Asbestos - a thin and very enemy
During the centuries, asbestos was used. Thousands of workers are the risks of this mineral has several properties, the benefits, but on the other hand people in the death.
First, the relationship between asbestos and the deaths of some workers are not clearly identified. The Greek geographer Strabo, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder noticed something unusual in relation to the workers, with the asbestos. So there was a disease in the lungs of the slaves who worked with asbestos.
Despite the evidence, disease, in connection with the use of asbestos were long ignored. Only in the course of the year 1931, the first laws were in England with the aim of creating preventive measures.
The use of asbestos
The Greek people called this mineral asbestos unite two words in Greek: a, for the non-sbestos, extinguishable. Also, asbestos inextinguible means, which can be easily understood once it on the effects of this mineral in the lungs of workers.
Asbestos was widely used because of their different properties. This is fire-resistant mineral, in some chemical reactions, and it is also waterproof. Because of this property to be fire-resistant, it has sold unreliability of the dealers, the cross - has been reported, the song from the cross where Jesus Christ was hanged - from asbestos. Since the asbestos is a presentation of old wood, it could easily be sold and the fire resistance is the perfect excuse to sell.
In the years 1800, the use of asbestos due to the increased industrial revolution. He began deployment in the world, without regard to the working conditions. More than 3000 parts of the industrial production of asbestos used in the manufacture of their products, which helped a little, the development of a disease diagnosed in persons exposed to asbestos.
The conditions for health in relation to asbestos exposure
During the centuries, asbestos was used. And during the decades, its effects were simply ignored. Doctors some deaths associated with exposure to asbestos, but it took many years before the first measures taken.
During the industrial revolution, and in the following years, the working conditions were much despised. At that time, it was not important for them, as people are working under, but at what speed and efficiency with which they can do their work. This situation has helped that the number of persons, the problems of the respiratory tract.
The problem and the threat to health in relation to asbestos is a simple measure: the inhalation of particles from the spreading of this mineral. If the particles are inhaled, it is not a danger. But the truth is that working with asbestos, it is almost impossible not to inhale the particles.
The particles attach to the inhalation into the lung tissue, leading to a type of cancer known as mesothelioma, or amiantose. The Mesothelioma is the cancer of the chest and abdominal skin conditions. If it is, it is usually too late to do anything, it is often fatal. In addition, mesothelioma, a long time in the still latent: It may go unnoticed, while 15 to 60 years.
The amiantose is a disease of the elasticity of the lungs so that it is difficult for the institutions to exchange gas, resulting in a low oxygen supply to the blood. It restricts breathing and can go unnoticed to a maximum of 30 years.
Even with the measures for the prevention of laws, the number of deaths associated with exposure to asbestos has increased. In 1968, there were 153 deaths caused by mesothelioma, but in 2003, the statistics show 1874 deaths. And it is not number one world: it is registered in the UK.