A friend of mine tried to get me to huff paint. I kind of distanced myself from him. A few months later I found he was living in a state hospital with no hope of recovery. He was 14 years old.
@@perf7This happened in the 1980s. I'm almost 60 now and desite encouraging him not to do it, I still feel guilty. So, I pass on his story. Who know who may read it.
I used to be a painter. I actually had to argue with other coworkers why I needed safety gear while working with certain types of paint. People can be quite ignorant when it comes to safety
Lots of people assume themselves to be basically invincible to anything short of a gun, right up until they're half awake and in pain while the ambulance team loads them up to rush for the hospital. Any safety rule you have ever seen or will ever see is written in the blood of those too foolish to respect the risk, don't join them as a statistic if you can avoid it, and if your boss asks you to do something obviously stupid and dangerous you have the right to refuse, and report them, especially if you are inexperienced at the task at hand
this is why masks to filter the air you breath are important to your health safety when your exposed to paint thinner's in your work place as long term exposure build's up over time to have this kind of effect on people he should have read the msds on that paint thinner
Sometimes, I'm not even sure that it's ignorance so much as some kind of paranoid distrust. When I worked in research, one of our studies required us to wear a full face respirator and vacuum suit anytime we entered the room. As I exited this room one day, with danger and inhalant and potential for chemical burn signs plastered all over it, a couple of my own coworkers stopped to harass me for "being paranoid" and "believing that gear will do anything to help." Like, yes guys, we are actively the ones who do that testing. I do believe in the science we're performing (most of us, maybe not that particular team).
@@5h4d0w5l1f3 well if they do not want to wear the protection they can be the gynae pigs aka test subject to see what happens without the protections lol
@Quiet Wanderer Indeed. It is true that all rules are created in blood, whether literally or metaphorically. In the case of literal, death, or serious injury are reasons why we make new rules. Metaphorically, things like the banking crisis, the crypto crisis, white collar crime laws, and the like, our reasons why we make rules for those.
Tbh when I use permanent markers, the smell has almost something aluring to it, its interesting. Ive never actually huffed anything or abused drugs though, thankfully I had the right environment to keep me from going there.
I worked in a military industrial paint shop briefly. The head painter had been there for almost 40yrs. He could hardly breathe, barely made sense when he spoke, had no teeth, and had the mentality of a child. He also never wore PPE when spraying or handling chemicals. He was my motivation for finishing school and getting a better job away from chemicals.
I feel both sorry for him and frustrated. So many workers laugh at OSHA regs and brag about flaunting their rules. It's still sad, but not auprising when they get hurt.
@Backwater Native I do too, but I'm more frustrated then anything because I'm sure that at least 20 years ago he would have had access to the knowledge that he should have been wearing. Worth noting that there are plenty of options for PPE to protect you while painting. It's not a case of aborting a job because of the dangers, but a case of not being properly prepared for said job.
I was a painter for 17 years. I sprayed often and never wore protective equipment. I began to feel weak after working out. Then I noticed I could only work 4 hours before I just couldnt work anymore. Eventually, I ended up sick and often bed-ridden for months! I couldnt shower or cook or exert my body without it completely shutting down afterwards. Even mental strain resulted in my being unable to get up. I totally prepared to die. I am not entirely sure what happened because the doctors could not find the issue but I believe the consistent inhalation of paint fumes (including industrial coatings) damaged my liver. I cleansed the crap out of my body and i seem to have recovered. I dont feel 100% but I am currently able to work again. Putting anything into the lungs that wasnt meant to be there is dangerous.
Many organs are impacted ... liver and lings and kidneys and nervous system. Even the heart. Do some good daily walking ... including longer hikes of 90 minutes to half a day. Start slowly but build up your endurance gradually.
@@howard5992 thank you so much! That is kind of what I did. At first, i could only walk a few hundred meters. Almost didnt make it home a couple of times! It was scary.
If your liver was damaged, it would have showed up in blood work right away. Thankfully, there are tons of blood tests that can indicate liver function, and then further testing can be done to discover the full extent of the problem. I'm glad you're doing better now! Work on your breathing to get bigger inhales of oxygen and let out more carbon dioxide. Your body loves oxygen.
I really like this guy. I have been a ER doc for over 30 years and I am also a Forensic Pathologist (not currently practicing Pathology). There are no You Tubers that deliver Medical scenarios in such a comprehensive and rapid manner. I learn something new I can actually use in my practice each time I watch an episode. Bernard, keep up the good work.
Natalia Focus on your pre- med studies first, so you can get into medical school. If pathology interests you, contact practicing pathologists and ask if you may shadow them. You'll need to be concerned about pathology residency much later once you get into medical school. Look into pathology related opportunities when you're in medical school.
I wish he'd skip the endless word definitions though. They interrupt the flow too much and are unnecessary. He could just say what they mean instead of constantly explaining what "hypo" and "emia" mean.
i really don’t know how medical people keep up with all new things we are learning and even old problems which you don’t see very often. you’re amazing!! it’s truthfully great that he is informing us non-medical guys, but even doctors, nurses. . . way to go!!! :) be safe and take care and many thanks :) 🌷🌱
I had a friend who sprayed xylene at a car part factory. One day he told a story about being at work spraying, and according to other people, he turned to them and asked "can you hear that?" "Hear what?" "It sounds like chimes, like angels singing." They ended up having to drag him out of the booth into fresh air. I think he quit that job not long after that.
Anyone notice how dr Bernard spent the first part of the video saying how terribly dangerous any inhalant is? If that’s true we should lock up dentists that give it to little kids in huge quantities, not just a balloon full. It’s almost like it’s actually safe or something despite what he said at the beginning.
Years ago I was a painter for an industrial company and the United States Government, On a weapons system {Anti-Tank Missiles} This was all spray paint and some of it was quite toxic, however, I demanded that they supply me with the proper respirator and filters for the type of paint I was applying, the filter cartridges, two per respirator, were $9.00 each, and the life of each, when exposed to air was 20 hours, regardless of whether you were breathing through them or they were hanging on the wall, which is what the previous painter did, but when I took mine off for lunch or breaks and before going home, I keep them in an airtight bag, they didn't like having to spend that much every 20 hours, but I told them to buy them or find another painter, they continued to buy them, Thank You Dr, Bernard.
@@alienvomitsex Sheesh. I have worked for several DOD contractors, and they all went to fairly extreme lengths to insure the workplace was as safe as possible. Mostly because you simply would cease to exist as a company if you didn't. But we had techs in a lab working with a fairly basic epoxy worry about the fumes... extensive (and expensive) testing showed there was no real danger from them, and life went on. We *never* had any issues with workplace safety, or even the remotest of "pushback" from management for bringing up issues. We basically had a good management team, who all had "come up through the ranks" and had worked at the same place for decades, starting off pushing brooms and, well, pumping epoxy. I would simply have instantly quit any company I felt was compromising my personal safety. There are ALWAYS other jobs. No mere work is worth your life, and when they discover they can't retain skilled workers they will either change their tune... or go out of business. Either way, it's a win.
They can go with $9 every day or enjoy OSHA shutdowns, fines and being prohibited all federal contracts. I suspect they'll go with the $9. Retired Army and cleared DoD contractor here. I'm very diplomatic about safety, "do you want me to shove that missile up your ass sideways, the fire the high energy igniter?", they universally go with safety. Probably because the missile is longer than they are wide...
This is actually a pretty good warning about VOCs in general (Volatile Organic Chenicals). Everything from the new car smell, to paint chemicals, to household cleaners, to cooking at high temperatures, and even furniture can cause significant long term damage over time. It's not as acute as this case but you can easily imagine how 30 years of inhaling low doses of chemicals like this can cause organ damage and cancer. I strongly encourage everyone to get a VOC monitor and implement VOC mitigation to avoid these substantial health hazards that people carelessly underestimate.
Related: the PPE shown while he's talking about industrial workers etc. is an example of *inadequate* PPE for VOCs. For anyone out there working with substances that emit VOCs- a procedural mask or dust mask, or even dust filters on a respirator are all inadequate. A proper VOC-specific respirator is necessary.
@@luc8254 some gas stoves can release VOCS over time, if you cook in a well ventilated area or with a stove hood that has a fan it can mitigate the risk
This is part of why I'm furious with my mom for exposing me to various smokes throughout my life, particularly cigarette smoke, but nowadays it's marijuana smoke (I still live with her). She says it's fine, that I'm making up feeling ill from it, just because I'm not the one smoking it. I'm still inhaling the byproducts! It's just nausea, headache, dizziness, and mild confusion for now, but I could end up with a serious condition because of her and she just doesn't care...
It enrages me how corporations, knowing the danger and toxicity of VOCs, choose to put profits over consumer well-being and continue to expose us to dangerous chemicals.
My father owned a metal plating shop that I worked in and we used trichloroethylene as a degreaser. It worked amazing in that regard, but my dad had a guy that was unbeknownst to him, taking cups of it home and huffing it. He did this for about 2 weeks and one day he didn’t show up to work. They did a wellness check on him and found him dead in his apartment. Apparently, the trichlor literally dried up his lungs and killed him. Don’t huff anything but air, seriously.
@@adam-mh5ou AND YOU WOULD KNOW! Lipid production by Cryptococcus curvatus growing on commercial xylose and subsequent valorization of fermentation waste-waters for the production of edible and medicinal mushrooms
Trich is insane, in the tank we had there was a cloud of vapour above the surface, I'd heard if you moved your bare hand through it, it would come out white from defattening the skin. Also absolutely terrible for the surrounding environment As always, the best products are always the most awful ones haha
Trichloroethylene is great. Glad I live in a state where you can still get it. Yes, I am careful with it. BTW if you heat it to 600 degrees it turns to phosgene. I think Phosgene poisoning would be one of the worst ways to go. I heard about a guy at a DuPont plant in West Virginia who got sprayed with phosgene. Even though he sought medical treatment immediately and felt fine he knew he was dead. After much suffering he died the next day There just isn't much treatment for phosgene poisoning.
I needed to hear this. I'm pregnant and my weirdest pregnancy symptom is an INTENSE craving for the scent of things like gasoline, rubber cement, spray paint (which has paint thinner in it), car exhaust, and certain markers. It's so hard not to give in to the craving, but the knowledge of just how dangerous it would be for my baby and me makes it a little easier. I'm going to give birth in 3 weeks and this craving going away is one of the biggest things I'm looking forward to. It went away after my first pregnancy, so I'm guessing it will this time too.
Dude that is so interesting! I wonder what particular nutrient could possibly be related to those chemicals..? Now I'm curious if anyone's studied the roots of pregnancy cravings
@@alexia3552 it's things with benzene, xylene, and/or toluene. It's so bizarre. I've seen other women who are pregnant or have been before talk about the cravings online, but I've never known someone in person who craved it. So weird.
