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1 Signs and symptoms. 2 Causes. Toggle Causes subsection. 2.1 Unintentional. ... Household aerosol products such as air fresheners and deodorants can be a convenient ...
Air fresheners from Febreze. Air fresheners are products designed to reduce unwanted odors in indoor spaces, or to introduce pleasant fragrances, or both. They typically emit fragrance to mask odors but may use other methods of action such as absorbing, bonding to, or chemically altering compounds in the air that produce smells, killing organisms that produce smells, or disrupting the sense of ...
Aerosolized (spray) cleaning products are important risk factors and may aggravate symptoms of adult asthma, [9] respiratory irritation, [2] childhood asthma, wheeze, bronchitis, and allergy. [ 8 ] Other modes of exposure to potentially harmful household cleaning chemicals include absorption through the skin (dermis), accidental ingestion, and ...
Inhalant drugs are often used by children, teenagers, incarcerated or institutionalized people, and impoverished people, because these solvents and gases are ingredients in hundreds of legally available, inexpensive products, such as deodorant sprays, hair spray, contact cement and aerosol air fresheners. However, most users tend to be ...
Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder revealed a probable mechanism for the carcinogenic effects of mothballs and some types of air fresheners. [10] [11] In addition to their cancer risks, mothballs are known to cause liver and kidney damage. [1] 1,4-Dichlorobenzene is a neurotoxin.
[clarification needed] Para-dichlorobenzene- and naphthalene-based blocks do not readily dissolve in water/urine, but easily sublime into the air, creating a sickly-sweet odor that has anti-microbial effects. [2]
Symptoms fever, shaking chills, arthralgias , myalgias, headache, and malaise Polymer fume fever or fluoropolymer fever , also informally called Teflon flu , is an inhalation fever caused by the fumes released when polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, known under the trade name Teflon ) reaches temperatures of 300 °C (572 °F) to 450 °C (842 °F).
Beryllium poisoning is poisoning by the toxic effects of beryllium, or more usually its compounds. It takes two forms: Acute beryllium poisoning, usually as a result of exposure to soluble beryllium salts; Chronic beryllium disease (CBD) or berylliosis, usually as a result of long-term exposure to beryllium oxide usually caused by inhalation.