What is 'Popcorn Lung' ? Any relation to Pulmonary Sarcoidosis ?

One of America's favorite snack foods - popcorn - is at the center of a national health controversy. The chemical diacetyl, used to make artificial butter flavoring, has been linked to a respiratory disease called "popcorn lung" in hundreds of people. Labor unions and prominent occupational health scientists are calling on federal authorities to set an emergency standard for the chemical in the workplace.

Sarcoidosis, also called sarcoid (from the greek 'sark' and 'oid' meaning "flesh-like") or Besnier-Boeck disease, is an immune system disorder characterised by non-caseating granulomas (small inflammatory nodules) that most commonly arises in young adults. The cause of the disease is still unknown. Virtually any organ can be affected; however, granulomas most often appear in the lungs or the lymph nodes. Symptoms can occasionally appear suddenly but usually appear gradually. The clinical course varies and ranges from asymptomatic disease that resolves spontaneously to a debilitating chronic condition that may lead to death.

No relation. Popcorn lung is a syndrome/condition where some nutty guy pops like 4 bags of popcorn a day. Meanwhile he huffs the popcorn aroma deeply into lungs. After twenty years or so he developed a cancer of some sort. Is it a pulmonary sarcoidosis? I don't know. But i'm starting to not like popcorn anymore.

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