Fifteen adolescent female students were triaged from a school of 700 persons exposed to sewer gas and arrived simultaneously at the emergency department complaining of a variety of nonspecific symptoms without physical findings. These symptoms quickly remitted with reassurance and dispersion of the group...
Health Effects of Exposure to Hydrogen Sulfide gas NIOSH Immediately Dangerous To Life or Health Concentration (IDLH):100 ppm Potential symptoms: Apnea; coma; convulsions; irritated eyes, conjunctivitis pain, lacrimation, photophobia, corneal vesiculation; respiratory system irritation; dizziness; headaches...
As a part of a project aiming to elucidate the association between respiratory and neurological symptoms and exposure in waste water treatment workers (WWWs), results from the measurements of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) when handling and transporting sewage in Norway are presented. To use the time wei...
Similarly, a recent analysis of the wastewater in Arizona, USA for SARS-CoV-2 RNA revealed that at 20 °C, the remains of virus in sewage is estimated to be at least 25%, even in a circumstance where the average time of travel of sewage through the sewer network is 10 h and the ...
and most COPD patients die from CVD or cancer rather than respiratory symptoms [37]. Despite their similarities, these disorders are often studied in isolation and the increased risk of CVD in COPD patients is often underestimated [36]. As interactions between the two diseases are not accounted ...
In the present study, we evaluated the acute response of mice exposed to IQOS aerosol, a brand-name heated tobacco product (HTP), in the lung tissue. First, the thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBA-RS) value was measured as an index to assess oxidative stress, and a significant incr...