Could you have a vitamin or mineral deficiency? I've heard of pregnant women craving rocks or clay because of mineral deficiencies. Check with your doctor first, but a multivitamin and some OTC iron and zinc supplements probably wouldn't kill you.
@@maddiejoy6619I have always craved those smells. My whole life. It's like pica but smells. I love pumping gas or putting gas in the lawnmower. I love using goof off to remove permanent marker. I love running the car in the garage a few minutes before leaving to get a whiff of the exhaust. I don't know why. Most people can't stand those smells, burn their eyes and throats, not me...for as long as I can remember.
@@diablominero my doctor actually tested me for deficiencies during both my pregnancies and I didn't have a deficiency that showed up either time 🙃. I guess I'm just weird.
When I was in my late teens a friend of mine used to sniff glue regularly. My friends and I would tell him it'd kill him one day, we'd hear about all sorts of stories about glue heads dying on the stuff, but he didn't listen. I suppose he couldn't stop. He was found dead behind a supermarket just off of Peckham High Street, he'd choked on his own vomit. I suppose he'd fallen unconcious, vomited and breathed it in somehow. He was a lovely bloke, but a demon for the glue. A pitifully sad way to die. It absolutely destroyed his mum.
I know so many people who succumbed to paint thinner addiction in the last couple of years. Most of them are good people and I'm afraid I''ll start hearing bad news about them soon
It doesn't surprise me how much damage things like this do to the body, but what is surprising is how much the body can take and still survive. In these videos people do stuff many orders of magnitude worse than what you'd think the lethal amount would be and many of them survive.
I'm surprised they survive as well. There are many people that make it out of something they "shouldn't" but the lack of ability to do what they once could, the various therapies , the cost, ugh. They should not criminalize not being around anymore and just let people go. A life not worth it is just existing, like being a rock and having a stream flow past you.
@@ashley_smith you have to realize those people are money sources for the hospitals, they're a cash crop and only kept alive to make money from you, the government assistance and insurance
As a teenager, some of my friends would buy cans of Scotchgard, the stuff used to waterproof fabric and such. They would put it in a bag and inhale it and just be gone to some other dimension for short periods. Well the natural curiosity and wanting to see what all the Hubbub was about, I tried it a couple times. I found it to be pretty horrific, the buzz wasn't worth the side effects to me. The final straw was watching one friend inhale nothing but these fumes untill he passed out, starting having seizures, put his head through the drywall on the way to the floor. Just as I picked up the phone to call 911, he started to come out of it. I helped him sit up and he couldn't speak English,imagine the worst drunk you've ever talked to eith a massive head injury! Nothing was coherent, one massive vowel movement, almost like he was vomiting his own words. Even in this condition, he was desperately pawing at the bag and trying to get more.i obviously didn't allow it and he was filled with this animalistic rage! I didn't do it ever again. We had another friend who would sit in his shed for hours huffing gasoline. He would be in absolute cartoon land when he came out talking what we could understand about living as a cartoon character. It really really affected him. Not to be, harsh, but he was already a bit slow. This ruined him,he couldn't get past 8th grade, tried 3 times. He became a horrible horrible Alcoholic. While on work release from jail, he gets so drunk while driving back to the jail, he loses control of his car and died. Leaving 3 beautiful little girls without a father, a devasted family, and his daughters mother had never gotten over it almost 20 years later.
This makes me think back to the episode of Rescue 911 where a 15-year old inhaled a whole can of butane. After a car ride with his buddies, he collapsed right in front of them. He was basically given help from the moment he hit the ground, including from an off-duty nurse who happened to be nearby, yet his prognosis was grim. He stopped breathing on his own, and later in the hospital, he was pulled off of life-sustaining efforts after his parents said their final goodbyes. It was a very unusual episode of that particular series, since it didn't have a happy, or even bittersweet ending; the teen just died... and we got to see how it impacted everyone around him. I might be fairly liberal when it comes to drug policies. But really, there are some things you should never put in your body...
The truth is good education, safe places to use, and legalization prevent this. People don't use Paint thinner and Butane if you can get weed and shrooms. Those won't kill you like this. Maybe once in a while, but criminalization killed that teen as much as Butane did.
@@RobinTheBot All of that is true... Still, I think we should avoid giving drug access to people who're still developing. Being 18 before you can legally purchase dangerous stuff just seems like the bare minimum to me. And yes I know, some people mature quicker, or slower, than others, but it's about setting a standard. That way we don't end up in a world where nicotine addiction before puberty is normalized.
I remember that episode. I was around 7 at the time and the ending just... shocked me. Stupid 7 year old me thought every time you called 911 you will live because all the other episodes had happy endings.
@@RobinTheBot pretty much this. legalize safe recreational drugs. criminalizing it won't stop people from doing it, they'll just do it secretly using unsafe alternatives.
@@JeveGreen emotional maturity and intelligence just dont have anything to do with it. your brain isnt done developing until 25, especially the prefrontal cortex which is in charge of fun stuff like impulse control...
I'm a tire tech at an auto shop. We use a lot of real nasty chemicals to breathe (carb cleaner, brake cleaner, acetone, etc). I heard a story of a worker at another location of ours who didnt come back from his lunch break. Over an hour had passed by the time someone walked by a car in the lot and found him unconscious. He had open bottles of brake cleaner in his car. I guess they called 911, and nobody i know seems to know what happened to the guy. Yet people still make fun of me when someone uses a lot of cleaner when all the doors are closed and i wait outside until it clears.
We had a guy at a lab I worked at steal a nitrous oxide cylinder then suffocated while huffing it with a bag over his head to trap the gas. He forgot you need to mix it with oxygen.
I used to abuse inhalants in my youth. The low pitched slow motion laughter brought chills down my spine, it’s literally what it feels like when butane starts kicking in.
A recovering solvent abuser here. Its hard to believe that just 6 months ago I was doing the very same thing. I was regularly inhaling thinner 5-10 times a day. I was left with visual problems in both my eyes. I just want everyone to know that this isn't jut some teen fad but is a serious addiction just like all other addictions. For whoever is struggling with addiction please know that you can get through this just like so many of us did. Stay clean guys❤
I’m a new parent, so I’m obligated to ask: Where were your parents, and how do I make sure my new son doesn’t engage with this? You really have no idea what this does to good parents, I was horrified watching this entire video
Anecdotal, but I'll never forget this young guy from my home town, when we were about 14-15 he had gotten into inhaling gasoline to get high. One weekend his parents went out of town, and from his account he did nothing but huff gas for about 48-72 hours with only sleep in between. Even since then he was.. Different, like clearly something happened to his brain. He started having almost schizophrenic tendencies and semi-violent outbursts, and it only got worse. The worst part is it took years for the parents to find out he was huffing gas, and wasn't just mental health issues like they were lead to believe.
I heard a similar story like this from Reddit except it was a week instead of a weekend. This teen and his friend were home alone for the week and all they did was sit over a gas tank and huff. The guy was really messed up after, for like a month and suffered permanent damage. His friend continued and ended up as a vegetable.
I love the chemistry lessons you do with these. They make the chemical reaction process make so much more sense when there is a tangible, relatable issue to tether the theoretical math to.
I knew this guy who worked in an industrial paint factory for 10 years. He never wore any kind of protection to stop the fumes from getting in and the damage was clear. He often spoke incoherently and stumbled around because his muscles were weak. Don't put anything in your lungs that shouldn't be there.
When I was a teenager, a boy in my year died from inhaling lighter fluid. I never really knew him, only by name and face, as we were in different formrooms and classes and had different friend groups. Instead of educating us about the dangers of misusing dangerous chemicals, the school kept quiet about how he actually died and instead just built a memorial bench on school grounds.
Well it is not the school's job to educate you about that. The should, but it's not their job. Also, if they want the teachers to do anything extra, they should pay them extra. They should be better payed anyway.
@@BbgGYATT69420 Oh yes, I totally agree some of the drug stuff is part of chemistry, and science. However, the social and mental stuff that comes with it, isn't. (How to act about peer pressure & bullying, for example.) In Ireland, they have "CSPE", which is "Civiics and Social Political Education" and "SPHE", which is "Social Personal Health Education", where you learn exactly that kind of stuff. However, in a lot of countries unfortunately they do not offer that vital, maybe life saving subject. So I'm sorry my first comment was innacurate. I should have typed "in a lot of schools they're not required to teach", not "It is not the school's job...".
Dude, nothing gets the taste of suspicious gas station sushi out of my mouth quite like huffing paint thinner. It burns my taste buds away like nobody's business.
In the early 80s as a journalist on a daily newspaper I had to cover the death of a young man who die from intentionally breathing paint thinner (with toluene.) When I contacted his sister, during the conversation I said usually such deaths (in that day and age) was from heroine. Her first comment was "oh yeah, that's the good stuff."
That kind of response is nuts! I've heard that era was all about crazy parties and clubbing. She might have befriended those kinds of people and been exposed to it. No sane person would compliment drugs. I can see why it left such a strong impression on you.
I’m gonna be honest. I used to huff compressed air, those duster cans. And it never got so bad I got hospitalized, but I started reading the effects, and after getting help from my family, I worked through it. I’m lucky I had people in my life to help through a serious problem. Hope CJ gets better, and finds help.
For those wondering: @ 0:26 the flashing is a screen cap of GTA: San Andreas with Carl from the beginning of the game with the words _“Ah s*** here we go again.”_
My father was an artist working with oil paints and thus lots of solvents. I remember as a child going into his studio and nearly becoming overcome by the fumes on more than one occasion. He died of cancer, the only one in our family known to have done so, and I wonder if the decades of working in a poorly vented studio are at least partially to blame. In any case, I minimize my hydrocarbon solvent use in my electronics work and do so outside whenever possible when the need for a solvent other than water or IPA becomes necessary.
My grandfather was a house painter by trade and also painted ships. He suffered mental decline and died from what was identified as Alzheimer's, but it happened in a span of 2 years. Many of us in the family aren't sure it was Alzheimer's, and it was probably something else caused by years of paint chemical exposure. I never work with cleaners, paint, or electronic solder without active ventilation.
@@sirgregsalot It's not online but if you search my last name, you might find a gallery or two that has a painting. The Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, TX has one of his pieces. Most are in private hands however.
Used to live in a small town with a huffer. Kid came from a good family. Kind of town where everyone knew everyone. You'd see him walking with a gas can when he had to go buy a new gallon of gas. Always looking sheepish and walking fast trying to get back home. Cops knew him and couldn't do anything because there's no law against buying gasoline. His folks knew and would send him off to rehab from time to time. He'd just get out and start up again. I went off to college and my folks moved out of that town to a different city. I've always wondered what happened to him. I remember this going on for years. I know it didn't end well.
i knew a kid who did inhalants. from everyone i talked to, before he ever did them, he was a genius. He couldnt see out of his left eye, stuttered constantly, needed help with certain words, and was incredibly emotionally stunted. it horrifies me. every single time i remember him, i thank god that i never did anything worse than xanax.
