Hi there,
Last summer, I scraped old paint off some stonework on my house. Well, most of it just peeled off, so there wasn't much scraping necessary. However, there was a bit of dust created, not least from the crumbling surface of the stonework.
The work only took at hour or so, but about two hours later I developed dizziness and numbness at the back of my head. I still felt the same the following day, so I went to my GP but was assured that it wasn't any kind of poisoning - I had probably just caught the sun.
Anyway, after four or five days the symptoms disappeared and a week later I did some more paint scraping (peeling!), this time on a dull day and whilst wearing a dust mask, and again exactly the same symptoms occured an hour or two later, lasting for three or four days again.
A builder friend recently assured me that the paint concerned would not contain lead, so last weekend I removed some more paint, again wearing a mask, and exactly the same thing happened. I'm still experiencing the numbness now.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?!
Thanks,
Simon
Last summer, I scraped old paint off some stonework on my house. Well, most of it just peeled off, so there wasn't much scraping necessary. However, there was a bit of dust created, not least from the crumbling surface of the stonework.
The work only took at hour or so, but about two hours later I developed dizziness and numbness at the back of my head. I still felt the same the following day, so I went to my GP but was assured that it wasn't any kind of poisoning - I had probably just caught the sun.
Anyway, after four or five days the symptoms disappeared and a week later I did some more paint scraping (peeling!), this time on a dull day and whilst wearing a dust mask, and again exactly the same symptoms occured an hour or two later, lasting for three or four days again.
A builder friend recently assured me that the paint concerned would not contain lead, so last weekend I removed some more paint, again wearing a mask, and exactly the same thing happened. I'm still experiencing the numbness now.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?!
Thanks,
Simon