Inhalants gasoline

Inhaling Gasoline One of the best descriptions of gasoline sniffing as It actually occurs was published in 1955 by the late A. E. ("Tajar") Hamilton of the Hamilton School in Sheffield, Mass., in his classic... 

EXPOSURE ROUTES Inhalation (gasoline, smelters, tobacco smoke, paints and emissions) ingestion (paint chips and contaminated drinking water) absorption occupational exposure. 

EXPOSURE ROUTES Inhalation (gasoline) ingestion intravenous occupational ex-... 

Like many organic solvents, including hexane, heptane, ben2ene, xylene, toluene, gasoline, and particularly some of the other chlorinated and fluorinated solvents, methylene chloride may cause cardiac arrhythmias in the presence of elevated epinephrine when inhaled at concentrations as high as 20,000 ppm (36). 

Health Hazard Information - Recommended Personal Protective Equipment Goggles or face shield plastic gloves (as for gasoline) Symptoms Following Exposure Vapor causes mild irritation of eyes and mild Irritation of respiratory tract if inhaled. Ingestion causes irritation to stomach. Aspiration causes severe lung irritation and rapidly developing pulmonary edema central nervous system excitement... 

Handling hazardous ehemieals has beeome part of most people s everyday living. Just eonsider gasoline, and how most people fill their own tanks. In the manufaeturing arena, ehemieals are eommonplaee. On hazardous waste sites there are a variety of unknown ehemieal substanees and other hazards that may take the form of a solid, liquid, or gas. The eflfeets of exposure to toxie ehemieals may either be immediate (e.g., aeid burns) or delayed (e.g., lung damage from inhaling asbestos). There are four routes of ehemieal exposure that exist ... 

Mineral Oil Hydraulic Fluids. No associations between occupational exposure to mineral oil hydraulic fluids and cancer occurrence in particular organs were found in a case-control study of cancer patients after adjustment for gasoline exposure (Siemiatycki et al. 1987a). No other studies were located regarding cancer in humans or animals after inhalation, oral, or dermal exposure to mineral oil hydraulic fluids. The... 

For vapor to move in the unsaturated zone, the soil formations must be sufficiently dry to permit the interconnection of air passages among the soil pores. Vapor concentration and vapor flow govern its movement. Vapor can move by diffusion from areas of higher concentration to areas of lower concentration and ultimately to the atmosphere. Therefore, the transportation of the vapor phase of gasoline components in the unsaturated zone can pose a significant health and safety threat because of inhalation and explosion potential. 

In 1982-1983, the baseline value for daily intake of lead by inhalation in a nonurban environment was estimated to be 0.5 pg/day for a 2-year-old child. The baseline value was based on an average atmospheric lead concentration of 0.1 pg/m3 and an indoor/outdoor lead concentration ratio of 0.5. In an urban environment, the indoor/outdoor ratio was assumed to be approximately 0.8 (EPA 1986a). Drastic reductions in the lead content of gasoline since 1986 have resulted in a 64% decrease in lead emissions to the atmosphere (see Section 5.4.1). 

Habashi N, Kruszewski S. 1987. Lead encephalopathy from inhalation of leaded gasoline in an adult. Meeting of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine, San Diego, CA, April 30-May 1. Clin Res 35 743A. 

Hazardous smoke. The potential for smoke inhalation damage is judged to be most severe in the descending order gasoline, methane, and hydrogen fires. 

Colorless oily liquid with a musty or fruity odor. Commercial material may be dyed red, orange, or blue. This material is hazardous through inhalation, skin absorption (liquid), penetration through broken skin, and ingestion, and produces local skin/eye impacts. Used industrially as an antiknock additive for gasoline. 

Organic solvents inhaled by abusers include gasoline, glue, aerosols, amyl nitrite, butyl nitrite, typewriter correction fluid, lighter fluid, cleaning fluids, paint products, nail polish remover, waxes, and varnishes. Chemicals in these products include nitrous oxide, toluene, benzene, methanol, methylene chloride, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl butyl ketone, trichloroethylene, and trichloroethane. 

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