Living with Asbestos Related Illness Asbestos and Libby Health Form

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when released into the air inhaled asbestos fibers enter the upper and then lower respiratory tracts asbestos fibers are recognized by the lungs as foreign bodies and caused the activation of the lungs local immune system leading to inflammation cell and tissue damage because Libby Amphipolis bestest is a long needle-like fiber it becomes embedded in the lung tissue over time some fibers move to the pleura the thin lining around the lung the pleural lining reacts by creating scar tissue around the asbestos fibers this scarring reduces the flexibility of the pleural lining making it difficult for the lungs to fully expand during breathing pleural thickening occurs when extended segments of lining around the lung becomes thicker and less stretchy due to the formation of scar tissue it is important to remember that pleural scarring occurs on a continuum from localized pleural plaques to diffuse pleural thickening just as the degree of scarring occurs on a continuum so do the symptoms peop