Can be dry-erase marker fumes harm you or your children?

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toluene

The Canadian Centre for Work Safety Web site publishes these warnings about toluene and xylene, toluene, methyl benzene, which is also known.

toluene WHMIS classified as “very toxic”. Toluene may cause death if swallowed. This can damage the unborn child if a pregnant mother is breathing smoke toluene.

If you breathe it in tight spaces, such as a class, start your throat hurts, and it can cause damage to the nervous system. Continued exposure may become unconscious, but if you have your wits about you, you suspect the toluene fumes that you have breathed your own dry erase markers, if some of the following symptoms.
* Dizziness
* Headache
* drowsiness
* Confusion
* Nausea

contact with the eyes or on the skin can cause damage similar to breathing, because it is absorbed by the skin. If you swallow some markers such as children enter the lungs, it can damage the lungs and drown you.

If you work in a noisy environment (eg classroom) and toluene breathing smoke, then we increase industrial deafness.

emergency measures if the odor of toluene or xylene

fire by turning off all the things that could cause a fire. You can not remove the chance that a static spark, but it can not be avoided.

If the toxin was breathing, rush the victim to fresh air (for example, evacuated the classroom, you can smell the marker solvent). If someone feels bad, call the poison center without delay.

If you get the skin (thankfully you will know immediately that your skin if the solvent is a white board markers, because of the unusual color of the skin), and then gently brush (do not want to break blisters) and thoroughly with soap that is gentle and non-abrasive, just-warm water and keep it flowing under the tap, which is only a quarter of the hot hours or more.

When you get in your eyes, rinse with lukewarm gently flowing under the tap for five minutes, keeping the eyelids open with your fingers. If your eyes are still sore, call your doctor.

If the patient vomits, the victim tries to lean forward to prevent breathing in the lungs – which can be fatal lung damage.

Xylene

This solvent is disguised as dimethyl Methyltoluene or xylene

The WHMIS Classification “very toxic”.

Health hazards toluene is very similar, so I will not repeat them here, but the chance of starting a fire appears to be much worse. Xylene vapors can be ignited by static electricity in the air and create an explosion.

harmful water as a solvent

Apparently if you drink several liters of water every day you can get a “water intoxication.” I did not know that it is possible to drink enough water!

larger problems with fluoride and chlorine in drinking water, and even more of a problem killing bacteria from DBP (Disinfection By Products) of drinking water. DBPSK can be thousands of times toxic than fluoride in drinking water.

Fortunately, dry erase markers, using water as a solvent amount of water that you can drink is not dangerous and does not emit toxic fumes. The water vapor is not flammable, and only the very young children argue that water damage to the skin. And some kids make water-soluble paint markers can wash clothes without using water detergent.

Warning: You may markers, they say: “Toluene Free” or “Not toluene,” and instead they use the xylene solvent.

The main disadvantage of the water-based markers that writing takes a little longer to dry, but this means that the “new” markers you buy less likely to get dehydrated in the warehouse before they receive them.

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Source by Mark D Wright

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