#Antique medical books skin#

Other causes for lung cancer are extremely rare.Īlso, it was surprised to see damages to facial skin of many librarians. There are two major sources of risk for lung cancer: smoking and radon gases.

The cases of lung cancer were especially suspicious. Few of the lung cancer and heart attack cases belonged to heavy smokers, most others were related to people that did not seem to be exposed these risks. Recently, in some public libraries the author of this article observed some common abnormal health conditions among librarians such as lung cancer, heart attack, facial skin damage and respiratory allergy problems. Here is a scientific approach for understanding and solving these problems. The existing standards are not enough to protect the librarians and new studies should be conducted to create new standards. They should be considered workers at high risk and be protected by law. The range of risks varies from lung cancer and heart attack to chronic asthma, allergy problems, depression, nervous problems, skin problems etc. This study reveals that the librarians who work with dusty books are in real health danger. There are no studies done for libraries, however, we can come to some conclusion by using the information of the pollution risk in other related environments. Since dust particles can be very harmful, in this article we study the hazards and the solutions of this problem. There are no other normal cases that you blow dust in your nose by yourself. When you open a dusty book, an air current is created which pushes up the dust accumulated on and in the books directly to your nose. © Copyright 2003, Hassan Bolourchi, US Library of Congress, All rights reserved. The 6th edition of the Indoor Air Quality 2004 Meeting (IAQ2004) in Padova, Italy

Relationship of Lung Cancer and Heart Attack to Library Books' Dustīy Hassan Bolourchi, article is presented at: