Posted on 06/13/2005 3:59:03 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts99.html
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How can hydraulic fluids affect my health?
Little is known about how hydraulic fluids can affect your health. Since hydraulic fluids are actually mixtures of chemicals, some of the effects seen may be caused by additives in the hydraulic fluids.
In people, the effects of breathing air with high levels of hydraulic fluids are not known. Drinking large amounts of some types of hydraulic fluids can cause pneumonia, intestinal bleeding, or death in humans. Weakness of the hands was seen in a worker who touched a lot of hydraulic fluids.
Rabbits that inhaled very high levels of one type of hydraulic fluid had trouble breathing, congested lungs, and became drowsy. The nervous systems of animals that swallowed or inhaled other hydraulic fluids were affected immediately with tremors, diarrhea, sweating, breathing difficulty, and sometimes several weeks later with weakness of the limbs, or paralysis. The immediate effects are caused because hydraulic fluids stop the action of certain enzymes, called cholinesterases, in the body. There are no reports of people swallowing or breathing the types of hydraulic fluids that cause these effects. When certain types of hydraulic fluids were put into the eyes of animals or allowed to touch the skin of people or animals for short periods of time, redness and swelling occurred. It is not known whether hydraulic fluids can cause birth defects or reproductive effects.
Not just hydraulic fluid, but used hydraulic fluid has been introduced into these patients.
The staff 'sterilizing' the equipment is so incompetent it does not notice the difference in smell between disinfectant or hydraulic fluid. Astounding.
The staff using the instruments complain about the oiliness, and nothing is done? Criminal!
Duke of Oil...
LOL!!!!
My Uncle owned an oil change place for a time and that was it's name.....
Amazing incompetence.
Discharging toxic chemicals into innappropriate containers.
Failure to mark and dispose used material.
Accepting and using unsealed chemistry for use in sterilization.
Failing to check the chemistry when attempting to repair the washers.
Wiping down and then using instruments obviously contaminated with a petrochemical.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
The elevator repair crew should be fired, fined and jailed.
One can only guess who the low-wage instrument cleaners were.
As for the nurses and doctors who used these items, didn't they take a few chemistry classes? I get the feeling they've never changed the oil in their own cars.
Soap creates bubbles...
"This hydraulic fluid not tested on any animals."
Does anyone know the manufacturer of the instrument washer?
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