CARPENTERS: Could this be asbestos poisoning?
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by admin
Asbestos
Twice, my husband has had to cut into the stucco of an 80 year old house (while wearing a respirator) enveloping him in a thick cloud of dust. Almost immediately, he began vomiting, had a headache, his joints were hurting, etc. These symptoms lasted well into the evening each time.
He is a diabetic, but he felt fine until he made the cut, and in spite of all of these symptoms, his blood sugar was 120.
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Twice, my husband has had to cut into the stucco of an 80 year old house (while wearing a respirator) enveloping him in a thick cloud of dust. Almost immediately, he began vomiting, had a headache, his joints were hurting, etc. These symptoms lasted well into the evening each time.
He is a diabetic, but he felt fine until he made the cut, and in spite of all of these symptoms, his blood sugar was 120.
SERIOUS RESPONSES ONLY PLEASE!
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Asbestosis does not cause symptoms like that. Basically, the asbestos enters the lungs and embeds it’s fibres into the lungs and stays there forever. It could take many years for lung cancer to form. Those symptoms are from something else, but not asbestos.
Why is he cutting into old stucco? Can he have it tested or request that it be tested? What you would do is take some and put it in a ziplock bag and bring it to an envirmonmental company that does asbestos testing. It would cost about $100 or so. And the results would be back in a day or so.