hi
My husband was working on a refit of a 1976 ship....to cut a long story short...he was a welder..he was given inadequate face mask to wear and so he inhaled fumes.....the marine paints around where he was welding would give off fume as well as fume from his welding rods and wedling site. we know one of the Paints it was Zinc Chromate Hexavelant Cromium VI ..the other marine paints where red and white in colour.
one night at work a large amount of the yellow hexavelant paint was ground off above his head...he both breathed in the toxic dust and the the toxic fumes as it landed on his welding site...
he has now been goagnosed with reactive airways dysfunction due to the inhalation accident. of Zinc Chromate, he had ulceration to his airways ,terrible breathing issues, swelling to right side of face, dioreah for a few days and felt fluey, his body went icy cold, his urine went dark and was sweet smelling and he had a raging thirst...his blood chromium levels where 166.10 normal 9.00 when taken 6 days later
he went onto develope terrible small nerve and autonomic damage to his nervous system
no one seems to understand why his nervous system has been afected.....all illnesses have been ruled out for casing nerve problems
please can you assist
did the very high levels of chromium in his blood cause the nerve damage?? as I have heard that chromium leaves the body as Creatinine ...standard urine tests for Chromium VI look for Creatinine levels??? could that have caused a short term diabetic crisis that destroyed his nervous system???
or could there have been arsenic and lead in the paints that hurt him so badly???
we are 4 yrs in and he is still avery sick man
kindest regards
m