Asbestos Lungs
Asbestos Lungs Cancer and Its Symptoms
Asbestos Related Lung Disease
Asbestos is a group of minerals that occur naturally as bundles of fibers which can be separated into thin threads. Asbestos has a superior industrial advantage chemical and mechanical properties, beside as a well heat and chemical resistance, it also non conductivity. For decades, asbestos has been widely used in many industrial products, including cement, brake linings, roof shingles, furnace, millboard, textured paints, flooring products, textiles, and especially for a wide variety of insulations.
At the beginning of asbestos popular era, million people were exposed to asbestos when they’re working in factories, mills and their own houses. Mostly people were unaware exposed to this deadly mineral because beside asbestos fibers are invisible, tasteless and odorless, health problems caused by asbestos fiber also have not known yet. More than 20 years later after the symptoms appeared, the world realized that inhalation or swallow a certain amounts of asbestos fibers could cause the serious deadly asbestos lungs cancer disease and other illness.
Asbestos fibers remain in the body and easily penetrate body tissues and may deposit themselves in airways and in the lung tissue. Once the fibers are lodged in the body, they will cause inflammation which may result cancerous tumors. When inhaled, asbestos fibers lodged in the pleural lining of the lungs and called asbestos lungs cancer. Asbestos lungs cancer is a kind of mesothelioma disease. It’s the most common form of malignant mesothelioma and takes around 60 to 70 percent of all mesothelioma cases.
The asbestos lungs cancer or also known as Pleural Mesothelioma symptoms may include:
- Coughing
- Shortness of breath
- Lower back pain
- Difficulty swallowing
- Sweating
- Fever
- Weight loss
- Fatigue
- Swelling in the upper body
- Muscle weakness
- Pain in the side of the chest
Because the asbestos lungs cancer symptoms are generic and resemble with other disease symptoms, beside review of medical history and asbestos exposure experienced, it also needs an advance physical examination such as x-rays, CT scan and MRI to ensure what exactly disease is.