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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:43 PM

Is the Agency of Toxic Substances and Affliction Registry (ATSDR) serious enough for you?

Scientists have institute that the three forms of xylene have very like effects on health. No health effects accept been noted at the background levels that people are exposed to on a daily ground. Brusque-term exposure of people to high levels of xylene can cause irritation of the skin, optics, nose, and throat; difficulty in breathing; dumb function of the lungs; delayed response to a visual stimulus; dumb retentiveness; stomach discomfort; and possible changes in the liver and kidneys. Both short- and long-term exposure to loftier concentrations of xylene tin also cause a number of furnishings on the nervous system, such equally headaches, lack of musculus coordination, dizziness, confusion, and changes in one's sense of residual. Some people exposed to very high levels of xylene for a short period of fourth dimension take died. Almost of the information on wellness effects in humans exposed for long periods of time is from studies of workers employed in industries that make or use xylene. Those workers were exposed to levels of xylene in air far greater than the levels normally encountered by the general population. Many of the effects seen after their exposure to xylene could have been caused past exposure to other chemicals that were in the air with xylene.

Results of studies in animals indicate that large amounts of xylene tin can cause changes in the liver and harmful effects on the kidneys, lungs, heart, and nervous system. Curt-term exposure to very high concentrations of xylene causes death in animals, likewise equally muscular spasms, incoordination, hearing loss, changes in behavior, changes in organ weights, and changes in enzyme activity. Animals that were exposed to xylene on their pare had irritation and inflammation of the skin. Long-term exposure of animals to depression concentrations of xylene has not been well studied, but in that location is some information that long-term exposure of animals tin cause harmful effects on the kidney (with oral exposure) or on the nervous system (with inhalation exposure).

Information from fauna studies is not acceptable to determine whether or not xylene causes cancer in humans. Both the International Bureau for Inquiry on Cancer (IARC) and EPA have establish that at that place is insufficient information to determine whether or not xylene is carcinogenic and consider xylene not classifiable every bit to its human carcinogenicity.

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Posted past Paul3 on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:eighteen PM

DigitalGriffin,
FYI: The knock wasn't on you so much equally it was on Wiki.  Wiki has a deserved reputation for errors, and no one should take it seriously.  Now that yous have provided a credible source, note the terms used in the quoted text:

"Long term xylene exposure", "may crusade", "not enough information", "long term occupational exposure", "very picayune information bachelor", "inadequate reporting", "poor matching of controls", etc.

So by reading the above, it appears that in that location might be some danger with xylene if you used it for 8 hours a day for years on finish, merely there isn't actually any proof of that.  This is not something that sounds like it should exist very worrisome.  I bet you'd live a longer, better life if you ate right and excercised regularly over the mere absenteeism of xylene.  Note that I'1000 not saying there isn't a danger, just it doesn't sound like it's something to get that concered about.

jeffrey-wimberly,
Using your quoted text, information technology outlines far more than serious consequences.  Notwithstanding, notation how many times the words, "high levels of xylene", "very loftier levels of xylene", or "far greater than the levels normally encountered past the general population" are used when describing these more dire situations.  Once more, it doesn't audio similar annihilation to worry about in model cement...unless 1 is swimming in it.

Trynn_Allen2,
Smile [:)] Pick 1:
"Looks like I picked the incorrect week to cease..
a) ...smoking cigarettes."
b) ...drinking."
c) ...taking amphetimines."
d) ...sniffing mucilage."
e) all of the above Wink [;)]

BTW folks, if yous want a real dangerous substance that gets a lot of use in this hobby, stay the heck abroad from Dihydrogen Monoxide: http://www.dhmo.org  That stuff tin impale you.
Edit: Darn, someone (mfm37) beat me to it! Big Smile [:D]

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