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Posted Jan 29, 2007 by michael7733 | | Post: 1
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In 1989 I was doing a routine cleaning of my shower with a popular liqauid chlorine bleach. The cleaning was a bit overdue, and there was some soap scum build up. About mid way through the cleaning I noticed that the fumes seemed unusually strong. Like an idiot, I ignored this knowing that the cleaning process would soon be finished. By the time I finished, my nose was running, my eyes were watering and burning, my lungs were burning, and my breathing was labored and painful. I turned to leave the shower and realized that someone had closed the door. It was then that I realized why the fumes were so strong.
Over the next 2 years, I had bronchitis at least 24 times along with extreme joint and muscle pain. I then developed a tremor which eventually was diagnosed as Parkinson's Disease. My question is this: Are there any neurotoxic gases that can form from mixing liquid chlorine and soap scum?
michael7733
Unfortunatly for you clorine gas is toxic all by its self. What would have happened is the normaly non-leathal amounts of clorine built up in the bath room doing extreme cellure damage to your sinus cavites and lungs. If you want proof of clorine's deadlyness just look to world war 2, the germans used the gas to kill hundereds at a time in a very slow, painful death.
|   | Subject: What happened to me?
Posted Mar 27, 2009 by dark2023
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Chlorine gas was used in World War one, it bears a close resemblance to chlorine gas. Everyone (including the Nazis) agreed not to use it in World War 2. What you're thinking of is hydrogen cyanide gas (used in gas chambers in ww2).
BTW-To clarify, what the original poster made IS in fact Chlorine gas not hydrogen cyanide.
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