Hello

Sorry to hear about your recent experience and that it is now causing you to worry.

This incident will have led to minimal exposure to asbestos and your risk of getting ill is extremely low. Asbestosis only occurs after many years of exposure to large amounts of asbestos. There are medical journals and research that shows someone would likely need to spend 25 years in an environment with 1 million asbestos fibres per m3 of air before they would develop asbestosis.

Your risk of mesothelioma is also very low. Again the people most at risk will have spent many years working with large amounts of asbestos. Here is an extract from a medical journal looking at risk of mesothelioma amongst asbestos miners. 
"prolonged continuous exposures to asbestos of at least 3 months and usually 10 years were required to induce mesothelioma. At the same time, these findings revealed that most individuals exposed for prolonged time to extremely high levels of amosite and or crocidolite asbestos did not develop mesothelioma. The finding that individuals with less than 3 months of continuous exposure to asbestos did not develop mesothelioma were independently supported by the observations that there were no cases of mesothelioma amoungst the Wittenoom crocidolite miners in Australia exposed for less than 3 months. It is important to appreciate that only prolonged exposures increase the risk of mesothelioma to reassure individuals who may have had sporadic exposure and who are concerned about their own risk of developing the disease." 
 

I hope this information puts your mind at ease. 

I have saved this post and keep reading it for my sanity. Thank you so much for writing it in the first place.

On Saturday myself, husband and two daughters (2 y/o and 7week old) were in a small room of 2x3m. We were advised to take down some ceiling to show which way the rafters were running and before I'd even thought I'd jumped on a stool and knocked out a 30cm x 30cm part of the ceiling. I absolutely hate myself. Luckily it occurred to me quite quickly and we were out of the room in 20 minutes. Zero minutes would've been best but this is the biggest mistake of my life and I am so scared for my babies as I'm sure any parent rading this would be too. Luckily we don't live at the property so we could leave and we took all the precautions we could to make sure any contamination didn't follow us. 

I'm scared out of my mind for my little ones. We find out the testing results regarding composition and type tomorrow. I hope my heart doesn't break in two and I may well be back here to read your post again.

Kindest regards to you all as the support and information I've read is inspiring and hope giving 

I have saved this post and keep reading it for my sanity. Thank you so much for writing it in the first place.

On Saturday myself, husband and two daughters (2 y/o and 7week old) were in a small room of 2x3m. We were advised to take down some ceiling to show which way the rafters were running and before I'd even thought I'd jumped on a stool and knocked out a 30cm x 30cm part of the ceiling. I absolutely hate myself. Luckily it occurred to me quite quickly and we were out of the room in 20 minutes. Zero minutes would've been best but this is the biggest mistake of my life and I am so scared for my babies as I'm sure any parent rading this would be too. Luckily we don't live at the property so we could leave and we took all the precautions we could to make sure any contamination didn't follow us. 

I'm scared out of my mind for my little ones. We find out the testing results regarding composition and type tomorrow. I hope my heart doesn't break in two and I may well be back here to read your post again.

Kindest regards to you all as the support and information I've read is inspiring and hope giving