Asbestosis Symptoms
Asbestosis Symptoms – Three Stages Of Development
Increasing you chances of making a successful asbestosis claim can be made by early detection of asbestosis symptoms so you may readily be able to make correlation with potential causes, emanating from possible exposure at your work or in your home environment. Additionally, secondary asbestos exposure through contact with individuals- or their clothing – through having been in first contact with asbestos fibres.
Generally, asbestosis symptoms reveal themselves in three progressive stages.
Stage One: Early
Occurs in such a mild form that there is a danger that those who first experience a slight feeling of being ‘unwell’ may be misled to thinking that they are suffering a vague ‘rundown’ feeling.
They wrongly presume this due to an yet unspecified common or seasonal illness, perhaps thinking they have ‘put on a few pounds’ or generally because of poor fitness as a result of lack of regular exercise.
The first symptom to be alerted to is ‘shortness of breath after exertion or exercise’. It’s understandable that it may be first thought that this is simply a sign of being ‘out of shape’. If the individual is also a smoker, then a ‘wheezing sound’ can also sometimes be heard.
However, a more acute early warning is the appearance of the ‘dry cough’. Attention should be paid to a prolonged period of dry coughing where there is no obvious other signs of the presence of illness, such as running a high temperature due to fever or infection.
At this early stage, there will also be an accompanying sense of general malaise, constant tiredness or feeling drained.
Stage Two: Middle
Not only will include all the early symptoms, but now shortness of breath is now more frequent, sometimes occurring even when the person is at rest.
A feeling of ‘tightness’ or a recurring chest pain is experienced and it may be felt as an inability to ‘catch their breath’ or lungs fill adequately. An indication that oxygen is no longer being exchanged efficiently in the bloodstream is the appearance of pitted, uneven fingernails or ‘clubbed’ fingers.
Stage Three: Advanced
The most advanced stages of asbestosis symptoms can be serious cause for extreme worry and potentially frightening. It may actually lead to being hospitalisation.
Increased severe chest pain, which feels like pressure being placed on the chest, poor interrupted sleep patterns and the need to sleep without being fully reclined to make breathing is easier.
Additional severe symptoms may take the form of swelling of the hands, feet and ankles, coughing up blood or fluid from the lungs and recurring infections, particularly those of a respiratory nature.
All the above descriptions are important to acquiring knowledge for increased asbestos awareness , most obviously and urgently at the earliest stage with essential asbestos advice.