Ooph... that hit me in the gut. What despair is in the mind to think that huffing for a short high is a solution to overwhelmiing circumstances. It's a death sentence.
@@cursedgamer2778 You might be right from an outside perspective, but the simple fact of the matter is that addiction doesn't usually happen if a user doesn't feel like their substance of choice helps them cope with something they otherwise couldn't. This may be due to outside influence (which some people can be *very* good at hiding) or some form of mental illness, the result is the same and unless you know the person extremely well you may never know for sure. The strange thing is that with some combinations of drugs and users, the drug actually does help - the trick is to figure out which works well enough with minimal side effects. Unfortunately, getting through that process isn't easy and getting help near impossible in a lot of places.
I am a registered nurse, and I have these old medical textbooks and home health (for the lay person) manuals from the 1930s back to 1844. They recommended using turpentine for almost everything. Breathing in the fumes, placing it on your skin as a poultice. Mercury was used in wound care until the 1930s. The directions of care of common diseases horrifies me but fascinates me as well. I will read those books and start talking to whoever is nearby in the house. "Do you know what they did for x? Slathered on some mercury! Ugh! Now look! This is awful! How did anyone live?!"
there was a lot of stuff that made some sense and served a medicinal purpose but was misused or there turned out to be better alternatives (like cocaine was used as an anesthetic and is still sometimes used as a topical anesthetic) but yeah idk where the idea of using mercury came from, theres no positive effect it can have on you i have to imagine this was just some alchemy belief lol
@@BlisaBLisa mercury did seem to have a slight antibacterial affect, but the cost sure wasn't worth it. Or, maybe it was back then. A little madness over death might be preferable. 🤷♀️🤷♀️ I know it was widely used as an STD "cure". There were specially made chocolates so that the infected could more easily take his (or her) treatment without others knowing. But yes, there are medications and therapies in these old books that are still used today. Aspirin, of course, being another; digitalis, not so commonly used now, also showed up. I sometimes would remember another medication with its botanical history as I flipped through the books and saw the more raw form being used.
My sister was in a car accident at 18, and had pretty severe brain damage. She had to go through years of therapy, re-learning how to do basically everything. Today, you could never tell. The brain's plasticity is astonishing. It gives me hope for the individual described in this case, as young as he is.
Definitely. I'm an artist and back in my college days I exclusively painted in oils while using paint thinner/turpentine to clear away the paint from my brushes every so often. I was in my room with no windows open or anything. Eventually I started feeling sick and my eyes would burn too. It took me longer than it should have for me to start painting in more well ventilated areas and thankfully I didn't do any permanent damage that I know of.
@@ConsciousCloud Glad you use good ventilation now. I recently learned that Bob Ross died of cancer that was most likely caused by long-term regular exposure to the turpentine paint thinner he used. He painted in a windowless room and usually had an open can of turpentine in front of him as he painted for hours with no ventilation.
Yup, I'm an art student currently and this type of stuff scares me. Whenever I spray anything (whether for charcoal, painting, etc), I always do it outside
@@thenonsequitur Oh wow I actually had no idea his cancer was related to that.. You would think the studio and film crew would have made more ventilation in that room for him but maybe back then people weren't as aware of the dangers of paint and turpentine fumes. Really sad.
I know it’s not your usual style, but I’d watch a series that talks about how different recreational drugs work. You’re good at explaining pharmacology.
Growing up I have watched a lot of my friends and family destroy their lives with various drugs and alcohol. It would help make things make sense. Bring some sort of closure in a way I guess
There really needs to be more education and exposure of common drugs. Not only to help educate recreational users, but also so loved ones can see what to look for if it becomes a problem. Just know what opioid overdose looks like, and how narcan can be used for that will save a ton of lives.
I'm a painter, and my wife used to always ask me why I paint with all the windows open even in the smack dab middle of winter. She no longer questions because she understands the possible harms that come from prolonged exposure. I guess I'll forward this to her to justify the heating bill lol
Perhaps an industrial grade ventilation unit would be a good idea for your studio? Should pay for itself in only a couple years, considering your heating bill.
I worked at a large commercial aviation repair station in the 1990’s (Tramco/BF Goodrich Aerospace) and witnessed several occasions in which my fellow mechanics “huffed” at work. One individual would take small pieces of the shop rags, soak them in MEK, insert them into his respirator, and then fit it onto his face. Needless to say when he was caught doing this on several occasions he was fired. Drug and alcohol testing was conducted regularly at this facility due to it being subject to FAA regulations. People found creative ways to get high at work.
oh hey dr. bernard! thanks for posting this! i'm actually 1 year clean of huffing as of today, this was grim but reassuring of my decision! EDIT: everyone replying has been so kind. thank you all for reaffirming my decision for a better life. :)
@@lerigolo1661 it really is. i'm glad i managed to stop, i didn't have much damage but i know it could have gotten way worse if i kept going-- i'm lucky to have people around me who called me on my shit so i could recognize how bad it really was and could've been. support matters most, glad to have yours 💕
The human body is simply fascinating to me. I don’t personally have any experience with inhalants, but this did remind me of a chemical we used in the aviation/aerospace industry to clean all exposed surfaces upon final inspection. We called it “trich” (pronounced ‘trike’) and it’s fumes were so powerful, it could cause you to pass out. Worse than that, however, was the fact that if you were caught using it without wearing gloves, you’d be fired on the spot. The reason being that so many workers had been hospitalized with permanent damage to their liver and kidneys as a result of the chemical being absorbed through the skin on their hands.
Oh I had a moment of panic recently, after accidentally spilling some liquid cement (used in model making) on a small area of only one hand. I immediately thought of the Chubby Emu video where a chemist spilled some mercury I think, on her hand, and the brief period of contact was all it took to be absorbed into her body and cause her later death. Anyway, I wiped it off, but it took a few more minutes before I could get back indoors (I was outdoors, so that the vapors could dissipate out in the open air - label warned you to not use in an enclosed space) and wash my hand. Anyway, I was fine, and although I worried for a while about the longterm effects of the exposure, I rationalized that it wasn't liquid mercury, and the exposure area and exposure time was quite small, and that it would be okay. I believe the chemicals might be teratogenic, but I'm past the age of having children so that's not a concern. I really should've been more sensible and worn gloves, but I'm not usually clumsy like that, and I figured I could get it done quickly without incident. I remember as a child, how I'd always try to hold my breath whenever my father pulled into a gas station and filled up the car tank. The smell was so awful, even inside the car (some of the smell would float in when my father opened the car door). I can't imagine having to work at them. BTW what is trich short for? I'm guessing it must be tri-chloro -something. I did organic chemistry in high school a long time ago, and I can still remember a bit of it.
@@soyburglar77 It could also be 1,1,1-trichloroethane. Both compounds were used industrially as solvents, and both are colorless and sweet-smelling (1,1,1-trich is also known as methyl chloroform, so you can see where the sweet smell comes from). And both can cause people who are exposed to them, to become dizzy and unconscious. 1,1,1-trich is possibly more likely to be the one, as it is regulated by the Montreal Protocol and its use is being rapidly phased out, and its use in correction fluid/whiteout was discontinued due to being declared hazardous and toxic.
My father’s metal plating shop used trichloroethylene as a degreaser and it was NASTY stuff. He eventually moved away from it to something less toxic and safer to use.
For anyone who works with paint thinner and similar chemicals, make sure you wear proper PPE, even if it's just a 3M 6000 series elastomeric mask with A1P2 (active carbon, with particulate filter) filters. These are relatively cheap and keep you from having to breathe in things that absolutely will harm your body and life in the long run. Remember: you can only get that bad news from the doctor once, but prevention is a continuous thing.
Even just sweeping in the warehouse where I work I'm making a habit of wearing at least a dust mask, don't need to find out what any of those types of dust can do firsthand
@@UNSCPILOT Indeed, never know when you're breathing in random asbestos fibers or bacteria that will fascinate scientists after your inevitable autopsy :)
Too bad most of those masks actually make it terribly hard to breathe and cause overheating. I lost 30% of my lungs due to chronic bronchitis that went undiagnosed for four or five years, and I get lightheaded to the point of seeing static when I wear them. It took several meetings to get my employer to buy me a respirator mask.
Bernard, very informative website. I met you at Loren and Sarah's house. i will be going through your videos. Fyi, i have been painting with oil based and lacquers for years. i used to not worry about masks but now i always have a organic vapor respirator. i cant believe how many times i sprayed either oil based or lacquer based without any protection. i got sick one time after spraying a complete kitchen and from that day on. i have used masks. nice meeting you and i hope you all enjoyed your concert. thanks Bobby
I Use to work for PPG PAINTS. And let me just say, some of those smelling senses were addicting. BUT I KNEW BETTER 😂 Some of their products were really strong. Plz read the labels and know what you're doing when handling toxic products. Love the breakdown btw !
I go into autobody shops all day long. Big change these days. Most booths in larger shops are marked with isocyanate warnings. I know what you mean about the smells though. I'm pretty sure it's the clear coat that has that sweet, candy smell, but most of the paints these days are all waterborne to minimize the use of solvent carriers, as you would probably well know.
Kem Bond from sherwin smells insanely good which is honestly scary. It contains a shit ton of amyl acetate derivatives which ALL smell like banana flavoring but is a super-strong solvent-based primer.
I used to work at a paint shop and we had one guy who worked there for decades and never wore a mask. The smell of paint thinner in that place was crazy and this guy was going about his 12 hour shift with no mask. I'm honestly surprised he never ended up in the hospital. He'll probably die too soon from his lack of care
If you go by the typical nail salon at a mall, the smell of solvent is overpowering. And the workers have on useless paper masks. I worry about their health too.
He probably had good genetics in the liver and lung department. Genetics loads the gun but lifestyle pulls the trigger. His gun probably wasnt loaded lol
My first reaction when I saw the title was to think that the patient was a factory worker or a painter who had no kind of PPE. To think that CJ huffed for 7 hours straight is mind bogglingly insane.
Anyone notice how dr Bernard spent the first part of the video saying how terribly dangerous any inhalant is? If that’s true we should lock up dentists that give it to little kids in huge quantities, not just a balloon full. It’s almost like it’s actually safe or something despite what he said at the beginning.
To note is that high enough concentrations can do damage much faster. A college of mine won a trip to the ICU for a few days because he went digging through the paint disposal container, which is normally locked and has a gasket to stop vapors from escaping. That way he got a load of highly contaminated air and was out in a few seconds flat.
