据英国《每日邮报》报道，一名美国黑管(又名单簧管)乐手因30年未清洗他的乐器，患上了一种罕见的肺炎。这位68岁、未透露姓名的亚特兰大乐手已被“萨克斯管肺”折磨一年。木管乐器中滋生的霉菌造成了他的过敏症状，包括哮喘和咳嗽。乐器清理之后，病症才能缓解。
亚特兰大埃默里大学医院的玛丽莎•沙姆斯医生解释，乐器中的霉菌造成了该男子的过敏。他每周演奏黑管数次，每次他都吸入霉菌。医生原以为该男子是对曲霉免疫过度，但听说他吹奏黑管，便对他进行了肺部X光检查。照影显示，他的肺部充满粘液，已造成大量阻滞。医生随后发现他对两种霉菌过敏，而且他的黑管簧片上还还有另一种霉菌――外瓶霉。
沙姆医生还表示，该男子口服类固醇并清洁他的乐器之后，他的健康情况有了明显好转。据认为，细菌在未清洁的乐器中能够存活数小时、甚至数日。因此专家建议乐器需要定期消毒。
Clarinet player who didn't clean his instrument for 30 YEARS develops 'saxophone lung' from fungus
A clarinet player developed a rare form of pneumonia because he failed to clean his instrument for 30 years.
The unnamed 68-year-old man from Atlanta, U.S., suffered from ‘saxophone lung’ for a year.
The condition is an allergic reaction to a fungus that grows inside wind instruments.
It causes symptoms including wheezing and coughing and symptoms will continue until the instrument is cleaned.
Dr Marissa Shams, from the Emory University Adult Asthma, Allergy and Immunology Clinic, explained that the man was having an allergic reaction to mould inside the instrument, NBC News reports.
Dr Shams, who presented the case at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, explained that the man was playing his clarinet several nights a week and that each time he was breathing in the fungus.
The patient’s symptoms did not respond to inhalers, steroids or antibiotics so doctors initially thought he was suffering from an excessive immune response to a fungus called Aspergillus.
However, when they heard about his clarinet playing they carried out a chest X-ray that revealed his lungs were full off mucus and blockages.
They then discovered he was allergic to two fungi and that the reed of his clarinet was contaminated with another mould ? Exophiala.
‘There was very impressive fungal growth on those,’ Dr Shams told NBC News.She added that once he had been given more oral steroids and cleaned his clarinet, his health improved dramatically.
This clarinet player is not the first to suffer the ill effects of a dirty instrument.In March, an English bagpiper, John Shone, 78, told how he nearly died after picking up a lung infection from his bagpipes.
It is believed germs can survive for hours, or even days, on wind instruments that are not cleaned.As a result, experts recommend that they are regularly sterilised.(MailOnline)
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