Asbestos Exposure: Real Danger

October 26, 2009 | By admin | 84 Comments »


Asbestos is a naturally occurring substance found. This powerful, flexible fibers are made. Because the fibers of the heat or chemicals, and a poor conductor of electricity is stored in the security sector has been used widely. It is estimated that more than 5000 products, or they are asbestos.

Six types of asbestos, only four are used as commercial. The chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite and anthrophyllite vardır. Among them, 99% of the Americas, or white asbestos accounts crysotile used. Natural state or to maintain good control and products, there is no asbestos poses a real danger. That’s when these issues have been released by the asbestos fibers and to be broken.

Asbestos fibers are very fine and accurate. This fiber is 2000 times finer than human hair. The diameter of 0.3 microns or one millionth of a millimeter of gold in the five micron meter. It is not visible to the naked eye or microscope.
When published, these fibers remain in a long time and great distances can be moved. These fibers are inhaled, lung tissue and stick them on the outside are not expelled by breathing or coughing. Some of the lungs, others remain to withdraw pleural lining.

Exposure to asbestos causes disease and is developing over a long period of time. Asbestos related diseases of asbestosis, pleural plaques and lung cancer are available. Lung cancer or mesothelioma and lung itself, lung cancer, cancer in May or have a liner. Between 20 and 50 of this cancer can take years to develop.

A recent article in British newspaper developed mesothelioma is highlighted in the case of a hospital consultant. Exposure to asbestos can not be unmade. You know that without the information that the asbestos is accidentally such as living in the vicinity of the plant has been exposed to asbestos in May have been leaking into the atmosphere.

In this new situation, Professor Peto mesothelioma in the early twenty-first century, will continue to show growth. He said, “everyone in the United Kingdom and said the lungs of asbestos. This is an important exposure and the level.”

A history of exposure to asbestos, if people smoked also know there is a greater risk of lung cancer are available. A survey conducted in 1992, lung cancer in 2602 individuals were interviewed. Exposed to asbestos and the third and eight still smoked. U.S. lung cancer to cigarette smoking, asbestos is five times more exposed to the risk proposed. If you smoke, the risk increased by 11 factors. Smoking and exposure to asbestos increases the risk of developing lung cancer is 52 times that of the general population.

How exposure to asbestos lung cancer long pending because of delays and was due to smoking will continue to be important reasons to know. However, mesothelioma, asbestos exposure, which causes a very high value on the basis of legal claims have been.

For the future, the United States and Europe, such as asbestos related diseases will increase gradually to a peak. Worrying, but the conflict zones. Middle East, where he drank a lot of a building or buildings, was drunk during the invasion of Iraq, how many asbestos released into the atmosphere, you have the slightest idea?

However, 9 / 11 when the final catastrophe of asbestos fibers. When the destruction of the twin towers, where 400 tons of asbestos were structure. The toxic cloud that hovers over Manhattan, including asbestos was high. That’s over 100,000 people are estimated lived exposure to asbestos. The largest exhibition is the first answer. Deborah Reeve died after 9 asbestos-related diseases in the first / 11 happened. He became the first person to respond. He died in March 2005 in mesothelioma. This is because the specialist take considerable time to develop mesothelioma. They concluded that exposure should be as it was excessive.

One study showed results that were active during and after recovery and the World Trade Center collapse Rescue workers have respiratory problems, 70%. Six years have shown that people suffering from respiratory problems, which continue to work after the same disease.
“Six years after the attacks,” Nadler, “We presented evidence that chronic respiratory diseases of thousands of people have become more and more, a large variety of rare cancers, has accumulated a mountain,” he said .

I hope that experts predict that within a few years, the annual report of new cases of asbestos disease and intensive fall will be about. If not, can wake up a sleeping dragon?

Mesothelioma is a devastating disease. Early recognition improves long-term survival rates.

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