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Other Respiratory Tract Disorders
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Idiopathic Intersitial Lung Disease

 
Physical Findings

Physical findings seen in those patients with nuisance-type symptoms are similar to the findings of chronic rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma.

 

Ocular: Puffiness, redness, tearing.

 

Nasal: Boggy mucosa, clear to colored discharge, crusting of mucous, mucosal excoriation.

 

Sinus tenderness.

 

Oropharynx: Mucous discharge, redness.

 

Cervical Lymphoid tenderness (slight). Lymph nodes not enlarged.

 

Tympanic membranes may be retracted. Air-fluid levels may be noted.

 

Lungs: May have end-expiratory wheezes or rhonchi.

 

There are no unique physical findings to assist one in the differentiation between an environmental disorder and other more common disorders of the respiratory tract.