Introduction to asbestos-10 key facts

1. Asbestos is a natural mineral that has been used for thousands of years!

2. The asbestos mineral is extracted from the Earth.

3. The mineral asbestos in its natural state is harmless.

4. Asbestos becomes potentially harmful to health when it is operated or used in the manufacture of other products, essentially once it is in the dust or form fibrous and able to be inhaled or swallowed, it becomes potentially harmful to health and can cause the disease of asbestos.

5. Exposure to dust and by way of inhalation or swallowing asbestos fibers can lead to the development of one or more of the following asbestos diseases: malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer asbestos; asbestosis, pleural thickening and pleural plaques.

6. The malignant mesothelioma and asbestos lung cancer are, as their names suggest, forms of cancer and need no treatment.

7 Asbestosis is scars on the lungs can cause problems with the respiratory system and while that not so aggressive as malignant mesothelioma and cancer of asbestos lung he gets generally worse over time. Although not usually a fatal disease in itself, it often combines with other health problems to become a serious problem of health.

8 Pleural thickening is a linings of the lungs thickening of and can cause symptoms of pain and shortness of breath. Although not a deadly disease in itself is evidence of exposure to asbestos and, therefore, a marker of the risk of developing one of the most serious diseases asbestos that is malignant mesothelioma lung cancer or asbestos.

9 Pleural plaques are plates of fibrosis (scarring) of the lungs and are often calcified. They rarely cause symptoms of pain and shortness of breath. Although not a deadly disease in themselves, they are, such as pleural thickening, they are evidence of exposure to asbestos and, therefore, a marker of the risk of developing serious asbestos diseases.

10. Despite the pleural plaques representing the scars on people suffering from lungs are more entitled to compensation for them. This is despite the fact that during the 20 years before 2006 compensation, has been paid by the insurers for this condition! It is important here to distinguish, and that is if the pleural plaques are causing symptoms eg pain and shortness of the victim has the right to compensation.

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