02-01-2010, 03:38 PM
AND, one other thing you may want to consider here.
I don't know if your physician informed you or not, but this type of reaction to things such as resin are what are known as 'cumulative effects'. This is the main reason you never "had a problem" before, but you will MOST CERTAINLY from now on. Proper protective equipment is ALWAYS appropriate, but even moreso now for you. Resin has been damaging you for quite some time now, but you did not realise it until these symptoms appeared. You have reached that "point" of your tolerance to it.
Here is a point which may frighten you just a bit more, and hopefully, enough that you wear protective equipment from now on.
The effects you have just witnessed of resin for you will never decrease now as your body has built up a 'accumulative effect' I mentioned earlier. This WILL NOT go away in time like many other ailments. This stays with you and ONLY gets worse the more you expose yourself to resins and similar types of chemicals. If you DON'T take appropriate action in the future when you are using these things, the 'effect' will only increase for you and can even get to a point you can no longer be exposed to it EVEN with proper PPE. That's just a fact you need to consider.
Ask around on other forums.
There are SEVERAL other of our brother modelers who have progressed to the point they can no longer be around some of the things we use all the time. There are even a couple guys we know that stand a VERY real chance of death from contact because they have allowed themselves to progress to the point of no return with this stuff. Some didn't even know they were doing it until it was too late.
Don't shoot the messenger here.
I don't know if your physician informed you or not, but this type of reaction to things such as resin are what are known as 'cumulative effects'. This is the main reason you never "had a problem" before, but you will MOST CERTAINLY from now on. Proper protective equipment is ALWAYS appropriate, but even moreso now for you. Resin has been damaging you for quite some time now, but you did not realise it until these symptoms appeared. You have reached that "point" of your tolerance to it.
Here is a point which may frighten you just a bit more, and hopefully, enough that you wear protective equipment from now on.
The effects you have just witnessed of resin for you will never decrease now as your body has built up a 'accumulative effect' I mentioned earlier. This WILL NOT go away in time like many other ailments. This stays with you and ONLY gets worse the more you expose yourself to resins and similar types of chemicals. If you DON'T take appropriate action in the future when you are using these things, the 'effect' will only increase for you and can even get to a point you can no longer be exposed to it EVEN with proper PPE. That's just a fact you need to consider.
Ask around on other forums.
There are SEVERAL other of our brother modelers who have progressed to the point they can no longer be around some of the things we use all the time. There are even a couple guys we know that stand a VERY real chance of death from contact because they have allowed themselves to progress to the point of no return with this stuff. Some didn't even know they were doing it until it was too late.
Don't shoot the messenger here.
~Recycle~