What can Asbestos do to our body?!
Question: they used it for construction materials right? is it still being use until now?
Answers: they used it for construction materials right? is it still being use until now?
Sometime in the 60's a doctor working with coal miners diseases in Duluth Minnesota and other Iron Rage areas of Minnesota took notice to the deaths caused by some mysterious agent hereto for unknown.
After interring the miners that died from this disease it was found their lungs were all but useless. The culprit, asbestos that is caused naturally in the soil but, heavy in the mines.
The asbestos fibers gets into the lungs aureole (air-ports) causing them to swell and become infected, being useless.
I worked with asbestos when I was going to college and on summer breaks, for thirteen years. We were allowed by the Whyhouser corp. to use asbestos without protection in the old days, although we complained about the breathing problems from it.
I now have asthma, emphysema and, it's getting worse. Twenty six of my friends that worked with this have passed on, it was all a secondary cause of their deaths. Wahyerhouser, paying for the medical and the deaths, showing financial responsibility, has shown them to be at fault. I simply wait for my time, I and my spouse will be number 27 and 28 the last of our crew.
its a fiber like stone. long story short it causes cancer.
Asbestos killed my grandfather.
Asbestos fibers can have a serious effect on your health if inhaled. There is no known safe exposure to asbestos and the more you are exposed to asbestos, the greater chance you have of developing an asbestos-related disease, such as lung cancer, mesothelioma (a rare cancer of the lining of the chest and abdomen lining), cancer of the stomach, intestines, and rectum.
A non-cancer-related disease associated with asbestos inhalation is asbestosis, a scarring of the lungs that leads to breathing problems and heart failure. Individuals who have helped manufacture asbestos or asbestos-containing products run a significantly higher risk of being affected by asbestosis.
The first signs of an asbestos-related disease may develop as late as 30 years after the exposure to asbestos.
ya its being used in construction sites even now, but however, the workers now are equipped with protection from it, too much exposure to asbestos can lead to asbestosis which a condition that occurs in the blood, it can lead to suffocation, asthma and if very high can lead to death.
It causes lung cancer and skin problems, It's still being used in construction, but for all I know I think it's a banned material.