Asbestos - health risks

In this second article of a series, we will cover the health risks associated with exposure to asbestos.
Exposure to asbestos can cause that a number of health problems including, lung cancer, mesothelioma, asbestosis, and other types of cancer.
Asbestosis is a chronic lung affected, can produce shortness of breath, breath, cough and even permanent lung damage.
Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer of the thin membranes, the chest and abdomen. While very rarely is it also very serious.
The people at risk for these diseases are all that was exposed to at some point of their lives to asbestos. However, most people to asbestos are not sick. Only those who constantly usually exposed to develop symptoms for a long time. Most of these people are usually those who have a job, you work with need or to asbestos in the course of the day.
Since the early 1940's millions of people exposed to asbestos. Those were the first workers signs of asbestos of related health problems, in the shipbuilding industry, mining asbestos and milling, the manufacture of asbestos textiles, insulation work, demolition workers, drywall workers and firefighters worked. Today improved labour practices and regulations present danger asbestos in these industries less likely.
Although it is generally assumed that most seriously sick people from asbestos are those who have suffered from long-term exposure, there are cases of those who have had only brief exposure, which are also ill. The problem is asbestos exposure related diseases can take from 10 to 40 years to show. As a child in school at the age of 13 can develop no symptoms not made, until he or she has passed at age 50 years.
There is also some evidence that suggests that family members of those who work in asbestos related fields with asbestos related diseases due to the asbestos fibres can descend marketed shoes and clothes in the House of the workers. This type of exposure is called Paraoccupational exposure. To reduce risk, should the workers exposed to the asbestos are around this wash their clothes and change, before you get to come home. It is also recommended that you first as shower.
How big is the risk? Not all workers exposed to asbestos, develop health problems. It has to do with the type of exposure. Asbestos, the encased and break into the atmosphere likely to not apart is presented less a threat than asbestos which is not included. Furthermore, the general health of workers in the game comes as well. A worker, which already has with related health or whoever smokes is more likely to suffer from asbestos related disease. Also, the type must the asbestos, which the worker is exposed to a large effect on the health of workers. Some forms of asbestos are more dangerous than others, depending on the concentration and the duration of exposure.
In our last article of this series, we are about how go you can determine whether you related health problem could have an asbestos and if yes, what you do, however.

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