Asbestos: a threat to the environment
Asbestos was widely seen as insulating material in the construction of many years. Only until recently, the new materials have been on the market, such as glass fiber, instead of asbestos.
The disease can occur when large quantities of fine asbestos fibres collected in the lungs. This deadly disease is commonly known as asbestosis. The disease is often not in the workers in the production or processing of asbestos. Various professions, the pipes are asbestos, shipbuilding and construction industries. In addition to use in isolation, it is also in extinguishing blankets and clothing for safety, gas masks, as filler in plastic and cement and floor tiles. Today, the demolition of homes and refurbish workers, based on the work of old buildings is a high risk of toxicity of this substance.
One of the most lethal toxicity of asbestos is its effect on respiration and the pathogenesis of lung cancer. The lungs are the main target groups of the toxicity of asbestos. Breathing can always difficult and laborious, which may cause lung cancer. At the beginning of the individual can not live without a chronicle, dry cough. To the extent that the disease progresses, the symptoms can be short of breath and a decrease in tolerance to the pressure of chest pain. These symptoms are not exclusively in the amiantose, but a history of the exhibition helps the doctor, the right diagnosis and acute illness.
A rare form of lung cancer, seems unique among the people who Asbestos is known as mesothelioma. This cancer button on the wall of the lung or the abdomen. The Association of asbestos exposure and malicious mesothleioma was well documented. Approximately 80% of patients with mesothelioma have along history of asbestos exposure. The combined roles of genetics and environment in the pathogenesis of Mesothelioms was also inspired by his family reunification. The studies show an association between the nucleotide polymorphisms a simple, leading to a disruption of DNA repair is an increased risk of mesothelioma. It is important to identify the genetic risk factors for malignant mesothelioma. The Chronicle toxic asbestos fibers in the lungs can be carcinogenic by: mechanical effects, such as disruptions in the separation of chromosomes; generation of reactive oxygen species and the local and systemic immunosuppression. Identification of the specific risks of genotypes provides the best estimate of population risk of disease resulting from exposure defined, the improvement of knowledge about the origins of cancer in the lung, and a contribution to the direction of the early detection of the disease in people with high risk. It is a malignant tumor, which can not be shown to the largest number of 20 to 40 years after the release of the substance. This type of malignant tumor has a high fatality rate. The relationship between exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma is so narrow that the emergence of this malignant tumor may be a reason for the repair.
Unfortunately, it is not yet the subject of a cure for asbestosis. It is imperative that a historical detail about the work and all other possible sources of exposure to toxic dust. Note that the issue might have been several years ago. The substance can be inhaled through the clothing of another person who worked with asbestos. A finding of the abnormal chest X-ray may propose asbestos exposure. This does not necessarily mean that you have lung disease asbestosis. Not all people who have this development are inevitable for lung diseases and cancer. The disease itself is not diagnosed, if you are in the exhibition history, the X-rays indicative price chest and physical symptoms and debilitating lung fibrosis, which is characterised by an abnormal scarring in the lungs.
If you are young or middle-aged workers who work with asbestos, it is important to the safety precautions recommended. Wearing face masks and breathing admitted the tools needed by the filter asbestos fibers. Be sure all parts of your body covered, and to ensure the minimisation of contact with the outside world in the clothing that you wear when you work with asbestos.