Many years ago, while working for a small print shop, the print operator and I witnessed a client come out into the production area, ask where the paint thinner was, then proceed to put it to his nose and inhale. The operator and I looked at each other in shock! I wonder if he’s still alive.
you ever wondered what would happen if you huffed paint thinner for 7 hours well this video shows you what would happen cause someone has already tried it so you don't have to
We use thinner to clean spray glue off of cabinet surfaces, always in areas with plenty of air movement. About 7 years ago we had a guy working with us who had a bit of a drug problem. ( we didn't know ) I had set him to cleaning a kitchen area and left to install more cabinets. I came back about 40 minutes later, I could smell the thinner all the way down the hallway and just assumed he had knocked over the bottle of thinner. I got to the kitchen and the fumes were burning my eyes, but he was no where around. Just as i was turning to leave and get a fan I heard a noise from one of the larger base cabinets. I opened the door on it to find him leaning against the wall of the cabinet wiping the saturated rag on the wall so that it evaporate quickly and just breathing it in. He didn't even notice that I was there until I started dragging him out of the room. He didn't work for us much longer after that.
As an apprentice cabinetmaker yeah. Thinners to clean the extra glue off the edge tape. I always wear a simple mask for that, cleaning all panels, doors, draws & carcasses, drilling & cutting as well for as I found out I'm allergic to something in MDF boards. I ain't taking my chances despite even my boss had objections for me wearing mine.
@@tristanbackup2536 Something to keep in mind with that mask, a lot of the fumes from thinner and other solvents have a tendency to linger in the air, your mask may give them something to absorb into. A fan is the best thing to have when dealing with fumes, even if on a very slow setting it will keep a stream moving and clear the air. If your allergy is a skin allergy, constant exposure can make it worse, a lot of the old timers wore long sleeve shirts all year just to keep the dust off their skin.
I've seen this twice. Once with a young man that went to school with my little brother. The other was a homeless young man in Mexico. The cognitive damage to both was the saddest thing, yet they kept with their habit. A true tragedy.
As someone who's recovered from addiction, I'm infinitely grateful to have never reached this point. I hope CJ was able to make - if not a full recovery - at least a substantial one. Both from his addiction and from the physical effects of it.
Most recreational drugs won't do this too the body, more so they change the brain, but not in ways that will normally kill (unless you cold-turkey from gabanerics). Inhalants, however, are extremely detrimental to the brain and body, and can cause irreversible damage.
It is time to face reality. It's people thinking they are invincible that leads to these things happening. The truth is that CJ did make A recovery. He will not age gracefully unfortunately and he probably lost a few decades of life due to the organ damage. The liver is the only organ that can somewhat fix itself, organ damage is permanent. Be careful young people out there.
In Jr. High, they actually sent in a cop to our class to tell us about how his son had died of cardiac arrest while breathing air duster, so I managed to avoid that entirely. Still feel a bit on edge whenever I use it.
I have ADHD and so I chew/fidget on a lot of things. Once I put an air duster nossle in my mouth (I can't remember why) and accidently sprayed a tiny amount, I instantly spat it out knowing nothing good was going to be in the can. The brain effects didn't take long , noticable headache, slight cognitive issues. I felt weird body wise. This video by chubbyemu explains alot, but I did my research at the time and honestly it was incredibly hard to find good information about the effects of air duster. - They say solvent misuse can kill, but they don't say why. There needs to be health and safety classes in schools, that effectively explain WHY solvents are dangerous. There are many people who do dangerous things, nothing happens to them, so they do it again and again believing they are different and/or the warning isn't as bad as they make it out to be. For example someone who knows how and why speeding is dangerous is much less likely to speed than someone who has just been told speeding is dangerous.
Ive been spraying and using paint thinner for 25 years . Ive stopped now for about 2 months . My whole body still feels like crap. I dont know how im still alive
Toxicomania is an extreme threat in Eastern Europe and post soviet space in general, I have seen children as young as 5 inhaling glue and gasoline fumes, also this was the first thing that I learned from my cousin. The average life expectancy of someone who does that from the moment they start is 2 years, but for a miracle my cousin managed to stop with his addiction, escape mobilisation and now lives in a different city on the other side of russia. But most aren't that lucky.
I drank paint thinner when I was four and the first hospital I got taken to said that “I’d pass it” and be fine. A handful of hours later my bloated fumey self was taken to another hospital where they were amazed I was alive. 25 years later and I’m still waiting for that to come back and bite me
drinking is different than breathing it. When you breath it, the gasses quickly get into the blood stream and are technically inside your body. When you digest something, that is technically not inside your body. It will have to pass through the intestinal lining into blood vessels first. Since your digestive tract consist of differing chemical environments and has other digesting contents in it, chances are that not that not much will get into your blood stream. These paint thinners are all lipophilic and there will be fats in your digestive tract. It probably rather wants to stay there than get into less fatty blood. Dont think that after 25 years you still have anything to worry about wrt that. ofc at that moment there was risk, depending on how much you drank and so. But thats long gone.
I love this channel so much. Between the way he breaks down medical terms very easily to the way he describes patients recoveries gives the impression he really cares about his work. And I really appreciate that.
I made the mistake once of spraying a chemical called " break free" on some siezed/rusted bolts on the exhaust components of a hot recently driven car I was working on. The terrible smelling fumes quickly overtook me in such a way that I could barely speak and became so weak that I couldn't even hold my head up. All I could do was lay there and call out to a nearby friend standing just feet away. He had to drag me out to fresh air and thought I was joking. Upon reading the label afterward it specifically warned not to use it on hot surfaces. I thought it was just another off brand form of WD-40. I read labels now.
This stuff is notorious among amateur chemists for containing Hydrofluoric Acid, which is like Hydrochloric Acids evil brother. Incidental contact can cause death bc it basically steals the calcium out of your nerves. Super scary stuff
@@Auntee-Sara This is why darwin awards exist, but i do agree with you on the fact that the way they phrased it could encourage others to “attempt to beat the record”.
Can you imagine that? The official Guinness timekeepers sitting nearby by with their stopwatches and all of a sudden you hear "7 hours, 1 minute, and 12 seconds! Let's goooo!"
@@Auntee-Sarabro chill out, if someone actually took what Op said as a challenge in a youtube comment section then the parents failed on they're part and Nautral selection will do its thing. Besides this thing called Tik Tok been doing the very thing your complaining about for awhile
I used to work at a prison. This didn't happen while I was there but another officer told me that a while before I started somebody sprayed a piece of paper with wasp killer spray and then mailed the piece of paper to and inmate. That inmate rolled that piece of paper up and smoked it like a joint. He thought he was going to get super high off of it but ended up destroying his esophagus and lung tissue. Just know that there is always somebody out there who is stupid enough to try anything just to get high or trip
@@pushytubyou would be surprised how many people actually smoked formaldehyde because they thought thats what people meant with embalming fluid/formaldehyde
The formaldehyde slang confusion has led to a few people getting deathly ill or losing their lives. Folks have burglarized funeral homes for it only to learn the hard way it was the wrong chem.
I sniffed rubber cement about 5 times when I was a kid. Each trip was worse than the last. I would hear echoing words and a trippy music. It sounded like high and low pitched bass and tones similar to when you get a hearing test as a kid. But the music was the same each time. Also, I would have uncontrollable body movements that weren't my own. It scared the shit out of me. To this day, I can't even smell glue or I feel like I'm gonna have a flash back.
Worked in a factory years ago in the circuit board area. They decided to paint the work room floor with "special" paint that would keep us grounded so static electricity wouldn't blow the boards. Instead of shutting down the room to paint, the idiots painted with us in it. The maintenance man would bring the drum of paint in, poor into a plain bucket and run out with the actual paint bucket with the name on it so we wouldn't see what it said. We all became very sick. Heart palpitations, turning bright red, I threw up. To this day I have no clue what was used on that floor. Worst environment I've ever had to work in.
There are many types of paints with fumes that can make you sick, like polyurethane paints, it is hard to narrow it down unless someone caught a glimpse of the actual paint bucket, and that is the scary part.
When I was much younger, I lived with a roommate who had 3 children. Her daughter's friend bought a bottle of whiteout from the office supply store and emptied it into a paper bag. He rode around with a couple of buddies, huffing on the bag repeatedly. After an hour or so, the other boys noticed that he stopped moving and didn't respond to them calling out to him or shaking him. They drove to the emergency room, but it was too late. He died not long after they reached the hospital. Don't inhale anything that isn't air, kids.
Oh I remember some kids would briefly sniff their liquid paper (that was the brand name, the one that first came out as far as I can remember, so everyone called it that) whenever they got a new bottle. Also, some kids sniffed their magic markers etc., but you know, for a second or two when they opened it. I never did it - couldn't understand why as the smell was not pleasant in my opinion, and I would probably have, even when I was 10 or so, realized it was dangerous (I'm sure there were warnings on labels). But I never knew of anyone who regularly sniffed in order to get some kind of high from it. What I do remember though, is hearing news stories of Aboriginal youths (the native people of Australia) in the more remote parts of Australia, sniffing petrol (gasoline) and how it was a serious problem, and caused brain damage. It was, I think, the mid-80s when I heard about it. I was in my early teens then, and I couldn't understand why they'd do such an obviously damaging thing.
Don't inhale anything that isn't air, or isn't medically ment to go that way in responsible doses, stuff like asthma inhalers are good when used correctly
Chubbyemu's videos are more informative and interesting than the don't do (fill in the blank) videos we watched as teens. While I wasn't tempted to ever inhale such things, I think that more kids would've at least watched the videos if they had been made like these - easy to understand but not dumbed down or preachy.
such a difference in how we were taught about illegal drugs vs how we were taught about legal ones like tobacco and alcohol... they knew we were all familiar w tobacco and alcohol and its just a normal thing in our society so they didnt try to use scare tactics they just explained the physical/medical effects of it. the way they taught abt illegal drugs was way more emotion-driven and used scare tactics. its so dumb.
Toxicology is good to know. I just looked over at my pantry closet and saw a bag full of poison- dried kidney beans. Raw or undercooked, they are toxic with letting. Properly prepared, tasty. Wild cassava is toxic as well. A popular famine food, common, lousy with cyanide compounds if not properly prepared. Peanuts, soybeans and even potatoes carry toxins that can kill.
I met a guy in rehab for huffing keyboard duster. He had a masters degree in electrical engineering, so must have been a smart guy at one time. But he lost so much brain matter from chronic abuse of air duster that he was severely mentally impaired. He was very child-like and needed help with many things. It was pretty tragic.
What scares me most about inhalant abuse is how users describe the neural damage like a good thing. They say at first it was just peripheral effects like auditory warping and lightheadedness, it then progresses to visual hallucinations and delusions/blackouts depending on the inhalant. It's so sad once you know what's going on.
I went to school with some guys who would inhale those compressed air cans intentionally during class (vo-tech). This explains a lot about those people then and now.
Dang I saw the title and assumed somebody fell asleep in a room with some evaporating paint thinner. It makes me sick thinking about times I've accidentally gotten a strong whiff of the stuff, I can't imagine intentionally inhaling it, let alone doing so for hours on end.
We call that the Hank Hill Maneuver. Joking aside, I agree, the idea of it sounds disgusting. But people will do desperate things when they are that sad and depressed.
