Wow,,,, I see a lot of houses here in Chennai, India with asbestos sheets as the roofing for them and even some very big bungalows has asbestos sunshades in front of their houses and some do have them in their balconies and several other places of their residence. It is really shocking for me to see and realize the amount of asbestos utilization in my country day in and out by the common man apart from the industries, plants and factories. I was not in my country for the past 7 years or so. May be that is the reason odd things are getting pointed out by my eyes and wit then and there with ease which was not realized earlier when I groomed up from here being part of this community.
The important aspect here is the exposure to asbestos fibers to this much levels is seriously not good for anyone’s health as they may lead to lethal tumors and other serious health related problems in case of their continuous exposure.
Yes. When you cannot see the micro particles of asbestos fiber liberated into the atmosphere with your naked eyes, you cannot even realize these micro fragments entering into the nostrils along with the breathing air and getting settled in the tracts of tracheal tract, linings of the lungs and other parts. These particles present in these places for a prolonged time will start blocking the passing fluid’s free flow and also causes serious inflammatory diseases in the walls of the areas where they are settled and rupture them faster. The chances of getting mesothelioma variety of cancer is very higher for a person who is continuously exposed to an asbestos environment for years together.
Lucky aspect is only after so many years the person have the chances of ending up in tumour related problems…. So it is better and a person always have the chance to realize the fact and switch over to safer operating conditions as soon as possible so as to prevent the risks.
Smoking aggravates the problems and adds on to the havoc by increasing the possibilities of the person catching cancer related problems along with continuous exposure to asbestos fibres.
The cruel aspect of the mesothelioma type of cancer is the victim will not have any symptoms of the cancer for a long time even until it gets developed into the stages of affecting the organs of the body so the victim feels it all of a sudden attack and when he approaches the physician he or she would be told that there is no escape from the lethal disease as the tumor has already surpassed the initial curable therapy stages and its sporadic in nature. The victim gets no chance or time to realize, treat and eliminate the danger in the earlier stages. But fortunately ongoing research work is in progress by various dedicated group of great scientists and research committee world wide to find out and diagonize the disease at the earlier stages. With the success of the ongoing research lots of innocent lives of the human kind could be saved in near future.