How Do I Know if I've Been Exposed to Asbestos?
Asbestos exposure, inhalation, and swallowing—and the relationship to mesothelioma
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Asbestos has been used in products and buildings throughout the world for many generations, exposing thousands of people to its dangers. Mary Hesdorffer, a nurse practitioner and Medical Liaison for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, talks about the most common jobs where asbestos and asbestos exposure risk can be found.
The Simmons firm has compiled a list of occupation that have carried a high asbestos exposure risk. If you're worried about your exposure to asbestos, contact a mesothelioma specialist in your area as soon as possible.
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Video Transcript: How Do I Know if I've Been Exposed to Asbestos?
When we talk about exposure to asbestos, I guess what I would like to talk about is probably the work-related exposures. We have people who worked in factories where they manufactured asbestos..... where they made it into what we called “slurries”. Slurries were used to wrap pipes and wrap boilers. Plumbers were very involved in this at one time. In the Navy they sprayed it in the boiler rooms to keep the engines running strong. Asbestos was in brake pads, so people who did automotive work would inhale asbestos. Now, people ask all the time, “Well, I have peritoneal mesothelioma... does that mean I ate asbestos?” We don’t really know. We know that in pleural mesothelioma we know that you inhale the asbestos. We know that we can find asbestos fibers in the lung when they do what they call a "dissection." If they dissect an area where there is no mesothelioma they are apt to find the asbestos fibers there. We think that it is a cascading of events that you are exposed to the asbestos and somehow it is taken into the body, either through inhaling it or swallowing it, and then it begins to form neo-plastic or a cancerous type of process. We don’t know what the triggering event is that leads it into forming a mesothelioma, but we know that there is a direct relationship between patients who are exposed who develop the disease.
