inhaled anti freeze help

[rangerrager]

hey
so i opened my radiator cap and it was still warm so vapors were coming out and i inhaled some and my mouth tasted like anti feeze? this happened like 20 minutes ago.do you think im gonna be okay?i know anti freeze is really bad

 

[flyingbrick]

You'll be fine. Just have a glass of water if your worried.

 

[rangerrager]

ok man.thank you.just got a little worries cause i know anti freeze is some bad stuff

 

[r1hatman]

As long as you didn't drink it you'll be fine! Just snort some water up your nose and swish some water around and spit it out. Smelling antifreeze won't hurt you.

 

[wahlstrom1]

Unless you sat there and inhaled fumes until you passed out, you'll be fine.

 

[AllanD]

If you actually swallowed a bunch it could wreck your liver, but you know what they give you as an antidote to protect your liver?

Alcohol....

Sounds like it's time for Tequila shooters dude!!!

AD

 

[rangerrager]

so wait did you just give me a doctors order to drink? sweeeeeetttttttt now only if i could get a doctor to write that down for me.lol..so you think i will be okay guy?

 

[Ranger Dave (B25)]

No. You're gonna die.

Someday.

 

[rangerrager]

arent we all

 

[t0x1k]

Well, I know it's not anti-freeze, but I inhaled concentrated gasoline fumes and had the worst breath for a couple hours. I'm still alive and it's been 5 years.
I've probably eaten the equivalent to a quart of oil.
Inhaled enough paint fumes that my snot was the color of the paint for a week.
I'm still alive, allbeit I'm gonna probably die sooner than if I never worked on my own cars.

 

[master hec0]

Well, I know it's not anti-freeze, but I inhaled concentrated gasoline fumes and had the worst breath for a couple hours. I'm still alive and it's been 5 years.
I've probably eaten the equivalent to a quart of oil.
Inhaled enough paint fumes that my snot was the color of the paint for a week.
I'm still alive, allbeit I'm gonna probably die sooner than if I never worked on my own cars.

the cancer be brewing in your lungs

 

[R***A**N**G**E***R]

hey
so i opened my radiator cap and it was still warm so vapors were coming out and i inhaled some and my mouth tasted like anti feeze? this happened like 20 minutes ago.do you think im gonna be okay?i know anti freeze is really bad

Toxic dose > 0.5 mL/kg (approx. 0.5 g/kg)

Lethal dose = 1.4 mL/kg (approx. 1.5 g/kg), or 100 mL for adults (70 kg).

With early diagnosis and correct treatment even patients who have ingested more than 500 mL of ethylene glycol have survived (Gabow, 1986; Turk, 1986; Vites, 1984; Peterson, 1981).

So to summarize as long as it was a quick or pretty short inhaling encounter and not any actual INGESTION into your stomach you will be fine!! But if you sit there for many minutes at a time and inhale you could get dizzy or up set stomach etc etc

 

[TheTopher]

Had a big drop of it fall in my mouth while I was trying to break a bolt loose working on my Integra.


I just swished some beer in my mouth, spit it out. Finished off the bottle and went back to work. ...Except this time with a paper towel wrapped around where it was dripping from.

 

[adsm08]

Dude, one day I opened my rad cap b/c the cap was cool to the touch, but apparently still under pressure. I got a mouthful of the stuff, just went and spit it out and swished some water around. Never got sick from it.

Heck, I've even swallowed a few drops of the stuff. The ethylene glycol has to be ingested, usually for a full grown human about a mouthful, for it to be harmful.

Inhaling it won't kill you. Go out back, have a few shooters with AllanD while you review his 2012 PA Gubernatorial write-in campaign, and shoot some afrin to get rid of the smell.

 

[Twitch57]

stuff taste like mountain dew without carbonation... just saying