Dangers of using asbestos material and tips reducing exposure asbestos fibers
Asbestos still mostly used for roof home building. In the long run continuously inhaling asbestos can cause health risks. Asbestos enters the body through inhalation.
Impact of hazards of inhaling asbestos fibers can not be seen in the short term. Sometimes the symptoms appear within 20-30 years after inhaling asbestos fibers first time.
asbestos fibers are inhaled and get into the lungs can cause asbestosis (scarring in the lungs), lung cancer and mesothelioma (a malignant cancer that attacks the lining of the mesothelium).
Risk of this disease will increase equivalent to the large number of asbestos fibers are inhaled. Besides the risk of lung cancer from inhaling asbestos fibers greater than cigarette smoke.
This is caused asbestos fibers consist of small, easy to separate,so if the fiber is flying in the air and inhaled by the body would be harmful to health.
Usually asbestos fibers can cause health risks if it enters the body through inhalation. Small amounts of asbestos fibers in the air that is inhaled while breathing person will not cause pain.
Average person just to asbestos within number of very small and low risk to health. some studies shown that asbestos-shaped sheet not cause significant health risks.
People who are highly at risk of having health problems from asbestos mostly working in the mining or industry.
But that does not mean the roof made from asbestos is not dangerous totally, only a lower risk of health problems. Various forms of asbestos materials create different levels of health risk.
If the asbestos fibers within a stable form like a sheet and conditions are still good, then a small health risk. However, if the sheet is already damaged, perforated or wrong in terms of its use, then it could pose a higher risk.
Building materials are generally used as asbestos cement sheets (fibro), drainage, chimney pipes, roofs or other building boards. Since the 1960's and 1970's, asbestos fibers mostly used by the public as the roof insulation.
- Spraying water into asbestos sheets to prevent soil, dust or fibers in the air.
- Closing the asbestos with plastic sheets or tarpaulins to avoid exposure the weather.
- Prevent children to play on a roof made of asbestos Daria.
- Replace the asbestos sheets that have been damaged or perforated.
- As much as possible to limit the space between the asbestos premises rooms in the house.
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