Toxicologist Answers More Poison Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

I'm Anne Chappelle, I'm a certified

toxicologist

, and I'm here today to answer your Twitter

questions

. This is

poison

support

. First, we have a Kooby Liken question, friend, what makes

poison

poisonous? Well, a poison is a substance that can cause harm to any living organism or the environment, but really it's all about the dose low dose less effects high dose generally higher effects if you drank six liters of water that could probably kill you, How about 118 cups of coffee in a row or 75? espressos that would give you a caffeine overdose something else that could kill you right on your table 225 grams of salt there are a lot of things that you may not think are poisonous, but in the right dose they are definitely young, what is sun poisoning.

I thought it was just called sunburn. Both sun poisoning and sunburn are caused by overexposure to ultraviolet rays. A severe sunburn turns into sun poisoning when it goes from that hot rash to blisters. Feeling like you have the flu. Dizziness or nausea. Sun poisoning is a matter of your body. immune reaction to all that sun damage, so what do you do if you have any of those things? Make sure you drink lots and lots of water, that sun damage will dehydrate you and dehydration is the cause of many other problems. the sun apply cold compresses, not ice, to your skin, take an over-the-counter anti-inflammatory agent, and also walk dad, so if one breaks a mercury thermometer and then spends an hour forensically collecting tiny dots of mercury from the floor How could one safely dispose of evidence by asking a friend?

It is very, very important that you be careful and thorough in how you actually clean up this spill. Mercury can vaporize, get into the air, and you can breathe it in, so you want to see if. You can have the windows open, please do not touch them. I know it's fun to let it play in your hand, but you can't do it any

more

, so wear some gloves, be very careful, use tape to hit the floor and clean. To finish it off, you can use wet paper towels, all that stuff, those cleaning supplies, put them in some kind of giant Ziploc type bag and then you'll have to wait until you have a hazardous waste collection day and dispose of them properly.

Do not vacuum spilled mercury. Mercury is very, very dangerous for the environment and it's not good for you either. From Rick Nowak, What is the most poisonous mushroom? It is a poisonous mushroom. It has to have the most poisonous well if it really? I want to know that it is probably the death fungus. Within 6 to 12 hours you feel incredible pain, nausea, vomiting, violent chills, muscle twitches, all these unpleasant things and eventually, if the dose was tight enough, you will end up having liver failure, multiple organ failure and death by sixth crimson I have been trying for a long time to explain the difference between venom and venom when it comes to snakes to get my friends to help, the difference really is how the venom is delivered to the person being given the venom or being exposed to. through breathing it, touching it or ingesting it, a poison that is also a poison, but that is how you get that poison, which is

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of a sting or a bite, so it is more active, you eat a frog, which is a poison, you are bitten by a copperhead snake that is poisonous.

Wildlife Defense Attack asks what is compound 1080. Compound 1080 is an extremely potent predicide, the predicide is designed to kill predators, so if you have sheep and goats in your field and you have a coyote problem , this is what you would use. Because compound 1080 is so potent, they have a special way of administering it to avoid killing large numbers of animals in their field. There is a collar that they put around the neck, so it has a collar with a 1080 reservoir right along the neck so that when the coyote comes and grabs the neck, it bites into that reservoir and immediately gets poisoned and dies.

Lightscapes asks what a toxicology study is just like there are different types of doctors. There are many different types of

toxicologist

s. I am an occupational toxicologist and my job is. To see all the things that could be in a workplace, food toxicologists, for example, work to ensure our food supply is safe. I even know a toxicologist who works in a bell bat warehouse, google how to detect poison, unfortunately to detect a poison. I'm going to need a little more information if the lead singer is Brett Michaels then I'm sure it's poison, if it's just bad medicine I'm sorry it's Bon Jovi, if it's party poison that's my chemical romance, asks Caitlyn Rebecca, that's right.

Alcohol is actually a poison or anything can be a poison in the right dose and alcohol is definitely a poison. If you drink too much, first of all, alcohol can damage your central nervous system, which can slow your breathing. A byproduct of alcohol metabolism is the formation of acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is a chemical that really likes to damage parts of the liver in the long term, slowing down exposure over time to alcohol and its metabolites can cause cirrhosis and other types of liver damage eventually leading to possible liver cancer. liver by lk juvenju 75 mad hatters were mad because of lead mercury anyone know why i do it it was mercury the mercury was used to help make the different furs they used for the hats it helped that firm rug very well it also stiffened the fibers and was made of very high quality felt that was going to be What is used in the hat making part of the process is that the hat is vaporized, which releases all that mercury into the air and then they informed him that they said they were mad hatters , it is due to many of the psychological symptoms that overexposure to mercury caused hallucinations dizziness tremors one thinks of the mad hatters actually as something from the victorian era but it was actually not until the 1940s that in the united states the governor of connecticut banned the use of mercury in hats appypaw asks how long does it take for poison to wear off work, some poisons can make you sick immediately after ingesting, breathing or touching them, other poisons can take a lifetime to really manifest in their adverse effects, something like cyanide.

