> Just spent 2-3 years wondering why I kept getting sick so often and sometimes > coughing for 3-4 hours a day. (I'm a non smoker and otherwise healthy) I spent > most of the weekend machining aly blocks with coolant splashing all over the > place on a knee mill and on Sunday night felt really sick. Finally the penny > dropped, it is the coolant in the air I was breathing in that was the cause. > The realization only came as I was doing 2 x 8 hour days machining which > exacerbated the problem. > > I was booked in to see a immunologist next week for the coughing but I think I > found the source of the problem. There could be 2 issues, the composition of > the soluble oil or bacteria growth in the sump. The sump is a separate 60 > litre tank and is clean but I'm getting a bacteria test done on it now. > > This the reading that struck a cord. See here > > https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/metalworkingfluids/metalworkingfluids_manual.html#e > > Look at Respiratory Diseases. > > I may not be the only one this has happened to. > > Cheers Wallace.
My neighbor once warned me about zink fever then I was welding galvanized steel. Lead my have long term cognivitive effects but I have not seen any unusually stupid questions here. I have done forest work and conclude real work is not healthy. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
