Help! I breathed in some of the touch-up paint
05-15-2006 | 07:50 PM
#27
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From: Renton, WA, USA, No. Am, Planet Earth
Originally Posted by StealthTL
Short term exposures like that don't usually have lasting effects.
I've been working with Toluene and Benzene for twenty some years. (we make fifty tons an hour!)
Occasionally we get a gutful taking samples or preparing equipment for maintenance. Just a headache or dizziness.
Oh....and seeing the Toluene Fairy,
and Benzeena, Queen of all the gypsy 
pygmys!
but that's only on night shift
!!
S
I've been working with Toluene and Benzene for twenty some years. (we make fifty tons an hour!)
Occasionally we get a gutful taking samples or preparing equipment for maintenance. Just a headache or dizziness.
Oh....and seeing the Toluene Fairy,
and Benzeena, Queen of all the gypsy pygmys!but that's only on night shift
!!S
The whole story... Another warning...!!!!!!!!!
If you cut yourself or get bruised in any way, and feel like you're getting the flu, have extreme pain or high temp or get really dehydrated... Don't ignore it!!!!!
When you go to the doctor or ER, DON'T let them send you home without checking for necrotizing fasciitis!!!!!!!!! This is the WORST bacterial infection you can get... the flesh eating bacteria. There are 2 kinds... aerobic (loves air so eats flesh on the outside) and anaerobic (doesn't love air, so eats flesh inside the body). It eats flesh VERY quickly!My fiance took a serious bump to the back of his left thigh while riding his motorcycle. It started hurting really bad that night, but I couldn't see a bruise. The pain progressed, but he wouldn't let me take him to the ER until the 6th day. They did an x-ray, but said it was probably just a bad bruise and go home and take muscle relaxers. The muscle relaxers knocked him out, but after 4 more days of him being stubborn and not getting better, I called an ambulance. This time the ER doc said they thought it was just inflamation in his hip (the other leg already had osteoarthritis from an old football injury), so they sent him home with crutches, pain meds and cortisone. He was sweating really bad and begging for water, but they still sent him home! The next morning I said this is BS!!! I took him to the hospital and they checked him in. They tried to figure out what was going on for 2 days!!! At 5pm the 2nd day they took him in for a CT scan and by 10pm they took him in for emergency surgery. When the surgeon finally came out at 1am, he said they found necrotizing fasciitis in the spot where his bike hit his thigh, and they removed most of the back of his thigh!!! They didn't know how much mobility he'd have or if he would eventually need to have his leg amputated... I'm freaking out...!!! This man was the extreme adventurer - underwater photographer diving freak, motorcyclist, etc.
Bottom line... he never woke up from that surgery... the NF had done too much damage and eventually destroyed all the major systems in his body. But the doctors thought that they had cut-out all the affected tissue, so they didn't understand why he was still unable to wake up... His heart finally stopped almost 4 weeks after the surgery - August 3, 2005. So please be careful for yourself, your family and friends...
05-15-2006 | 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 05TiGr8Lady
Just an FYI... Last summer when my fiance was in the ICU in a coma, the neurology team asked me if he worked with Toluene. I went out to the garage to look... He was an R/C plane modeler (the huge models!) for 20 years and I found a bunch of products he used that contained toluene... At the time the docs were unsure about the cause of the coma, but toluene exposure was definitely a possible contributing factor...
The whole story... Another warning...!!!!!!!!!
If you cut yourself or get bruised in any way, and feel like you're getting the flu, have extreme pain or high temp or get really dehydrated... Don't ignore it!!!!! When you go to the doctor or ER, DON'T let them send you home without checking for necrotizing fasciitis!!!!!!!!! This is the WORST bacterial infection you can get... the flesh eating bacteria. There are 2 kinds... aerobic (loves air so eats flesh on the outside) and anaerobic (doesn't love air, so eats flesh inside the body). It eats flesh VERY quickly!
My fiance took a serious bump to the back of his left thigh while riding his motorcycle. It started hurting really bad that night, but I couldn't see a bruise. The pain progressed, but he wouldn't let me take him to the ER until the 6th day. They did an x-ray, but said it was probably just a bad bruise and go home and take muscle relaxers. The muscle relaxers knocked him out, but after 4 more days of him being stubborn and not getting better, I called an ambulance. This time the ER doc said they thought it was just inflamation in his hip (the other leg already had osteoarthritis from an old football injury), so they sent him home with crutches, pain meds and cortisone. He was sweating really bad and begging for water, but they still sent him home! The next morning I said this is BS!!! I took him to the hospital and they checked him in. They tried to figure out what was going on for 2 days!!! At 5pm the 2nd day they took him in for a CT scan and by 10pm they took him in for emergency surgery. When the surgeon finally came out at 1am, he said they found necrotizing fasciitis in the spot where his bike hit his thigh, and they removed most of the back of his thigh!!! They didn't know how much mobility he'd have or if he would eventually need to have his leg amputated... I'm freaking out...!!! This man was the extreme adventurer - underwater photographer diving freak, motorcyclist, etc.
Bottom line... he never woke up from that surgery... the NF had done too much damage and eventually destroyed all the major systems in his body. But the doctors thought that they had cut-out all the affected tissue, so they didn't understand why he was still unable to wake up... His heart finally stopped almost 4 weeks after the surgery - August 3, 2005. So please be careful for yourself, your family and friends...
The whole story... Another warning...!!!!!!!!!
If you cut yourself or get bruised in any way, and feel like you're getting the flu, have extreme pain or high temp or get really dehydrated... Don't ignore it!!!!!
When you go to the doctor or ER, DON'T let them send you home without checking for necrotizing fasciitis!!!!!!!!! This is the WORST bacterial infection you can get... the flesh eating bacteria. There are 2 kinds... aerobic (loves air so eats flesh on the outside) and anaerobic (doesn't love air, so eats flesh inside the body). It eats flesh VERY quickly!My fiance took a serious bump to the back of his left thigh while riding his motorcycle. It started hurting really bad that night, but I couldn't see a bruise. The pain progressed, but he wouldn't let me take him to the ER until the 6th day. They did an x-ray, but said it was probably just a bad bruise and go home and take muscle relaxers. The muscle relaxers knocked him out, but after 4 more days of him being stubborn and not getting better, I called an ambulance. This time the ER doc said they thought it was just inflamation in his hip (the other leg already had osteoarthritis from an old football injury), so they sent him home with crutches, pain meds and cortisone. He was sweating really bad and begging for water, but they still sent him home! The next morning I said this is BS!!! I took him to the hospital and they checked him in. They tried to figure out what was going on for 2 days!!! At 5pm the 2nd day they took him in for a CT scan and by 10pm they took him in for emergency surgery. When the surgeon finally came out at 1am, he said they found necrotizing fasciitis in the spot where his bike hit his thigh, and they removed most of the back of his thigh!!! They didn't know how much mobility he'd have or if he would eventually need to have his leg amputated... I'm freaking out...!!! This man was the extreme adventurer - underwater photographer diving freak, motorcyclist, etc.
Bottom line... he never woke up from that surgery... the NF had done too much damage and eventually destroyed all the major systems in his body. But the doctors thought that they had cut-out all the affected tissue, so they didn't understand why he was still unable to wake up... His heart finally stopped almost 4 weeks after the surgery - August 3, 2005. So please be careful for yourself, your family and friends...
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