You've seen them eat those poisonous pills in the movies that can definitely kill you within a year. Within minutes, cyanide is a very toxic chemical and is extremely potent. When you are exposed to cyanide, it quickly enters your cell and stops your cell's ability to produce energy. You see the seizures. You have a heart attack. You have different problems inside your heart. It's all because cyanide is really good at getting into the body and into those cells, where it irreversibly stops all energy production. Let's take another example, like lettuce contaminated with e coli, you eat the sandwich, you're happy and then that bacteria produces a toxin that slowly goes away.

It is released and absorbed in the intestine and the rest of the body, so it often takes a few days for e coli to begin to exert its adverse effect; that's one of the reasons food poisoning is so hard to diagnose, so you have to go back to food you ate maybe three or four days ago and i can't even remember what i had for breakfast 96 barry asks if a poison expires Will it still be poisonous or not? In reality, it really depends on some medications, some pesticides, some chemicals that are poisons break down very easily when exposed to moisture in the air.

Some poisons are what I would consider stable, no matter how long they sit there they will still be as potent as the day they came out. from a2 paths factory the media asks what the long-term effects of lead poisoning are. The problem with lead is that it is stored in the bones as we age and we naturally lose bone density. Lead is released slowly when swallowed by a young child. lead paint will be seen with a lower IQ, potentially hearing problems in adults many times, the adverse effects most associated with lead exposure is high blood pressure and what happens when you have constant high blood pressure you have a higher risk of suffering from it. stroke and heart attack larson asks what is the deadliest poison bacteria clostridium botulinum these are usually happy little microbes that live in the soil when deprived of oxygen they produce the deadliest botulinum toxin in the world you can find botulism toxin in containers of expired food does not Eating that botulism toxin causes an inhibition of the release of acetylcholine as shown here, so if you can't release acetylcholine then you can't contract your muscles, then you can't really breathe and your heart won't work properly, but There is actually a The good thing about botulism toxin is called botox.

There are many people who really don't want certain muscles in their face to contract more, they go to the doctor and get a botox injection. You can also use botulism toxin to treat various other types of conditions such as migraines certain rapid blinking diseases you can also receive botox injections to stop excessive sweating chae the young slave asked how an overdose of pills really works genuinely curious an overdose does not mean An overdose necessarily means that you have also taken a lot of that particular medication and it could cause adverse effects that are detrimental to life and health.

Another way you can overdose results from a combination, perhaps of different medications that you would normally take separately and when combined, they have the same desired effect and then that overwhelms your body and that may be what sets you off. Bush. Here's another example: you develop a tolerance to a certain drug for a while and then you stop taking it, your body returns to the previous levels it was able to metabolize it, and then suddenly you take another high dose thinking, hey, that's it. the dose you used to take and that causes you to overdose ok adele pras how fast does hemlock work?

I'm thinking I should stockpile Brompton cocktails in the 1930s, one Brompton cocktail was commonly given to terminally ill people was this crazy mix of morphine, cocaine, alcohol, anti-nausea agents and tranquilizers. The purpose of a brompton cocktail was to relieve pain and help you stay awake enough to be able to talk to your friends when they came to visit you on your deathbed, you also asked about hemlock, hemlock is a plant whose leaves and especially the roots are very very poisonous so you wouldn't really take a brompton cocktail and add some hemlock to it because the brompton cocktail was really made. not to help you die, but to help you be happy and pain-free when your friends came to visit you.

Nyx blue pen. How poisonous is the pen ink. It is not very toxic according to the world health organization. Pens. Felt pens. All pens do not contain enough toxic ingredients, even if you sucked on them, to cause serious adverse effects. However, you may have a question about blue tongue from a sports expert. Has anyone ever had a rebound poison ivy rash? No, just me, perfect, this is not uncommon if you have a bad poison ivy rash, sometimes the doctor will give you a steroid shot to help calm your immune system so the rash goes away, if the medication wears off sooner until it is completely healed, then you may have what they call a rebound rash.

Those are all the

questions

I could find on Twitter, so until next time, it's Anne Chappelle with

support

from Poison.