I work at a container chassi refurb shop . My heart goes out to to the painters that work here… they are literally constantly breathing in industrial Chinese LEAD BASED paint and primer. Don’t even get me started on the thinner… sometimes at the end of the day they’re in the break room smiling looking geeked out of their mind :( They say that when they take a week vacation they can feel their sanity coming back
Once upon a time I used to work in insurance claims. A particular case I remember well. The patient (homeless late teen male) was abusing VOC's under a bridge next to a burn barrel. The vapours caught alight and burned his lungs and airway. With medical care he survived his injuries but post-op notes contra-indicated opioid pain relief given his addiction potential under lifestyle circumstances. Life must have really sucked thereafter... Don't do it kids!
Very good presentation, Doctor! I'm a retired chemist, who had routinely used every solvent you mentioned; as they are heavily used in the plastics industry. Of course I worked inside a fume hood,or wore an appropriate respirator for the types I was using..., mostly acetone, methyl-ethyl ketone(MEK) toluene, and xylenes. When I was employed, it seemed most people wore protection very infrequently, with other chemists being the worst offenders! (saying,"My professor in college never wore a respirator/used a fume hood",etc) I wonder how they are doing in old age after all the years of heavy solvent exposure...,
I was a 16 year old toluene addict and spent years in youth rehab. I'm 43 now. Luckily, the damage wasn't so permanent in my case. I would use daily for many months.
@@greg77389 people's tolerance are highly different because of genetic makeup. You got people who's been exposed to all kind of toxic chemicals and radiation who goes on to live a long life. Then you have people obessing with health, living optimally who out of nowhere get's hit with cancer and checks out. Your genes decides what your body can handle.
Awesome video as always. It unlocked an old memory for me. I used to live with someone who suffered from hypokalemic periodic paralysis. If she didn't get enough potassium she would be unable to move her limbs and would become temporarily paralyzed.
The one time I thought I could go without a respirator around something like this, I got a nasty headache lasting through the next day. In retrospect, I appreciate the lesson that taught me.
Can we appreciate how amazing the human body is? The body work so hard to save us or delay consequence from our own bad decisions sometimes. We definitely shouldn't take advantage of that, but when you break it all down, it's just amazing what the body does to work and correct when things are wrong. This is super sad what happened with this man, but his body worked hard to try and save him til he could get to the hospital, and worked to try and protect him from prior misuse
Thats what 4 billion years of evolution does to a body; you’d think after being poisoned probably trillions of times in total, the systems of a body would have quite a few systems in place to prevent death
Whoa. I’m a nursing student and I believed it was bc it starved the brain of oxygen. This was extremely informative. Also much more terrifying. I remember working with toluene in orgo and biochem labs. Glad there was never a spill or anything.
@@drbobsnightmare2521 Yeah for real. And you pay for the privilege. I'm not paying to be some class flunking nurse's guineapig while she figures it out.
@@drbobsnightmare2521 There is a reason why she's a nursing student. She won't be in the hospital making diagnosis's and making the top decisions in regards to treatment plans. She'll mostly be doing what the doctor tells her, except for split second decisions which they are trained for.
Anyone notice how dr Bernard spent the first part of the video saying how terribly dangerous any inhalant is? If that’s true we should lock up dentists that give it to little kids in huge quantities, not just a balloon full. It’s almost like it’s actually safe or something despite what he said at the beginning.
This was the most clearly explained video you've done. I knew the moment you talked about poor muscle tone that it was rhabdomyolysis and had something to do with potassium and muscles being torn up, simply because of how many of these I've watched. But now I understand how it works better. Thanks so much, from a non-medic who dropped school science at age 16.
I was confused when the store cashier questioned if I was going to abuse canned air for cleaning dust off of computer components. It took me awhile to learn people abuse those like paint thinners.
Multiple failures in one go? I'm going to try this and see if my doctors can figure it out! No, I'm not. On a more serious note, I remember 'painters disease' suddenly being a thing, about 30 years back. Painters, having been exposed to paint thinner over a number of years (such as toluene) began to get ill with a wide variety of symptoms. Chronic Toxic Encephalopathy. The rage today is inhaling laughing gas, N2O. It can cause B12 deficiency which leads to neurological damage.
At 26 seconds, I managed to capture that millisecond clip you included as you were speaking about his erratic heart rhythm. It looks like a clip from grand theft auto. Nicely done sir 😏 your sense of humor is always a nice touch to these informative videos.
Growing up in the 1960s, I was a typical boy who loved building model cars. Bending over a table in my house working on small parts one day, I didn't notice the glue was oozing out of the tube. I suddenly woke up in the yard with the worst headache I'd ever had.. I'd been overcome by the fumes, and my oldest brother found me passed out face down in the glue. To this day I cannot comprehend why anyone would intentionally sniff inhalants.
Knew a guy who claimed to have huffed 500 can's of ether starting fluid, his fall back when he couldn't get anything else. Did a bit myself back in the early 80's, most fascinating drug trips ever but also got a bit of tinnitis, quite then and never touch it.
I work in a composites machine shop and we take safety very seriously. Most older machinists and technicians all have work-related health problems due to safety regulations not being as heavily enforced several decades ago. Today, all areas exposed to composite dust (some of which contains metals like boron), acetone, IPA, etc. all have dust collectors, fume hoods, and PPE free of charge. The company also provides a monetary incentive for people who get an annual physical. None of the younger employees have work-related health issues.
Oh god… there’s nothing scarier than huffing in my opinion & I was a heroin / fentanyl addict (in recovery). The feeling is awful… I remember trying it first at like 14 years old with a whipped cream can while at home & I literally thought I’d die so I went into the living room & laid down so I’d be found & saved hopefully if I started dying. I was okay. I had a friend who was addicted to huffing & she was seriously anorexic & she was having seizures constantly. It was terrifying. I loved her so much & im so sad that drugs ruined our friendship…
The last time I saw someone doing that, they suffered hematomas, edema and an abrupt increase in intracranial pressure. In other words, they blew their freakin'' brains out.
Technically not all inhalants are toxic. Nitrous oxide is not toxic at all assuming you get enough oxygen. Amyl nitrite and related chemicals are not problematic usually from what I’ve observed. However industrial solvents and such are pure poison.
I can remember back in the day cleaning old fashioned IBM 3420 tape drives with a solvent containing dichlorodiflouroethane. It took approximately 30 minutes to clean them all and they had to be cleaned at the beginning and end of each 12-hour shift. One's hands would turn white after cleaning because we never used gloves nor any respirator protections. Nobody ever voiced a concern. I wonder what harm was done from that stuff. Which reminds me of the time when we used to clean those old-fashioned IBM 3420 ....
Def gonna wear my well fitting respirator with appropriate catriges when working with these types of chemicals. Id love to see you analyze common working hazards like excessive sawdust, small metal particles, and common fumes from various metals.
take care of yourself and be well! 🙏
Oki :D
Just be sure you don't fall asleep in a factory
Thank you so much
Yes
Thanks, you too! ✋️
Liver: I filter waste for you!
Heart: I pump blood for you!
Lungs: I breathe air for you!
Brain: Let's huff paint thinner
Brain: I KILL YOU, PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY
Lol
😂🤣😅🥶😭 - fact.
also your brain: nah lets not
Brain: I like that, gimme more.
A friend of mine tried to get me to huff paint. I kind of distanced myself from him. A few months later I found he was living in a state hospital with no hope of recovery. He was 14 years old.
Did he die? Permanent brain damage?
That is really saddening.
@@perf7This happened in the 1980s. I'm almost 60 now and desite encouraging him not to do it, I still feel guilty. So, I pass on his story. Who know who may read it.
Shame to hear about that. One of my childhood friends became a drug addict, and I just pray every day that he moves on from it...
@@Legogazer In the 80s at 14? gtfo.
I used to be a painter. I actually had to argue with other coworkers why I needed safety gear while working with certain types of paint. People can be quite ignorant when it comes to safety
Lots of people assume themselves to be basically invincible to anything short of a gun, right up until they're half awake and in pain while the ambulance team loads them up to rush for the hospital.
Any safety rule you have ever seen or will ever see is written in the blood of those too foolish to respect the risk, don't join them as a statistic if you can avoid it, and if your boss asks you to do something obviously stupid and dangerous you have the right to refuse, and report them, especially if you are inexperienced at the task at hand
this is why masks to filter the air you breath are important to your health safety when your exposed to paint thinner's in your work place as long term exposure build's up over time to have this kind of effect on people he should have read the msds on that paint thinner
Sometimes, I'm not even sure that it's ignorance so much as some kind of paranoid distrust. When I worked in research, one of our studies required us to wear a full face respirator and vacuum suit anytime we entered the room. As I exited this room one day, with danger and inhalant and potential for chemical burn signs plastered all over it, a couple of my own coworkers stopped to harass me for "being paranoid" and "believing that gear will do anything to help." Like, yes guys, we are actively the ones who do that testing. I do believe in the science we're performing (most of us, maybe not that particular team).
@@5h4d0w5l1f3 well if they do not want to wear the protection they can be the gynae pigs aka test subject to see what happens without the protections lol
@Quiet Wanderer Indeed. It is true that all rules are created in blood, whether literally or metaphorically. In the case of literal, death, or serious injury are reasons why we make new rules. Metaphorically, things like the banking crisis, the crypto crisis, white collar crime laws, and the like, our reasons why we make rules for those.
I've smelled paint thinner.
it's insane to think someone didn't hate the smell enough to not use it a drug.
Benzene was once used in the late 1800s- early 1900s as aftershave, due to its "pleasant" odor
@@naphthaflame Considering how much they SMOKED, amazing they didn't burn up.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823oh they did
Tbh when I use permanent markers, the smell has almost something aluring to it, its interesting.
Ive never actually huffed anything or abused drugs though, thankfully I had the right environment to keep me from going there.
My ex used to love the smell of turpentine when I was painting
I worked in a military industrial paint shop briefly. The head painter had been there for almost 40yrs. He could hardly breathe, barely made sense when he spoke, had no teeth, and had the mentality of a child. He also never wore PPE when spraying or handling chemicals. He was my motivation for finishing school and getting a better job away from chemicals.
I feel both sorry for him and frustrated. So many workers laugh at OSHA regs and brag about flaunting their rules. It's still sad, but not auprising when they get hurt.
@@WarPigstheHun I felt bad for him also, as well as for his family. He did live to see retirement, but I haven’t kept up with him much since I quit.
@Backwater Native I do too, but I'm more frustrated then anything because I'm sure that at least 20 years ago he would have had access to the knowledge that he should have been wearing. Worth noting that there are plenty of options for PPE to protect you while painting. It's not a case of aborting a job because of the dangers, but a case of not being properly prepared for said job.
It's often the same with the guys who do the bottom painting on vessels in shipyards. That stuff is so toxic, they just seem not entirely there
An air respirator with activated carbon filter is well worth the investment.
