Comments on: Mesothelioma and Me http://www.tacosntonic.com/2006/03/mesothelioma-and-me/ 2 Tacos and a Tonic, Mmm... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John http://www.tacosntonic.com/2006/03/mesothelioma-and-me/#comment-89 John Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:42:35 +0000 http://www.tacosntonic.com/2006/02/mesothelioma-and-me/#comment-89 If you leave the asbestos alone, you'll be fine. It's when you try to remove it without taking the proper precautions that you release asbestos fibers into the air. And even then you won't have enough exposure to worry about. I'll come remove the asbestos if you want. By the way, you cannot get sick from rubbing asbestos on your skin or from consuming it (or from licking it, although I agree that you should avoid doing that because it's just gross). And breathing it under normal circumstances won't harm you either. Asbestos is a naturally occuring mineral and all of us probably have inhaled thousands of asbestos fibers. Just like cigarettes, our lungs are equipped to deal with minimal exposures. But when you have heavy, sustained exposures, the lungs' defense mechanisms can't handle it and then you can get lung damage, such as asbestosis, cancer or mesothelioma. There are only 2,000 to 3,000 cases of mesothelioma diagnosed each year in the United States. It's an extremely rare form of cancer. If you leave the asbestos alone, you’ll be fine. It’s when you try to remove it without taking the proper precautions that you release asbestos fibers into the air. And even then you won’t have enough exposure to worry about. I’ll come remove the asbestos if you want.

By the way, you cannot get sick from rubbing asbestos on your skin or from consuming it (or from licking it, although I agree that you should avoid doing that because it’s just gross). And breathing it under normal circumstances won’t harm you either. Asbestos is a naturally occuring mineral and all of us probably have inhaled thousands of asbestos fibers. Just like cigarettes, our lungs are equipped to deal with minimal exposures. But when you have heavy, sustained exposures, the lungs’ defense mechanisms can’t handle it and then you can get lung damage, such as asbestosis, cancer or mesothelioma.

There are only 2,000 to 3,000 cases of mesothelioma diagnosed each year in the United States. It’s an extremely rare form of cancer.

]]> By: James http://www.tacosntonic.com/2006/03/mesothelioma-and-me/#comment-87 James Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:46:41 +0000 http://www.tacosntonic.com/2006/02/mesothelioma-and-me/#comment-87 that's the dilema with asbestos, tastes like vanilla ice cream that’s the dilema with asbestos, tastes like vanilla ice cream

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