminary medical study shows that there are about 300 toxic chemicals, including dust, wood mushroom chalk, mushrooms in straw, bird feces, feathers are the main causes of inflammatory diseases. Chronic lungs, in which mold, toxic fungi that hide in slightly trumpet instruments are the most recently discovered agents.