Exposed to asbestos?
Posted on August 27th, 2009 by admin
Asbestos
About five years ago my dad was doing up the garden and their were asbestos sheets at the back of the garden and my dad asked me if I would help him moves the asbestos sheets (my dad didn’t know that they were asbestos sheets, the previous owners left them there, and I was 14 at the time I’m now 19) When we were moving them 3 of the asbestos sheets broke into pieces, I want to find out if I was exposed to alot of asbestos, enouf to give me cancer?????does it help that they broke outside
Street Fighter: The Later Years
About five years ago my dad was doing up the garden and their were asbestos sheets at the back of the garden and my dad asked me if I would help him moves the asbestos sheets (my dad didn’t know that they were asbestos sheets, the previous owners left them there, and I was 14 at the time I’m now 19) When we were moving them 3 of the asbestos sheets broke into pieces, I want to find out if I was exposed to alot of asbestos, enouf to give me cancer?????does it help that they broke outside
Street Fighter: The Later Years
Filed under: Respiratory Diseases
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Unfortunately, there is no answer. With carcinogens, ANY exposure has the POTENTIAL to give you cancer. Most believe there is very, very little risk from single low exposures. We just don’t understand enough to know how it works at that level. Everyone is exposed to asbestos since it occurs naturally in the air. Just digging in the garden exposes you. Most regulations are based on an “average” person and are for measurable exposures.
Now to the level. If you had been wearing a monitoring device, it probably would not even have registered asbestos above background. To get to a measurable amount you have to have small clouds of material around you and to get to a regulated amount, you have to be grinding, sanding, etc for a single exposure like you had.
Not to worry. Your driving is a million times (at least) more likely to kill you than this asbestos exposure.