Helps against micro dust particles and fumes a like.
I was a painter for 17 years. I sprayed often and never wore protective equipment. I began to feel weak after working out. Then I noticed I could only work 4 hours before I just couldnt work anymore. Eventually, I ended up sick and often bed-ridden for months! I couldnt shower or cook or exert my body without it completely shutting down afterwards. Even mental strain resulted in my being unable to get up. I totally prepared to die.
I am not entirely sure what happened because the doctors could not find the issue but I believe the consistent inhalation of paint fumes (including industrial coatings) damaged my liver.
I cleansed the crap out of my body and i seem to have recovered. I dont feel 100% but I am currently able to work again.
Putting anything into the lungs that wasnt meant to be there is dangerous.
Many organs are impacted ... liver and lings and kidneys and nervous system. Even the heart.
Do some good daily walking ... including longer hikes of 90 minutes to half a day. Start slowly but build up your endurance gradually.
@@howard5992 thank you so much! That is kind of what I did. At first, i could only walk a few hundred meters. Almost didnt make it home a couple of times! It was scary.
same thing happens a lot to people that build boats in their basement and things like that, the epoxy resin fumes silently and slowly kill them
@@TheSimba86 I had no idea!
If your liver was damaged, it would have showed up in blood work right away. Thankfully, there are tons of blood tests that can indicate liver function, and then further testing can be done to discover the full extent of the problem. I'm glad you're doing better now! Work on your breathing to get bigger inhales of oxygen and let out more carbon dioxide. Your body loves oxygen.
I really like this guy. I have been a ER doc for over 30 years and I am also a Forensic Pathologist (not currently practicing Pathology). There are no You Tubers that deliver Medical scenarios in such a comprehensive and rapid manner. I learn something new I can actually use in my practice each time I watch an episode. Bernard, keep up the good work.
Do you have any tips for getting into pathology? I’m in undergrad right now and forensic pathology is my number one choice right now.
Natalia
Focus on your pre- med studies first, so you can get into medical school. If pathology interests you, contact practicing pathologists and ask if you may shadow them.
You'll need to be concerned about pathology residency much later once you get into medical school. Look into pathology related opportunities when you're in medical school.
I wish he'd skip the endless word definitions though. They interrupt the flow too much and are unnecessary. He could just say what they mean instead of constantly explaining what "hypo" and "emia" mean.
i really don’t know how medical people keep up with all new things we are learning and even old problems which you don’t see very often. you’re amazing!! it’s truthfully great that he is informing us non-medical guys, but even doctors, nurses. . . way to go!!! :)
be safe and take care and many thanks :) 🌷🌱
@@SuperLordHawHaw That's done for people new to his channel/unfamiliar with medical jargon.
I had a friend who sprayed xylene at a car part factory. One day he told a story about being at work spraying, and according to other people, he turned to them and asked "can you hear that?" "Hear what?" "It sounds like chimes, like angels singing." They ended up having to drag him out of the booth into fresh air. I think he quit that job not long after that.
Lack of sleep and some amphetamines with some nitrous oxide does the same exact thing
@@deadplayanitrous oxide is barely dangerous at all unless you do thousands of canisters of it
Anyone notice how dr Bernard spent the first part of the video saying how terribly dangerous any inhalant is? If that’s true we should lock up dentists that give it to little kids in huge quantities, not just a balloon full. It’s almost like it’s actually safe or something despite what he said at the beginning.
@@honkhonk5181keep telling yourself that lol
@@honkhonk5181this very channel has a video about it, it does more damage than you think when abused
Years ago I was a painter for an industrial company and the United States Government, On a weapons system {Anti-Tank Missiles} This was all spray paint and some of it was quite toxic, however, I demanded that they supply me with the proper respirator and filters for the type of paint I was applying, the filter cartridges, two per respirator, were $9.00 each, and the life of each, when exposed to air was 20 hours, regardless of whether you were breathing through them or they were hanging on the wall, which is what the previous painter did, but when I took mine off for lunch or breaks and before going home, I keep them in an airtight bag, they didn't like having to spend that much every 20 hours, but I told them to buy them or find another painter, they continued to buy them, Thank You Dr, Bernard.
We had a case where guys were using some solvent to clean out fuel tanks on military aircraft. Turned out to be extremely carcinogenic.
Under capitalism, workers are expendable.
@@alienvomitsex Sheesh. I have worked for several DOD contractors, and they all went to fairly extreme lengths to insure the workplace was as safe as possible. Mostly because you simply would cease to exist as a company if you didn't. But we had techs in a lab working with a fairly basic epoxy worry about the fumes... extensive (and expensive) testing showed there was no real danger from them, and life went on. We *never* had any issues with workplace safety, or even the remotest of "pushback" from management for bringing up issues. We basically had a good management team, who all had "come up through the ranks" and had worked at the same place for decades, starting off pushing brooms and, well, pumping epoxy.
I would simply have instantly quit any company I felt was compromising my personal safety. There are ALWAYS other jobs. No mere work is worth your life, and when they discover they can't retain skilled workers they will either change their tune... or go out of business. Either way, it's a win.
@@MrJest2 Only in developed world, unfortunately. There are still many places when you can either work in unhealthy environment or starve.
They can go with $9 every day or enjoy OSHA shutdowns, fines and being prohibited all federal contracts.
I suspect they'll go with the $9.
Retired Army and cleared DoD contractor here. I'm very diplomatic about safety, "do you want me to shove that missile up your ass sideways, the fire the high energy igniter?", they universally go with safety.
Probably because the missile is longer than they are wide...
This is actually a pretty good warning about VOCs in general (Volatile Organic Chenicals). Everything from the new car smell, to paint chemicals, to household cleaners, to cooking at high temperatures, and even furniture can cause significant long term damage over time. It's not as acute as this case but you can easily imagine how 30 years of inhaling low doses of chemicals like this can cause organ damage and cancer. I strongly encourage everyone to get a VOC monitor and implement VOC mitigation to avoid these substantial health hazards that people carelessly underestimate.
Related: the PPE shown while he's talking about industrial workers etc. is an example of *inadequate* PPE for VOCs. For anyone out there working with substances that emit VOCs- a procedural mask or dust mask, or even dust filters on a respirator are all inadequate. A proper VOC-specific respirator is necessary.
Dude... I cook a lot, could you elaborate on the cooking stuff? Got me a little scared right now ngl 😅
@@luc8254 some gas stoves can release VOCS over time, if you cook in a well ventilated area or with a stove hood that has a fan it can mitigate the risk
This is part of why I'm furious with my mom for exposing me to various smokes throughout my life, particularly cigarette smoke, but nowadays it's marijuana smoke (I still live with her). She says it's fine, that I'm making up feeling ill from it, just because I'm not the one smoking it. I'm still inhaling the byproducts! It's just nausea, headache, dizziness, and mild confusion for now, but I could end up with a serious condition because of her and she just doesn't care...
It enrages me how corporations, knowing the danger and toxicity of VOCs, choose to put profits over consumer well-being and continue to expose us to dangerous chemicals.
My father owned a metal plating shop that I worked in and we used trichloroethylene as a degreaser. It worked amazing in that regard, but my dad had a guy that was unbeknownst to him, taking cups of it home and huffing it. He did this for about 2 weeks and one day he didn’t show up to work. They did a wellness check on him and found him dead in his apartment. Apparently, the trichlor literally dried up his lungs and killed him. Don’t huff anything but air, seriously.
*lights dab* 👀 damn
@@jjk2one that's not how that works
@@adam-mh5ou AND YOU WOULD KNOW!
Lipid production by Cryptococcus curvatus growing on commercial xylose and subsequent valorization of fermentation waste-waters for the production of edible and medicinal mushrooms
Trich is insane, in the tank we had there was a cloud of vapour above the surface, I'd heard if you moved your bare hand through it, it would come out white from defattening the skin. Also absolutely terrible for the surrounding environment
As always, the best products are always the most awful ones haha
Trichloroethylene is great.
Glad I live in a state where you can still get it.
Yes, I am careful with it.
BTW if you heat it to 600 degrees it turns to phosgene.
I think Phosgene poisoning would be one of the worst ways to go.
I heard about a guy at a DuPont plant in West Virginia who got sprayed with phosgene.
Even though he sought medical treatment immediately and felt fine he knew he was dead.
After much suffering he died the next day
There just isn't much treatment for phosgene poisoning.
I needed to hear this. I'm pregnant and my weirdest pregnancy symptom is an INTENSE craving for the scent of things like gasoline, rubber cement, spray paint (which has paint thinner in it), car exhaust, and certain markers. It's so hard not to give in to the craving, but the knowledge of just how dangerous it would be for my baby and me makes it a little easier. I'm going to give birth in 3 weeks and this craving going away is one of the biggest things I'm looking forward to. It went away after my first pregnancy, so I'm guessing it will this time too.
Dude that is so interesting! I wonder what particular nutrient could possibly be related to those chemicals..? Now I'm curious if anyone's studied the roots of pregnancy cravings
@@alexia3552 it's things with benzene, xylene, and/or toluene. It's so bizarre. I've seen other women who are pregnant or have been before talk about the cravings online, but I've never known someone in person who craved it. So weird.
Could you have a vitamin or mineral deficiency? I've heard of pregnant women craving rocks or clay because of mineral deficiencies. Check with your doctor first, but a multivitamin and some OTC iron and zinc supplements probably wouldn't kill you.
@@maddiejoy6619I have always craved those smells. My whole life. It's like pica but smells. I love pumping gas or putting gas in the lawnmower. I love using goof off to remove permanent marker. I love running the car in the garage a few minutes before leaving to get a whiff of the exhaust. I don't know why. Most people can't stand those smells, burn their eyes and throats, not me...for as long as I can remember.
@@diablominero my doctor actually tested me for deficiencies during both my pregnancies and I didn't have a deficiency that showed up either time 🙃. I guess I'm just weird.
“EA, is a 15 year old boy, presenting to the emergency room☝️ with happiness. He had just consumed 10 chubby emu videos in just one week”
EA, it's in the game!
...due to his overdose of happiness he has tachycardia which is highly fatal.
You got to pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
"This is what happened to his brain"
"This is what happened to his cat",.....
Meow, purrr purrr, purrr, meow.... 😂
When I was in my late teens a friend of mine used to sniff glue regularly. My friends and I would tell him it'd kill him one day, we'd hear about all sorts of stories about glue heads dying on the stuff, but he didn't listen. I suppose he couldn't stop. He was found dead behind a supermarket just off of Peckham High Street, he'd choked on his own vomit. I suppose he'd fallen unconcious, vomited and breathed it in somehow. He was a lovely bloke, but a demon for the glue. A pitifully sad way to die. It absolutely destroyed his mum.
I know so many people who succumbed to paint thinner addiction in the last couple of years.
