Actually, swallowing base leads to more esophageal replacements than swallowing acid because the esophagus can handle acid (stomach fasting pH around 2 to 3).Originally Posted by E. von Hoegh
If perchance you swallow lye, just chase it with a little battery acid.
Actually no, the place I referred to was in Northern Baltimore county. & The place that had the drums buried was out near Sparrows Point. When I did Landsurvey we also worked off Marley Neck on the south side of Baltimore. CSX was buying the land for thier use, and Union Carbide owned it for years, it may have been my imagination but the trees on the property were all at 1/3 shorter than the surrounding properties. From what I heard UC dumped chemicals by the tanker load on the survey area.
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Sometimes it is easy to pin point the culprit. I developed a nasty form of asthma making platinum/palladium prints. After 5 years of making prints something happened. My whole family came down with sore throats (including me). I recovered 100% within 3 days, while the rest of the family did not. I just considered myself lucky
A week or so later, I came down with a sore throat again -- lasting 3 days (family members fine). This happened again a week or so later, this time with a deep dry cough...3 days later I am fine. It happened again a couple weeks later, but the cough was worse. Another time with even a worse cough -- something was wrong.
I finally corralated all my episodes with platinum printing the night before each occurrence. I usually coated 6 to 8 8x10 sheets at each sitting and was blow-drying them with a hair-drier...kicking platinum and palladium salts into the air. Research showed that workers in the platinum refining industry can come down with a nasty nasty form of asthma.
I started to wear a dust mask and had no further problem. But due to putting the platinum and palladium dust into the air and into the room (I work at the university), I switched to air drying -- and got better prints, too.
I now have permanent asthma, fortunately rather low-grade (I went my first 45+ years without any lung problems) that hits me only when I catch a cold or am around a lot of smoke.
So, say hello to the tooth fairy for me-- and ask her to bring me a new set of lungs.
Scary.
HC 110 & Ansco 130.
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
Scary, yes. Will it happen to most people doing the same as I? Probably not. Why me? I don't know, except I have been doing photo since 1977 and have been in charge of the darkroom at a university since 1991 -- so I have been around a lot of chemicals for a long time -- and for most of that time, not too careful about it.
Vaughn
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I now have permanent asthma, fortunately rather low-grade (I went my first 45+ years without any lung problems) that hits me only when I catch a cold or am around a lot of smoke.
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It's more likely that you have an acute case of bronchitis which is reversible if you remove yourself from the irritant. If you don't, then it progresses to the chronic bronchitis which is irreversible. I caught the acute stage while attending college in San Diego. The irritant in my case was the smog that was being transported into San Diego from LA: In the evening an offshore wind would blow all the smog in LA offshore and during the night it would drift south only to be blown ashore in San Diego with the onshore wind in the morning. Medical autopsies in LA county of young people indicated that most were suffering from acute bronchitis. My symptoms cleared-up within three weeks of moving to the San Francisco Peninsula.
I had asthma as a child but " out grew" it by age 11. I saw an add for Primatene on television and took 99 cents out of my piggy bank and gave it to the pharmacists for a bottle. I took [b]one] pill and never had an attack of asthma again. "Amazing"
I thought, "coincidence" said the doctors that treated me for years.
I'm not an expert on either of these disorders but from experience wheezing, shortness of breath, and a cough are symptomatic of bronchitis while asthma, in addition to those symptoms, is accompanied by a difficulty in breathing that can become severe.
If you have acute bronchitis it is essential to remove yourself from the irritant or it will progress to the chronic stage which is non reversible. If you have asthma....well, try Primaten
Well, I am going by what my doctor said, and I would think bronchitis would be more of a "wet" cough. It has been about ten years since I made the connection between my platinum/palladium sessions and my sore throats and dry coughs (no noticable phlem production) -- and about 5 years since the doctor diagnosed asthma. I do have an inhaler (abuterol) if needed, but the stuff hits me like speed. Its okay if I am physically active, but it has me tossing and turning all night, so I don't use it before bedtime.
And as I mentioned, my lungs are almost 100% until I am around smoke or I get sick (hits the lungs harder than it ever did before). I do little platinum printing these days, but will be doing some more when I get the chance. Mostly I do carbon printing -- cheaper and also a more beautiful process in many ways (my opinion, of course).
And there is little or no industry around here (some timber mills -- the paper mills closed down ), and there is enough rain to keep the air clean...relatively few tobacco smokers, and in general they are pretty good about not smoking around others (always exceptions, of course), and the occasionally the whiff of the o' wacky tobaccy is in the air.
Yeah, and turn green from the monitor tan you get.
Except for the possible flame retardant option, I don't think PCBs are used to make PC Boards.
Circuit boards have their own risks... Lead and fumes from wave solder machines, metal etching processes, coatings, etc...
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