What are the dangers of Asbestos Exposure

War is the mother of invention and this is born out by the sudden increase in the use of asbestos during the Second World War. Environmental pressure forced laws through in the 70's the constrained the use of asbestos in industry.

More laws were passed during the 80's by the EPA controlling how and where asbestos could be used by industry. If you ask people today, most of them are aware of the harmful nature of asbestos to those who are exposed to the fibres.

Asbestos bundles that occur naturally can be split into individual asbestos fibres. Asbestos has some remarkable properties; it is fire and chemical resistant as well as not conducting electricity. With it's unbeatable properties of heat and chemical resistance many uses for asbestos were found in the home and industry.

Asbestos based products were used in most walks of life, from lagging boilers to brake pads for cars. It would be well to assume that any building built before the 1990's have been constructed with asbestos or materials containing asbestos. The use of asbestos is legal as long as that use means that the asbestos will not come into contact with people or the environment.

Humans can die from a number of incurable and untreatable ailments associated with coming into contact with asbestos. Asbestosis is probably the most common asbestos related disease, it is often seen as a severe shortness of breath caused by the lining of the lings becoming inflamed by the asbestos fibres.

Shortness of breath, cough, and pain in the chest due to an accumulation of fluid in the pleural space are often symptoms of another asbestos related ailment called mesothelioma. Pleural mesothelioma is a cancer that affects the lining of the lungs, pericardial mesothelioma affects the heart.

The health hazards of asbestos have only been realised in the last 30 years by the legal and medical profession. Asbestos disease can take several decades after the initial exposure to finally appear in the victim; it is for this reason that it took medical professions many years to establish the link between asbestos and the diseases that it is responsible for.

After the medical profession proved the link between asbestos, litigation by lawyers has caused industry to revaluate the use of asbestos and it's use has declined. Follow the right safety guidelines and it is legal for manufacturers to use asbestos.

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