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Bad Mixture - Chlorine Gas Attack!
15 years ago
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Apparently I fail at cleaning.
So I was (for once) cleaning out my bathroom and my girlfriend is away at work so I'm doing this completely alone and unsupervised. But I'm an ADULT so I know what I'm doing!
Well, first step was to get rid of things that we didn't need. So this nasty ass mouthwash I bought a while back had to go. Boop! Down the bath tub drain with you!
Ten minutes later, I forgot I had poured mouthwash down the drain (with a 20-something% alcohol content) and poured bleach into the tub to clean in. Well to my surprise, I watched the bleach hit a puddle of the alcoholic mouthwash that was still sitting in the bottom of the tub and the mouthwash color went from green to light blue and started giving off a strange smell.
I thought nothing of it, but figured I should wash it down the drain, just in case. Less than a minute into this, I felt a burning at the back of my throat. I pulled my shirt up over my nose and mouth to finish rinsing down the chemical mixture, then high tailed it out of there into some open air to let the bathroom vent (we keep a window open in there at all times).
I posted on Yahoo! Answers to see if anyone knew whether or not alcoholic mouthwash and bleach can make a deadly combination and what I should do about it, because there was no information found using Google Search.
Well...I got one answer that says I created 'chlorine gas' and then huffed it unintentionally. Which is probably why it burned and there's a dry patch in the back of my throat now that won't go away. He also said to leave it alone for about an hour before going back into the bathroom because most masks can't filter out chlorine gas.
Now, I dunno if it's true or not but if it is...damn. I fail and fail hard. Luckily, high exposure for a short term will basically just irritate your lungs and throat...more exposure can cause vomiting, chest pain etc... and even more can cause death.
I figure since I didn't get to the vomiting or chest pain then I'll be just fine. Just gonna give it an hour to air out before I go back to cleaning.
Go me!
Love,
Champ
P.S. It's a good thing I lurked on the internet for an answer to bleach mixtures, though. I did NOT know it wasn't okay to mix bleach and ammonia. Apparently that one IS a deadly mixture that can kill you with little exposure. I have never done it before, luckily, and now I will never do it at all!
So I was (for once) cleaning out my bathroom and my girlfriend is away at work so I'm doing this completely alone and unsupervised. But I'm an ADULT so I know what I'm doing!
Well, first step was to get rid of things that we didn't need. So this nasty ass mouthwash I bought a while back had to go. Boop! Down the bath tub drain with you!
Ten minutes later, I forgot I had poured mouthwash down the drain (with a 20-something% alcohol content) and poured bleach into the tub to clean in. Well to my surprise, I watched the bleach hit a puddle of the alcoholic mouthwash that was still sitting in the bottom of the tub and the mouthwash color went from green to light blue and started giving off a strange smell.
I thought nothing of it, but figured I should wash it down the drain, just in case. Less than a minute into this, I felt a burning at the back of my throat. I pulled my shirt up over my nose and mouth to finish rinsing down the chemical mixture, then high tailed it out of there into some open air to let the bathroom vent (we keep a window open in there at all times).
I posted on Yahoo! Answers to see if anyone knew whether or not alcoholic mouthwash and bleach can make a deadly combination and what I should do about it, because there was no information found using Google Search.
Well...I got one answer that says I created 'chlorine gas' and then huffed it unintentionally. Which is probably why it burned and there's a dry patch in the back of my throat now that won't go away. He also said to leave it alone for about an hour before going back into the bathroom because most masks can't filter out chlorine gas.
Now, I dunno if it's true or not but if it is...damn. I fail and fail hard. Luckily, high exposure for a short term will basically just irritate your lungs and throat...more exposure can cause vomiting, chest pain etc... and even more can cause death.
I figure since I didn't get to the vomiting or chest pain then I'll be just fine. Just gonna give it an hour to air out before I go back to cleaning.
Go me!
Love,
Champ
P.S. It's a good thing I lurked on the internet for an answer to bleach mixtures, though. I did NOT know it wasn't okay to mix bleach and ammonia. Apparently that one IS a deadly mixture that can kill you with little exposure. I have never done it before, luckily, and now I will never do it at all!
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The mouthwash has acid in it and when you mix acid and bleach (apparently) you get Chlorine Gas.
But I'm sure I'm fine. Higher exposures will cause vomiting and pain before it kills you and I have neither.
I do, however, keep smelling mouthwash on and off like...deep in my nose :\ and the back of my throat is really dry.
hope you feel better and uhhh don't die and stuff
If you see mouthwash or toothpaste in the sink run it down with water before using bleach
dope
Hope your throat feels better and there's no serious damage. <3
Yeah, bleach and ammonia... bad stuff... honestly, it's not really good to mix bleach with anything XD