Asbestosis Disease And Asbestosis Symptoms

by Doug Lester

Asbestosis disease is a breathing disorder caused by breathing in asbestos fibers. After a long peroid of accumulation of these fibers in your lungs, they can cause scarring of lung tissue. And that is the reason why the abestosis symptoms include severe shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain, and lead to heart problems.

Like all the other asbestos-related diseases, asbestosis is a latent disease. This means that asbestosis disease will develop many years later after a one's initial exposure to asbestos. Typically it takes about 15 years or more years, before the asbestosis symptoms start to show.

Who can get asbestosis disease? In fact practically anyone who has had direct or secondary exposure to asbestos or asbestos-containing products can develop asbestosis disease.

But of course, not everyone who is exposed to asbestos will develop asbestosis, but according to study, everyone who develops this asbestosis disease has been exposed to asbestos.

Those who are at the highest risk work or have worked at jobs where they encountered asbestos regularly. Those occupations which are of high risks include shipyard workers, railroad employees, power plant employers, steel mill workers, oil refinery workers, contractors/construction workers, firefighters, and those employed at vermiculite or talc mines or in factories that produce asbestos-containing products.

Even family members of those working in the above occupations, have known to develop asbestosis disease too. It is because the former brought back home asbestos particles on their work clothes or their hair.

Asbestosis disease can also happen to anyone who live in communities near an asbestos mine or in the vicinity of a factory that manufactures asbestos or asbestos-containing products. It is advisable to consult your doctor if you lived near an asbestos factory or mine and suffer from those mentioned asbestosis symptoms.

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