My brother 14, my sister 15, me 16 2yrs ago wen our adoptive parents decided that they wanted to put new insulation in our attic. They paid us to remove the old insulation. beings that the house was an old log cabin & built in the early 1900′s or late 1800′s it was filled with asbestos. My little brother was teh one doing most the work. but i helped him bag it up & vacume it out. (my sister was outside throwing it away) they gave us masks to use but beings im soo small my mask did nothing for me & i would have a dark blob on the inside when i took it off from inhailing it. i had to stop after 3 days because it made me sick & i still see little grey specks when i spit sometimes. but a few months later my brother was taken to the hospital & they had to ship him out on a helicopter to the closest ICU. he was in the hospital for a week & i think he had to have surgery. the doctors said he had water around his heart (pericardial effusion) & he almost died. was it cuz the asbestos?

The material that surrounds the water heater and is also in the walls as insulation, contains asbestos and is dangerous for our lungs my mom says, my mom gets words mixed up sometimes , do you think she means asbestos or something else ? I worry about it day and night because I’m into healthful living, but I don’t want to worry about things that my mom is wrong about because she gets words mixed up all the time. What do you think she could mean by this, I would ask her but she gets really mad whenever I talk and she tells me to shut up ? She said she was going to get it replaced or torn out but she is waiting until she has the money. We are all coughing every day it seems like, this could be coincidence but I am worried about everyone’s health.
Our house is a condo and it was built pretty recently , like just a few years ago.

For about a week i worked with my friends dad fixing up an old house. i removed old insulation, and put new insulation in. i was wondering if this short amount of time working with insulation had any effect on my lungs. At another time i spent probably 10 hours total stripping and handling asbestos wire with intent to sell it to a scrap yard. i was unaware that it could cause damage until a friend of my dads told me. how much damage do you think that did? i am wondering all of this because cross country running season is starting soon, and i am looking for ways to increase lung capacity, and strengthen my lungs, is there any way to repair the damage done?
thankss :]
i wasent wearing a mask because i diden tknow it was harmful at the time

From what I have heard, once you are exposed to asbestos dust, there is NO getting it out of your lungs. However, what are the best ways to TRY and get at least some of it out of your lungs, over a long period of time? Should one develop cancer, I know that intake of antioxidant-rich food can help rid the body of free radicals, to try and help out the situation, but just wondering about other ways to "cleanse" the lungs (if there is such a way).

Recently my father and I were ripping out insulation from our old 1920′s home, and we think there’s a darn good chance, the insulation was made from zonolite/vermiculite (dangerous dangerous stuff, as you may have heard about tonight, on CBC radio, if you live in Canada). Suggestions?

I work at a golf course. In the building where the golf carts are stored there is a yellow-looking insulation that is hanging along the walls and ceiling around the entire room. The building is old; I think it was built prior to the 1970s. Is this asbestos? I am not sure, but I would like to confirm if it is. Here is a picture I took today:

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How was asbestos used in insulation? Years ago as a kid I lived in an old home where the ceiling was falling down and the blown in cotton like insulation was falling into teh air so I raked it all out.. what are the chances that this was asbestos? My lungs were conjested for a long time and I coughed a lot but currently I have excellent lung function since I don’t smoke. I was 14 years old or so. Thank you.
My lungs are perfectly healthy at this point in time. I do not cough or develope mucus to be coughed up and I can inhale a great deal of air. All I need to know is what insulation that contains asbestos looks like. The insulation was cotton-ish paper like and created a fine dust. I’m almost tempted to go back there and see if I can get it tested (although someone else lives there now).
I understand that the blown in type insulation may be asbestos but if it isn’t then what else could it have been?