Most of them are good people and I'm afraid I''ll start hearing bad news about them soon
I watched a friend go into respiratory arrest from huffing nitrous oxide.
Got him breathing again and during the mess decided, NOPE!
I found out where to get the good acetone if anyone’s interested
@@chadmarino2741 I always got mine from body shop suppliers. Used it to clean video heads.
It's so surreal seeing Peckham being mentioned in a RUclips comment section, let alone under a chubby emu video.
It doesn't surprise me how much damage things like this do to the body, but what is surprising is how much the body can take and still survive. In these videos people do stuff many orders of magnitude worse than what you'd think the lethal amount would be and many of them survive.
that's what I thought when I watched a documentary on the survivors of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima ....unbelievable
The human body is weird man. 7 hours of paint thinner? We’ll make it, chief.
Trip on a crack in the sidewalk and hit your head? Nah dog, we dead.
@@brianbanks3044 where can i find this documentary? it sounds interesting
I'm surprised they survive as well. There are many people that make it out of something they "shouldn't" but the lack of ability to do what they once could, the various therapies , the cost, ugh. They should not criminalize not being around anymore and just let people go. A life not worth it is just existing, like being a rock and having a stream flow past you.
@@ashley_smith you have to realize those people are money sources for the hospitals, they're a cash crop and only kept alive to make money from you, the government assistance and insurance
As a teenager, some of my friends would buy cans of Scotchgard, the stuff used to waterproof fabric and such. They would put it in a bag and inhale it and just be gone to some other dimension for short periods. Well the natural curiosity and wanting to see what all the Hubbub was about, I tried it a couple times. I found it to be pretty horrific, the buzz wasn't worth the side effects to me. The final straw was watching one friend inhale nothing but these fumes untill he passed out, starting having seizures, put his head through the drywall on the way to the floor. Just as I picked up the phone to call 911, he started to come out of it. I helped him sit up and he couldn't speak English,imagine the worst drunk you've ever talked to eith a massive head injury! Nothing was coherent, one massive vowel movement, almost like he was vomiting his own words. Even in this condition, he was desperately pawing at the bag and trying to get more.i obviously didn't allow it and he was filled with this animalistic rage! I didn't do it ever again. We had another friend who would sit in his shed for hours huffing gasoline. He would be in absolute cartoon land when he came out talking what we could understand about living as a cartoon character. It really really affected him. Not to be, harsh, but he was already a bit slow. This ruined him,he couldn't get past 8th grade, tried 3 times. He became a horrible horrible Alcoholic. While on work release from jail, he gets so drunk while driving back to the jail, he loses control of his car and died. Leaving 3 beautiful little girls without a father, a devasted family, and his daughters mother had never gotten over it almost 20 years later.
horrifying stuff
absolutely horrifying..
Amazing he was able to reproduce. Very sad story.
@@snowmiaowand unfortunate.
My god
I've been battling drug addiction for 30 years. Now nearing 3 years sober. I have learned so much from your videos. Great work!
Congrats my man!
That's fantastic! Well done!
Congratulations internet stranger!!!
you love to hear it, hope you’re going well :>
Congratulations on your sobriety!
This makes me think back to the episode of Rescue 911 where a 15-year old inhaled a whole can of butane. After a car ride with his buddies, he collapsed right in front of them. He was basically given help from the moment he hit the ground, including from an off-duty nurse who happened to be nearby, yet his prognosis was grim. He stopped breathing on his own, and later in the hospital, he was pulled off of life-sustaining efforts after his parents said their final goodbyes. It was a very unusual episode of that particular series, since it didn't have a happy, or even bittersweet ending; the teen just died... and we got to see how it impacted everyone around him.
I might be fairly liberal when it comes to drug policies. But really, there are some things you should never put in your body...
The truth is good education, safe places to use, and legalization prevent this. People don't use Paint thinner and Butane if you can get weed and shrooms. Those won't kill you like this.
Maybe once in a while, but criminalization killed that teen as much as Butane did.
@@RobinTheBot All of that is true... Still, I think we should avoid giving drug access to people who're still developing. Being 18 before you can legally purchase dangerous stuff just seems like the bare minimum to me.
And yes I know, some people mature quicker, or slower, than others, but it's about setting a standard. That way we don't end up in a world where nicotine addiction before puberty is normalized.
I remember that episode. I was around 7 at the time and the ending just... shocked me. Stupid 7 year old me thought every time you called 911 you will live because all the other episodes had happy endings.
@@RobinTheBot pretty much this. legalize safe recreational drugs. criminalizing it won't stop people from doing it, they'll just do it secretly using unsafe alternatives.
@@JeveGreen emotional maturity and intelligence just dont have anything to do with it. your brain isnt done developing until 25, especially the prefrontal cortex which is in charge of fun stuff like impulse control...
I'm a tire tech at an auto shop. We use a lot of real nasty chemicals to breathe (carb cleaner, brake cleaner, acetone, etc). I heard a story of a worker at another location of ours who didnt come back from his lunch break. Over an hour had passed by the time someone walked by a car in the lot and found him unconscious. He had open bottles of brake cleaner in his car. I guess they called 911, and nobody i know seems to know what happened to the guy. Yet people still make fun of me when someone uses a lot of cleaner when all the doors are closed and i wait outside until it clears.
When I was in high school I took a wood shop. I wore a mask but everyone else just breathed in the sawdust. Some people just don’t care.
We had a guy at a lab I worked at steal a nitrous oxide cylinder then suffocated while huffing it with a bag over his head to trap the gas. He forgot you need to mix it with oxygen.
Dont mind about them, take care of your own health.
Who asked.
The people making fun of you have been huffing too much of that stuff and aren't the brightest any more
I used to abuse inhalants in my youth. The low pitched slow motion laughter brought chills down my spine, it’s literally what it feels like when butane starts kicking in.
Schools really need to teach about inhalants in elementary school, I remember smelling gasoline and dry erase markers just because it smelt good
A recovering solvent abuser here. Its hard to believe that just 6 months ago I was doing the very same thing. I was regularly inhaling thinner 5-10 times a day. I was left with visual problems in both my eyes.
I just want everyone to know that this isn't jut some teen fad but is a serious addiction just like all other addictions. For whoever is struggling with addiction please know that you can get through this just like so many of us did.
Stay clean guys❤
❤
I am glad you are recovering. I hope all goes well.
You got this! Congratulations on getting clean!
Glad you're recovering!
I’m a new parent, so I’m obligated to ask:
Where were your parents, and how do I make sure my new son doesn’t engage with this?
You really have no idea what this does to good parents, I was horrified watching this entire video
Anecdotal, but I'll never forget this young guy from my home town, when we were about 14-15 he had gotten into inhaling gasoline to get high. One weekend his parents went out of town, and from his account he did nothing but huff gas for about 48-72 hours with only sleep in between. Even since then he was.. Different, like clearly something happened to his brain. He started having almost schizophrenic tendencies and semi-violent outbursts, and it only got worse. The worst part is it took years for the parents to find out he was huffing gas, and wasn't just mental health issues like they were lead to believe.
How is he now?
I'm always EXTREMELY hesitant of how FAST drug cos/Dr's are to push DIFFERENT DRUGS to people trying to get sober.
I heard a similar story like this from Reddit except it was a week instead of a weekend. This teen and his friend were home alone for the week and all they did was sit over a gas tank and huff. The guy was really messed up after, for like a month and suffered permanent damage. His friend continued and ended up as a vegetable.
Well he definitely has mental health issues now. Just with a very clear physical cause.
@@mingiisbabie7054yeah I read that. It was a dude and his cousin. He said it made him suicidal for a year, just from the misery of the headaches
I love the chemistry lessons you do with these. They make the chemical reaction process make so much more sense when there is a tangible, relatable issue to tether the theoretical math to.
Yes, he is a toxicologist. He has dedicated his life to the chemistry of the human body.
be aware that some explanations are simplified, like halogenated and aromatic.
I knew this guy who worked in an industrial paint factory for 10 years. He never wore any kind of protection to stop the fumes from getting in and the damage was clear. He often spoke incoherently and stumbled around because his muscles were weak. Don't put anything in your lungs that shouldn't be there.
When I was a teenager, a boy in my year died from inhaling lighter fluid. I never really knew him, only by name and face, as we were in different formrooms and classes and had different friend groups. Instead of educating us about the dangers of misusing dangerous chemicals, the school kept quiet about how he actually died and instead just built a memorial bench on school grounds.
Well it is not the school's job to educate you about that. The should, but it's not their job. Also, if they want the teachers to do anything extra, they should pay them extra. They should be better payed anyway.
Natural selection
@@oddvegan9797 it should be their job for CHEMISTRY
@@BbgGYATT69420 Oh yes, I totally agree some of the drug stuff is part of chemistry, and science. However, the social and mental stuff that comes with it, isn't. (How to act about peer pressure & bullying, for example.) In Ireland, they have "CSPE", which is "Civiics and Social Political Education" and "SPHE", which is "Social Personal Health Education", where you learn exactly that kind of stuff. However, in a lot of countries unfortunately they do not offer that vital, maybe life saving subject. So I'm sorry my first comment was innacurate. I should have typed "in a lot of schools they're not required to teach", not "It is not the school's job...".
Damn... d.a.r.e is gone?
Dude, nothing gets the taste of suspicious gas station sushi out of my mouth quite like huffing paint thinner.
It burns my taste buds away like nobody's business.
damn, hopefully you stop your suspicious gas station sushi raids!
nothing two bottles of cold medicine cant fix
@@daveshif2514 don't forget to wash it down with a whole jar of pickle juice 😉
@@triv4555 Silica gel packets are a good dessert
I'd stay away from that sushi.
In the early 80s as a journalist on a daily newspaper I had to cover the death of a young man who die from intentionally breathing paint thinner (with toluene.) When I contacted his sister, during the conversation I said usually such deaths (in that day and age) was from heroine. Her first comment was "oh yeah, that's the good stuff."
That kind of response is nuts! I've heard that era was all about crazy parties and clubbing. She might have befriended those kinds of people and been exposed to it. No sane person would compliment drugs. I can see why it left such a strong impression on you.
I’m gonna be honest.
I used to huff compressed air, those duster cans.
And it never got so bad I got hospitalized, but I started reading the effects, and after getting help from my family, I worked through it.
I’m lucky I had people in my life to help through a serious problem.
Hope CJ gets better, and finds help.
As a former inhalant user my self, wubwubwubwubwubwubwubwub
>inhales brain damaging fumes as an adolescent
>becomes a furry
I wonder if there's a connection?
@@akillerhippo_337 bruh
@@akillerhippo_337probably
@@akillerhippo_337Crazy how that works lmfao
For those wondering: @ 0:26 the flashing is a screen cap of GTA: San Andreas with Carl from the beginning of the game with the words _“Ah s*** here we go again.”_
TY... I hate those fraction of a second inserts ... a big distraction
@@cracked229 brother I'm on a phone
Clicked on this faster than those paint fumes could travel into that man's lungs.
