A look at the lung disease, silicosis

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  • Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
  • We meet Dean Morris, a stonemason who's been diagnosed with silicosis, to learn more about this lung disease and what the future holds for him.
    From The House of Wellness Season 3, Episode 37.
    Watch LIVE each Sunday at 12 noon on Channel 7 or catch up on the episode at www.houseofwel...

Комментарии • 35

  • @UUhm_1dk
    @UUhm_1dk 3 дня назад

    My dad is 51 and was diagnosed with it around 2020 and he's been suffering ever since. I don't want to lose him so early.

  • @formercanadiancitizen4756
    @formercanadiancitizen4756 3 года назад +16

    I started when I was a kid in the late 70’s in Canada and had my first lung exam about 13 years later which shocked my examiner but it didn’t shock me. All these years later and I’m finally rendered redundant due to collapsed discs in my lower spine and scoliosis of the upper. Very often I awake at night in a panic because I can’t breathe, my days are numbered but my politicians tell me to get off my ass and get a job! Thanks Doug Ford

    • @thomascarpenter7415
      @thomascarpenter7415 3 года назад +2

      I just recently started with the waking up in a panic ... I now take allergy over the counter pills to open my sinuses, Breath Rite strips and Flownase spray as well .. I do it right before bed and they’ve helped reduce the incidents ...

    • @metaverseplayer
      @metaverseplayer Год назад

      How are you doing these days?

    • @Killakrab007
      @Killakrab007 5 месяцев назад

      @@metaverseplayerguess you got your answer

  • @wolfeman7558
    @wolfeman7558 Год назад +4

    I'm a second year concrete Finisher. Where I'm working, were building underground plenum shafts. They make us wear full face shield respirators along with hazmat suits. We do a lot of chipping, drilling, cutting into dry stone. Early into the project their was quartz in the air also. That including sand blasting piles and applying spray-crete. That said, it's been the most hazardous job I ever been to in my life. I still work there just on the ground now.

  • @jcfpv3454
    @jcfpv3454 3 года назад +8

    I am going through the same thing here after drilling holes into concrete when building houses in the usa and no one will take it seriously the doctors said mild biapical scarring but it's like they wont help how can these companies not be thrown in jail this is murder and has ruined my life.

    • @Killakrab007
      @Killakrab007 5 месяцев назад

      Have you gone to multiple different doctors? May be a dumb question but

  • @sky757533
    @sky757533 4 года назад +15

    i wil pray for your healing , dont stop parying miracles are hapening eveywhere

  • @jcfpv3454
    @jcfpv3454 3 года назад +5

    Please help spread awareness of silicosis. hopefully someone can create a cure for this horrible disease I worry everyday that I will die from going to work and working hard my employer never informed us of the dangers and never provided any protectionI wish osha or someone would have told me the dangers of drilling into concrete i had no idea my employer never gave me any kind of protection and never told me of the dangers we were carpenters and had to attach wood to concrete or drill tie down holes blow out the holes with air and epoxy the all threaded rods in never realized its fatal with no hope no cure no treatments.my life has been turned upside down and no one would even investigate the company they denied it and osha said they needed a 3 day notice prior to drilling which the contractors know and know there untouchable. My life is ruined at 35 I beg you please save our lives

  • @albertocastillo2452
    @albertocastillo2452 Год назад +2

    My brother is 36 yrs old and on August 5,2023 was diagnosed positive for silicosis 😭
    He works with marble and granite for the last 19 years

  • @rachidasabo828
    @rachidasabo828 2 года назад +3

    My dad passed away with silicosis last year. He didn't know he had; it takes only a few weeks after diagnosis that he was gone

  • @akshayraveendran6820
    @akshayraveendran6820 2 месяца назад

    I've been using hair fibers which have silicon in them for years....am I at risk for silicosis?

  • @latifnoori1014
    @latifnoori1014 2 года назад +1

    I'm so sorry mate

  • @jcfpv3454
    @jcfpv3454 3 года назад +3

    I just wish I would have known no one told us no one had signs posted no one ever said a word This is out right MURDER they should be put to death for doing this to someone.

  • @jcfpv3454
    @jcfpv3454 3 года назад +4

    Please help me I was exposed to massive amounts of silica dust and wasn't provided protection now I am terrified I am going to die I feel trapped without a way out I feel like I am barred a live with no help I was just a wood carpenter but the boss had us drilling into concrete and blowing out the holes with compressed air never provided any protection or knowledge of the dangers I need help fast I dont want to die

    • @andreasmith7396
      @andreasmith7396 3 года назад

      How long were you performing that kind of work? I'm curious because I have family who have done lots of home projects and I'm worried.

    • @dylanwilliams2944
      @dylanwilliams2944 3 года назад +2

      I have the same problem I was cutting and chipping heaps of concrete away for weeks maybe a couple of months and even today drilled holes and blew them out without any mask, super fucken scared now I don’t want to die I don’t even wanna go out because it’s all I think about

    • @2m0ng032
      @2m0ng032 3 года назад

      As far as I know, the danger lies mostly in repeated exposure over a long period of time, as in several years.
      If you don't have symptoms like shortness of breath and chronic cough I wouldn't worry about it.

  • @bludclone
    @bludclone 2 года назад +2

    i wonder how much damage i did for working at a stone mason factory for 2 years.

    • @Killakrab007
      @Killakrab007 5 месяцев назад

      Should probably go to a doctor and find out

  • @jcfpv3454
    @jcfpv3454 3 года назад +3

    Please help us I was never given protection or any warnings and worry it will kill me my dr doesn't seem to care and its really worrying me

    • @youtubeaccount5356
      @youtubeaccount5356 6 месяцев назад

      Your comment was from 2 years ago, how are you doing today, bro?

  • @JS-zb1vv
    @JS-zb1vv 3 года назад +2

    What about pulmonary lavage ? Wash the lungs

    • @slowentropy4531
      @slowentropy4531 Год назад

      Unfortunately not

    • @justinhoskins9653
      @justinhoskins9653 Год назад

      Yes there is a cure now theyvwash the lungs like a washing mashine with salt water gets rid of scaring

  • @UnionJG
    @UnionJG Год назад +3

    Remember, if you’re going to wear any mask or protection, against silica dust, make sure it is a niosh approved respirator such as N-95 or better.

    • @UnionJG
      @UnionJG Год назад

      Also before wearing a mask, engineering controls should be the first option. ie using water on saw blades, vacuum attachments or air filters in a room with little ventilation.

    • @slowentropy4531
      @slowentropy4531 Год назад

      Just remember a beard or facial hair essentially makes any face masks useless.