Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Since the late 1800's asbestos was removed and used for commercial purposes. The use of asbestos have increased significantly during the Second World War and since the beginning of 1940 million Americans exposed to asbestos dust working in areas where risks were unknown at the outset. There is widespread exposure to asbestos by workers in shipyards, mines and mills, producers of products containing asbestos, workers in the heating and construction, trade and other people and an increased risk of developing mesothelioma is the result. .

Today, the U. S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sets limits for acceptable levels of exposure to asbestos at work. However, the British government of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said formally that any threshold for mesothelioma must be at a very low level and it is widely agreed that if such a threshold does exist, it can not currently be quantified. For practical reasons, HSE not to assume that this threshold exists. People who work with asbestos wear personal protective equipment to reduce their risk exposure.

The risk of asbestos-related disease increases with greater exposure to asbestos and longer exposure time. There are also people with only brief exposures have developed mesothelioma. On the other hand, not all workers who are heavily exposed develop asbestos-related diseases. Family members and others living with asbestos workers have an increased risk of developing mesothelioma, and possibly other asbestos-related diseases. This risk can arise from exposure to asbestos dust came on clothing and hair of asbestos workers.

For the occasion of exposure to asbestos fibres family, asbestos workers are usually required to shower and change their clothes before leaving the workplace.

The combination of smoking and asbestos exposure significantly increases a person's risk of developing cancer of the air passages in the lungs. The Kent brand of cigarettes used asbestos in the filters for the first years of production in the years 1950 and some cases of mesothelioma have resulted. Smoking cigarettes does not seem today to increase the risk of mesothelioma.

There is no cure. Close monitoring (routine X-rays or even pleural biopsy) for mesothelioma is loaded. Home Oxygen is often necessary to relieve shortness of breath. A maintenance treatment of symptoms with respiratory secretions treatments to remove the lungs by postural drainage, chest percussion and vibration. Drug aerosol to clarify the separation May be prescribed

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