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Assessment of skin exposure continues to be relatively difficult because it is difficult to measure t r estimate the dose actually absorbed by the skin. 

In cases which recover from the pulmonary edema, there is usually no permanent disability, but pneumonia may develop later. Concns of 100—150ppm are dangerous for short exposures of 30 to 60 minutes. Concns of 200—700ppm may be fatal after even very short exposures Continued exposure to low concns of the fumes, insufficient to cause pulmonary edema, is said to result in chronic irritation of the respiratory tract, with cough, headache, loss of appetite, dyspepsia, corrosion of the teeth and gradual loss of strength... 

Once in your blood, your liver changes much of the trichloroethylene into other chemicals. The majority of these breakdown products leave your body in the urine within a day. You will also quickly breathe out much of the trichloroethylene that is in your bloodstream. Some of the trichloroethylene or its breakdown products can be stored in body fat for a brief period, and thus may build up in your body if exposure continues. For more information on trichloroethylene in your body, see Chapter 2. 

Most chemical agents are essentially cumulative in their effects. The reason is that the human body detoxifies them very slowly or not at all. For example, a 1-h exposure to HD or CG followed within a few hours by another 1-h exposure has about the same effect as a single 2-h exposure. Continued exposure to low concentrations of HD may cause sensitivity to very low concentrations of HD. Other chemical agents also have cumulative effects. For example, an initial exposure to a small (less than lethal) amount of Sarin (GB) would decrease cholinesterase levels a second quantity less than the FDS0... 

Potential dermal exposure (PDE) was the sum of the amount of chlorpyrifos retained by the dosimeter (socks, gloves, and union suit) during the 20-min exposure period. Absorbed daily dose (ADD) was the sum of chlorpyrifos equivalents measured in urine for days 2,3, and 4. Home-use biomonitoring data are expressed as chlorpyrifos equivalents per day, as exposure continued throughout the test period. 

In an undated study, HCFC-141b was administered to male SpragueDawley rats at concentrations of 5,000, 10,000, or 20,000 ppm for 30 min (Eger, unpublished data). As exposure continued, bolus intravenous epinephrine, characterized as three times the dose that produced arrhythmias in the same rats anesthetized with halothane, was administered. The dose of epinephrine was defined as a maximum of 12 fig/kg. For this study, three or more premature ventricular contractions was considered an arrhythmic response (Table 4—5). Marked arrhythmias occurred at all concentrations. The author further compared the concentrations of halothane and HCFC-141b that produced arrhythmias with administration of various doses of exogenous epinephrine. The nominal chamber concentration for HCFC-141b did not differ from that of halothane. Furthermore, the arrhythmias were characterized as relatively mild and within acceptable limits for surgical anesthesia in humans. 

There is also a well-established record that should be highlighted the ubiquitous presence and levels of PFOS and PFOA in human milk and blood. However, transplacental studies to elucidate the process involving and the risks associated with early life exposure continue being required. 

In another pattern of sensitization response, a worker who has had only minimal upper respiratory symptoms or no apparent effects from several weeks of low-level exposure may suddenly develop an acute asthmatic reaction to the same or a slightly higher level. The asthmatic reaction may be severe, sometimes resulting in status asthmaticus, which may be fatal if exposure continues. ... 

In industrial exposure, continuously operated filter samplers can be used to measure the potential alpha energy concentration, but in houses passive dosimeters are more commonly used and these measure concentrations of radon, not radon daughters. Since... 

In severe cases of exposure to toxicants, a population may go to zero and stay there so long as exposure continues or, if the toxicant is removed, until immigration from outside the ecosystem restores the population. In other cases, the population is reduced and remains at a lower level so long as exposure to the toxicant continues. Another possibility is for a population to decline, and then rise again as the population develops resistance to the effects of the toxic substance. This effect has been observed in the case of exposure to insecticides of insects whose short reproductive times enable natural selection to build populations resistant to the insecticides. 

Patients with acute and chronic Al encephalopathy can demonstrate unilateral or bilateral myoclonic jerks of the extremities for several months in the chronic form and days to weeks in the acute form, followed by convulsions and coma even when the exposure is terminated, ft seems as if brain pathology reaches a point of no return which results in frequent epileptic insults and inevitably leads to coma and death, either due to superimposed infections like aspiration pneumonia, or pulmonary edema due to cardiac toxicity. Recovery is exceptional in severe cases. In the past, reports showed that the early stages of chronic Al encephalopathy progressed to death, mainly because the most important source of Al, namely the dialysis fluid contamination, was not recognized as such and the exposure continued for months to years [10-17, 19-42]. 

A two-generation reproduction study is needed with at least 6 hr/d exposure continuing to pups after weaning and into the F2 generation to determine the effects of long-term exposures. Developmental neurotoxicity endpoints should be included in this study based on the types of effects seen in the peri- and postnatal study with the snout-only 1 hr/d exposure. 

The prevalence rate of cocaine use during pregnancy is 10-45% in some centers in North America. As cocaine use is increasing and widespread, information on the possible adverse effects secondary to fetal cocaine exposure continues to amass in case reports and studies. 

Acrylonitrile closely resembles hydrocyanic acid in its toxic action. By inhibiting the respiratory enzymes of tissue, it renders the tissue cells incapable of oxygen absorption. Poisoning is acute there is little evidence of cumulative action on repeated exposure. Exposure to low concentration is followed by flushing of the face and increased salivation further exposure results in irritation of the eyes and nose, photophobia, deepened respiration. If exposure continues, shallow respiration. 

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