Asbestosis
As the name tells the disease is related to asbestos. It happens after 25-30 years after you inhale a asbestos fibres during your work or any other occasion.
Symptoms of Asbestosis
Often persistent cough due to inflammation that the sharp microscopic asbestos fibres cause. The lungh loses its elasticity and become harder. The person can not even breathe for this manner. Symtoms are tiredness, short of breath, wheezing. and there is an interesting symptoms as well that occurs after many years as the oxygen deplets in th ebody over time so the nails on the finger become swallen and curvey and way bigger, lik ea bubble.
Plerual Plaque
This is a doubled layer lining between your rib cage and lunghs. It has fluid in th emembrane and support th efriction free movement during breathing. When plaque developes in the layer, breathing can be more difficult and painful. Of course it depends on the level of damage.
Symptoms of Plerual Plaque
Pleural plaques do not typically create any type of symptoms.
While doctors commonly believed they did not impact a person’s lung function, current evidence shows they sometimes create a minimal reduction in overall lung capability and various other steps of lung feature.
Asbestos-exposed patients with pleural plaques might establish pleural thickening, which includes much more considerable fibrous growth. Since pleural enlarging influences a bigger location, it can stop the lungs from completely expanding and also create lack of breath. You ought to constantly alert your physician if you experience symptoms such as breathlessness, persistent cough, chest pain or divulging blood, which may be indications of a much more significant undiagnosed condition.
If breathing does end up being a problem, your doctor can execute a selection of examinations, offer treatments as well as refer you to a specialist if necessary.
Diffuse pleural thickening
Symptoms of Plerual thickening
Difficulty to breathe. The person has to work harder to breathe due to friction. Apart of that the patient can breath deep enough and it can be felt.
Mesothelioma
Symptoms of Mesothelioma
Because it is a cancerous disease, it has more serious symptoms apart of th eones mentioned above. Weakness of the muscle, pain in the abdomen, fever and night sweats, constant tiredness.
Asbestos is a cause of many type of pulmonology diseases.