Radon Symptoms

​Colorado Springs Radon Mitigation always hopes that we can show up far before any radon symptoms do. When someone in your home presents with respiratory symptoms detailed below, it can be very bad news.
That’s why education is so important to us!
The more we can educate our customers about the effects of radon gas, the sooner they will see the need for our services and contact us in order to protect themselves and the ones they love most.


Radon Symptoms
There is no way to tell if radon is in your home without testing for it.
People always ask us how they can tell if radon in their homes. Unfortunately, radon is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, so you won’t taste it in your drinking water, see evidence of it staining walls or furniture, or smell it and realize it’s time to call a remediation expert.
You can live for years in a home with extremely high – toxic – levels of radon, and never know it. The prospect is terrifying when you find out that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, as well as being linked to several other types of cancer. It’s enough to strike fear into any homeowner.
Rather than living in fear, you can call Colorado Springs Radon Mitigation or another licensed radon company to professionally test for radon and provide the mitigation services that are needed to reduce those levels and, thereby, reduce your chances of developing cancer and a wide range of respiratory issues.

Radon Gas Symptoms

​Once a person knows that he or she has been exposed to radon, an obvious question may be How long will it be before I know if I was affected? Unfortunately, lung cancer may not show up for 5 years or more after exposure to radon gas
It’s more common to see cancer emerge 15 to 25 years after an alpha particle damages a healthy cell. Furthermore, cases have been reported in which cancer was not diagnosed until more than 40 years after long-term exposure to radon.
Therefore, you’re never really out of the woods once exposure has occurred. That’s why we are so aggressive in our remediation practices, and hypervigilant about testing.


Other, less severe symptoms of radon gas exposure include the following:

• Wheezing when breathing
• Constant cough
• Chest pain
• Hoarseness

In addition, anyone who experiences frequent bronchitis or upper respiratory infection – especially those with no underlying conditions – may have radon to thank for their symptoms. A quick radon system installation could get rid of these nagging issues while also reducing your family’s risk of developing cancer by 50-90%.
These lesser symptoms don’t always lead to cancer, but they can. Colorado Springs Radon Mitigation recommends that you take chronic symptoms seriously. If you have explored all avenues but can’t figure out why a certain family member or pet is presenting these or any other unexplained symptoms (such as weight loss or no appetite) it’s definitely worth having the radon levels in your home checked out.