My brother works for a company that installs some kind of communication wiring in ceilings of buildings. He came down sick about a month ago and doctors cannot find the cause. Nausea, heart palpitations, dizziness, fainting feeling, respiration problems etc. Doctors have ran all kinds of test and are unable to come up with anything.
My question is, could this be related to something he may have been exposed to while working, like mold or bat droppings, something along those lines? He does not fit the criteria for asbestos. I think there is a strong possibility of this. Where would he go to have this checked out? Doctors are not that interested in this theory, not that I am any way saying they are not doing their job, just that the doctors don’t seem to know how to investigate this, health wise. What test to run and all of that. Is there any agency that deals with this kind of thing? Where could he go for this?
I’ve removed about 1000 vinyl-asbestos tiles, without keeping them in tact (they were breaking)…
I hear that there is a risk when exposed to any amount of asbestos, but it was a one-time thing that lasted about 10 days…
I don’t know how much asbestos is contained in these tiles and the black adhesive under them, but I’m seriously starting to worry…
Will I be OK, or should I be worrying for the next 10-50 years of my life while an asbestos related illness begins to form?
I’ve removed about 1000 vinyl-asbestos tiles, without keeping them in tact (they were breaking)…
I hear that there is a risk when exposed to any amount of asbestos, but it was a one-time thing that lasted about 10 days…
I don’t know how much asbestos is contained in these tiles and the black adhesive under them, but I’m seriously starting to worry…
Will I be OK, or should I be worrying for the next 10-50 years of my life while an asbestos related illness begins to form?
I’m looking for a topic to write a paper about for my environmental science class. It has to somehow affect me and I’d like to write about something controversial or interesting, and possibly put some kind of spin on it so that there isn’t an obvious solution. Our ES text book has a few ideas that everybody else will be writing about but that’s really not what I want to do. The subject can’t be too broad. Here are some examples of the type of subject I’m looking for:
Lead poisoning
Radon
Cigarette smoke
asbestos
A specific nitrate or something in fertilizers
I don’t want my paper to be like everyone else’s so any help you kind folks can lend will be great.
I think the first guy means Dihydrogen monoxide…. Anyway, the other two are too general. If I was to do either of those I’d have to zero in on BPA or say, lead in the water. That’s exactly what everyone else will be doing and not interesting enough.
Any other ideas?
after he began dating me. These are what hes goes through
*cloudy thought
*mucus in the nostril (it makes it hard for him to breath sometimes)
*chest pains
*stomach pains
*vision ( he tells me it feels like hes going to go blind but it comes back and then feels like he will go blind again)
* he cant sleep when hes having this and although he tries so hard to sleep he cant while hes having these episodes
* headache
*numbness in the one arm or fingers
*numbness in leg
we have gone to the hospital they don’t know what it is
when he was born they found TB scars on his lungs but the hospital checked for that
he used to do pool construction
he also used to go into a abandoned mental institution that has asbestos in it i thought maybe it was that but he did this years and years ago
his mother did have a drug problem when he was a baby but he hasn’t suffered anything
hes 22 years old
he tells me he would rather die because he feels this intense pain in his stomach almost daily.
PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE!
My grandfather died from complications of Emphysema many years ago. He believed that it was caused by occupational exposure to chemicals, because he worked in a chemical plant. He did smoke when he was young, but quit probably in his 30′s. When he reached his 60′s he developed Emphysema, and died in his late 70′s.
Is it possible that the doctor that treated him may have misdiagnosed his condition, and what he thought was Emphysema was really Asbestoses?
My grandfather built his own house in the 1950′s, and the tile siding that was on his house was made from Asbestos. Is it possible that he may have breathed in some fibers, during the construction process of building his home?