What Is Asbestosis Disease?
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Asbestosis disease is a breathing disorder caused by breathing in asbestos fibers. After a long peroid of accumulation of these fibers in your lungs, they can cause scarring of lung tissue. And that is the reason why the abestosis symptoms include severe shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain, and lead to heart problems.
Like all the other asbestos-related diseases, asbestosis is a latent disease. This means that asbestosis disease will develop many years later after a one’s initial exposure to asbestos. Typically it takes about 15 years or more years, before the asbestosis symptoms start to show.
Who can get asbestosis disease? In fact practically anyone who has had direct or secondary exposure to asbestos or asbestos-containing products can develop asbestosis disease.
But of course, not everyone who is exposed to asbestos will develop asbestosis, but according to study, everyone who develops this asbestosis disease has been exposed to asbestos.
Those who are at the highest risk work or have worked at jobs where they encountered asbestos regularly. Those occupations which are of high risks include shipyard workers, railroad employees, power plant employers, steel mill workers, oil refinery workers, contractors/construction workers, firefighters, and those employed at vermiculite or talc mines or in factories that produce asbestos-containing products.
Even family members of those working in the above occupations, have known to develop asbestosis disease too. It is because the former brought back home asbestos particles on their work clothes or their hair.
Asbestosis disease can also happen to anyone who live in communities near an asbestos mine or in the vicinity of a factory that manufactures asbestos or asbestos-containing products. It is advisable to consult your doctor if you lived near an asbestos factory or mine and suffer from those mentioned asbestosis symptoms.
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How frequently does asbestosis develop into diseases such as lung cancer or mesothelioma?
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4 Comments
August 19th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
August 19th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I'm so sorry about what you, your family and your Dad are all going thru. I'll keep you all in my prayers.
Twenty (20) years ago my Dad died from lung cancer. At least that's what the Doctors called it back then. My Dad was a Cosmetic Chemist who breathed in asbestosis fumes that were heated to 700 degrees in a machine in the building he worked in. When he was diagnosed with cancer, the company he worked for, quickly hired a company (with men dressed from head to toe in special suits) to dismantle everything so they could not be sued. My Dad was present when the men came and asked them why they were covered to dismantle everything when it was completely cold, with no temperature. My Dad was told that asbestosis, even in a completely cold stage, was still very dangerous. When my Dad said that he breathed the fumes in for over 10 years, when the machine was heated to 700 degrees, the men didn't know what to say to him. He then revealed to them that he now had lung cancer.
Again, please accept my condolences and I'll keep all of your family in my prayers…….Bright Blessings……
August 19th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
This would depend on the severity of the asbestosis, i.e. some sufferers can have a mild widespread scarring of the lungs over a life time. However smokers who continue smoking after they have been diagnosed with asbestosis have a fifty five percent higher chance of developing cancer and mesothelioma – particularly if the person smokes more than 20 per day.
Tobacco smoke and asbestos both contribute to each other’s cancer-causing carcinogenic effects, hence, both risk factors combined is more dangerous than the effects of one risk factor alone.
May 18th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Lung Cancer scared the hell out of me that is why i do not smoke cigarettes anymore.~*-