Asbestos - miracle of the mineral threat to the mesothelioma
During the Second World War, asbestos was welcomed by many as a miracle mineral glass. Almost everything can be built or manufactured from this mineral. The construction as an additive for the strengthening of the cement and plastics. The asbestos fibers are separated into thin lines, which they do not have electricity and no heat or chemicals.
The four main types of asbestos are: brown with amosite fibers, Anthophyllite fibers with gray, white Christie, crocidolite and blue. A crimped by chrysotile fibers, while the three other master than the fibers. These fibers break easily in the dust, and the slippage in the air. They stick to the skin, clothing, and can easily be inhaled or statement.
Emporgeschnellt use of asbestos during the Second World War. Shipbuilding plenty of asbestos used in the cargo and ships to support the insulation of the boiler, pipes, steam and hot water pipes. Asbestos was the miracle building material, because it was easy to obtain, processed and transported.
After the Second World War of asbestos in the cars used shoes and inserts break coupling. Asbestos is its way into residential and industrial area of building materials, water supply, sewage materials, ceilings and floor coverings, materials and vermiculite garden for only a few.
In the years 1970, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has banned the use of asbestos in several products can rid of asbestos fibers into the environment during use, that the discovery of threats to the health of ‘Inhalation of asbestos dust. The rules governing the use of asbestos and the concern for public opinion since 1970 have a noticeable decline in the use of asbestos in the United States.
In 1989, all new uses of asbestos were banned by the Environmental Protection Agency, if all the old practices before this year were still allowed. The EPA has proposed that for the inspection of schools and damaged asbestos issue or eliminate him in the barriers to protect them. Vermiculite, widely used in horticulture is a concern of the EPA has recommended that the use of the outdoor area, which is the amount of dust used, and for the maintenance of the vermiculite damp.
Asbestos can cause serious threats to health, such as cough, injury of the lung, respiratory and lung cancer. Most people are not sick in the early stages of development, but usually takes the issue away, often to jobs, such as mining, milling, manufacturing of asbestos in the building. Fire brigade, démolisseurs, to remove the signs, plaster, and all other workers in the occupations associated with the destruction of buildings, ships and cars are also in the threats and dangers of asbestos.
Over a period of several years to asbestos can cause very serious health problems, such as mesothelioma. The mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer in the membrane, wallpapered numerous cavities of the body, including the lungs, abdomen and heart, and was at the exhibition in the asbestos dust. In mesothelioma, the cells of the Mesothelioms metastasize and damage adjacent organs and tissues.
Risk of the development of a mesothelioma takes a long time, often as long as twenty-five or thirty years before the onset of symptoms completely. Not all workers who have been exposed, the development of diseases caused by asbestos, but the workers who have been exposed, in the fibers can be on their clothes, hair, shoes and skin home their families. To address this risk, most industries, workers need to bathe and change clothes before the finish work.
Numerous studies were conducted on the risks of diseases caused by asbestos. The results of such a study on the dangers of tobacco consumption and exposure to asbestos is extremely dangerous.