Airborne
Hazard
Airborne
hazards are a very serious matter when responding to many scenes where there is
a fire, or you need to go in an underground cave that you are not sure the air
is like beneath that surface, or when there is a some kind of explosion or wild
fire that is exposed to the air and containments the air and spreads throughout
the air and gets into our respiratory tract and could either kill us
immediately or do a lot of serious damage with our breathing and brain, muscle
damage as well.
When there is an airborne hazard that is in the air,
there is many parts of your respiratory tract that can be damaged along the
way. Firstly, there is your nose and mouth that we use to breathe, which is
where the hazard of airborne will damage. It can go up the nose and hurt the
bones and cartilage that the nose uses to move around the particles we breathe
in and once those can be damaged from the airborne hazard and can damage those
parts of the nose possibly not allowing you to breathe correctly again. It also
comes through your mouth into your esophagus, trachea, and pharynx is part of
the throat region that can also be very damaged that could mess up your
breathing for the rest of your life. Then it can travel as far as your lungs in
the bronchus, bronchiole and alveoli and if those are damaged that can be very
fatal.
Another part of inhaling the airborne in the affected
air is that if it damages the mucociliary escalator is lining the respiratory
and it helps carry any particle that goes through your airway tracts. It also
helps remover very very very small particles along the way to protect the
stomach. If an airborne hazard is too strong it can damage the mucociliary
escalator which helps carries all the particles from mouth to stomach, if that
lining is affected you would need to get that replaced and a lot of surgery to
fix that because it is such an important part in every day breathing and
eating.
Airborne hazards come in different material sizes. They
range from large to small materials just depending on the kind of situation it
is and what kind of materials and elements is involved if causes the airborne
hazard. These materials include, gases, vapor, liquid droplets; mists, liquid
condensates; fumes, solids; dusts, fibers, bioaerosols, and mixtures smoke. These
materials depend on what kind of situations happen. For example, a pretty
common airborne hazard is fires, due to house fires, bonfires, small house
fires and they release smoke into the air damaging our respiratory tracts.
There are a couple diseases that involve your
respiratory tract and can be chronic or acute in one’s lifespan. One is
restrictive lung disease’s is a lung disease which restricts our lung expansion
which will decrease your lung volume and make oneself work harder to breathe
more to get oxygen to your lungs. An example of restrictive lung disease is sarcoidosis
which is an autoimmune disease, so your body creates this problem within
oneself making it hard to breathe every day. Another lung disease is
obstructive. This is when the lungs narrow the smaller bronchi and large
bronchioles. This happens commonly due to excessive contraction of the smooth
muscle. A personal example of this is asthma. Asthma can be genetics or exercise
induced for some people. Asthma is narrowing of your breathing pathway and you
can not breathe and it is very overwhelming feeling.
Airborne hazard’s are very serious safety issues that
we need to be aware of because they can be fatal.
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