🤣😂 made me laugh too hard
NOOOO!!! This is tooo good
My father was an artist working with oil paints and thus lots of solvents. I remember as a child going into his studio and nearly becoming overcome by the fumes on more than one occasion. He died of cancer, the only one in our family known to have done so, and I wonder if the decades of working in a poorly vented studio are at least partially to blame.
In any case, I minimize my hydrocarbon solvent use in my electronics work and do so outside whenever possible when the need for a solvent other than water or IPA becomes necessary.
RIP. Do you have a link to any of his artwork?
My grandfather was a house painter by trade and also painted ships. He suffered mental decline and died from what was identified as Alzheimer's, but it happened in a span of 2 years. Many of us in the family aren't sure it was Alzheimer's, and it was probably something else caused by years of paint chemical exposure.
I never work with cleaners, paint, or electronic solder without active ventilation.
@@sirgregsalot It's not online but if you search my last name, you might find a gallery or two that has a painting. The Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, TX has one of his pieces. Most are in private hands however.
The sad thing is that you don’t need to use solvents for oil paints. It is just much much easier to use.
@@YarbroK He did a lot of restoration work which is quite solvent heavy.
Used to live in a small town with a huffer. Kid came from a good family. Kind of town where everyone knew everyone. You'd see him walking with a gas can when he had to go buy a new gallon of gas. Always looking sheepish and walking fast trying to get back home. Cops knew him and couldn't do anything because there's no law against buying gasoline. His folks knew and would send him off to rehab from time to time. He'd just get out and start up again. I went off to college and my folks moved out of that town to a different city. I've always wondered what happened to him. I remember this going on for years. I know it didn't end well.
He probably ended up like my cousin who died at 16 from inhaling gasoline back in 1998.
It thins your organ walls, he’s probably dead by now
i knew a kid who did inhalants. from everyone i talked to, before he ever did them, he was a genius. He couldnt see out of his left eye, stuttered constantly, needed help with certain words, and was incredibly emotionally stunted.
it horrifies me. every single time i remember him, i thank god that i never did anything worse than xanax.
Ooph... that hit me in the gut. What despair is in the mind to think that huffing for a short high is a solution to overwhelmiing circumstances. It's a death sentence.
@@cdes1776 he had a good life before that. There wasn't stress he couldn't cope with or anything like that
The horrifying part is that he just did it.
@@cursedgamer2778 I can't comprehend what led him to do it. So extreme.
@@cursedgamer2778 You might be right from an outside perspective, but the simple fact of the matter is that addiction doesn't usually happen if a user doesn't feel like their substance of choice helps them cope with something they otherwise couldn't. This may be due to outside influence (which some people can be *very* good at hiding) or some form of mental illness, the result is the same and unless you know the person extremely well you may never know for sure. The strange thing is that with some combinations of drugs and users, the drug actually does help - the trick is to figure out which works well enough with minimal side effects. Unfortunately, getting through that process isn't easy and getting help near impossible in a lot of places.
That's really sad. I hope he is living his best life now and has a great aupport system.
I am a registered nurse, and I have these old medical textbooks and home health (for the lay person) manuals from the 1930s back to 1844. They recommended using turpentine for almost everything. Breathing in the fumes, placing it on your skin as a poultice. Mercury was used in wound care until the 1930s. The directions of care of common diseases horrifies me but fascinates me as well. I will read those books and start talking to whoever is nearby in the house. "Do you know what they did for x? Slathered on some mercury! Ugh! Now look! This is awful! How did anyone live?!"
there was a lot of stuff that made some sense and served a medicinal purpose but was misused or there turned out to be better alternatives (like cocaine was used as an anesthetic and is still sometimes used as a topical anesthetic) but yeah idk where the idea of using mercury came from, theres no positive effect it can have on you i have to imagine this was just some alchemy belief lol
@@BlisaBLisa mercury did seem to have a slight antibacterial affect, but the cost sure wasn't worth it. Or, maybe it was back then. A little madness over death might be preferable. 🤷♀️🤷♀️ I know it was widely used as an STD "cure". There were specially made chocolates so that the infected could more easily take his (or her) treatment without others knowing.
But yes, there are medications and therapies in these old books that are still used today. Aspirin, of course, being another; digitalis, not so commonly used now, also showed up. I sometimes would remember another medication with its botanical history as I flipped through the books and saw the more raw form being used.
different zeitgeist, different time
That's why so many people chose to treat themeselves at home. They were right not to trust the doctors, who were being taught all the wrong things.
And to think, medical science still has a long way to go, and still has its detractors like homeopaths.
My sister was in a car accident at 18, and had pretty severe brain damage. She had to go through years of therapy, re-learning how to do basically everything.
Today, you could never tell. The brain's plasticity is astonishing. It gives me hope for the individual described in this case, as young as he is.
This is also why it's important to paint in well-ventilated areas. I spent all day working on an oil painting in my room and made myself sick.
Definitely. I'm an artist and back in my college days I exclusively painted in oils while using paint thinner/turpentine to clear away the paint from my brushes every so often. I was in my room with no windows open or anything. Eventually I started feeling sick and my eyes would burn too. It took me longer than it should have for me to start painting in more well ventilated areas and thankfully I didn't do any permanent damage that I know of.
@@ConsciousCloud Glad you use good ventilation now. I recently learned that Bob Ross died of cancer that was most likely caused by long-term regular exposure to the turpentine paint thinner he used. He painted in a windowless room and usually had an open can of turpentine in front of him as he painted for hours with no ventilation.
Yup, I'm an art student currently and this type of stuff scares me. Whenever I spray anything (whether for charcoal, painting, etc), I always do it outside
@@thenonsequitur Oh wow I actually had no idea his cancer was related to that.. You would think the studio and film crew would have made more ventilation in that room for him but maybe back then people weren't as aware of the dangers of paint and turpentine fumes. Really sad.
I know it’s not your usual style, but I’d watch a series that talks about how different recreational drugs work. You’re good at explaining pharmacology.
Check out the drug classroom they have really informative videos
A drug series would be incredible, where the focus is moreso on the theme of the effects of the drug rather then individual cases
I second both of these comments. I want to know what is actually happening because nobody really explains it
Growing up I have watched a lot of my friends and family destroy their lives with various drugs and alcohol. It would help make things make sense. Bring some sort of closure in a way I guess
There really needs to be more education and exposure of common drugs. Not only to help educate recreational users, but also so loved ones can see what to look for if it becomes a problem.
Just know what opioid overdose looks like, and how narcan can be used for that will save a ton of lives.
I'm a painter, and my wife used to always ask me why I paint with all the windows open even in the smack dab middle of winter. She no longer questions because she understands the possible harms that come from prolonged exposure. I guess I'll forward this to her to justify the heating bill lol
Perhaps an industrial grade ventilation unit would be a good idea for your studio? Should pay for itself in only a couple years, considering your heating bill.
@@CaptainDCap I'm actually working on it myself. I have a ventilation port on the wall in one of the rooms, so it really shouldn't be too difficult.
@@gmkbass Sick. I'm interested in how it turns out :)
@@gmkbass I recommend to check on it too, theses can be filthy and not filter properly.
Just answered this in another comment chain: search for D-Limonene. Works wonders for oils and its very safe. Take care!
I worked at a large commercial aviation repair station in the 1990’s (Tramco/BF Goodrich Aerospace) and witnessed several occasions in which my fellow mechanics “huffed” at work. One individual would take small pieces of the shop rags, soak them in MEK, insert them into his respirator, and then fit it onto his face. Needless to say when he was caught doing this on several occasions he was fired. Drug and alcohol testing was conducted regularly at this facility due to it being subject to FAA regulations. People found creative ways to get high at work.
oh hey dr. bernard! thanks for posting this! i'm actually 1 year clean of huffing as of today, this was grim but reassuring of my decision!
EDIT: everyone replying has been so kind. thank you all for reaffirming my decision for a better life. :)
@Don't Read My Profile Photo cool thanks i won't!
jesus
Congrats bro ! this shit is horrible
@@lerigolo1661 it really is. i'm glad i managed to stop, i didn't have much damage but i know it could have gotten way worse if i kept going-- i'm lucky to have people around me who called me on my shit so i could recognize how bad it really was and could've been. support matters most, glad to have yours 💕
1 year is a big achievement, nice job bro. Proud of you
The human body is simply fascinating to me. I don’t personally have any experience with inhalants, but this did remind me of a chemical we used in the aviation/aerospace industry to clean all exposed surfaces upon final inspection. We called it “trich” (pronounced ‘trike’) and it’s fumes were so powerful, it could cause you to pass out. Worse than that, however, was the fact that if you were caught using it without wearing gloves, you’d be fired on the spot. The reason being that so many workers had been hospitalized with permanent damage to their liver and kidneys as a result of the chemical being absorbed through the skin on their hands.
Oh I had a moment of panic recently, after accidentally spilling some liquid cement (used in model making) on a small area of only one hand. I immediately thought of the Chubby Emu video where a chemist spilled some mercury I think, on her hand, and the brief period of contact was all it took to be absorbed into her body and cause her later death.
Anyway, I wiped it off, but it took a few more minutes before I could get back indoors (I was outdoors, so that the vapors could dissipate out in the open air - label warned you to not use in an enclosed space) and wash my hand.
Anyway, I was fine, and although I worried for a while about the longterm effects of the exposure, I rationalized that it wasn't liquid mercury, and the exposure area and exposure time was quite small, and that it would be okay. I believe the chemicals might be teratogenic, but I'm past the age of having children so that's not a concern. I really should've been more sensible and worn gloves, but I'm not usually clumsy like that, and I figured I could get it done quickly without incident.
I remember as a child, how I'd always try to hold my breath whenever my father pulled into a gas station and filled up the car tank. The smell was so awful, even inside the car (some of the smell would float in when my father opened the car door). I can't imagine having to work at them.
BTW what is trich short for? I'm guessing it must be tri-chloro -something. I did organic chemistry in high school a long time ago, and I can still remember a bit of it.
@S Y
I’m only about 95% sure, but trichloroethylene seems to be what I’m referring to.
@@soyburglar77 It could also be 1,1,1-trichloroethane. Both compounds were used industrially as solvents, and both are colorless and sweet-smelling (1,1,1-trich is also known as methyl chloroform, so you can see where the sweet smell comes from). And both can cause people who are exposed to them, to become dizzy and unconscious.
1,1,1-trich is possibly more likely to be the one, as it is regulated by the Montreal Protocol and its use is being rapidly phased out, and its use in correction fluid/whiteout was discontinued due to being declared hazardous and toxic.
My father’s metal plating shop used trichloroethylene as a degreaser and it was NASTY stuff. He eventually moved away from it to something less toxic and safer to use.
@@joeb2 What was the safer alternative?
For anyone who works with paint thinner and similar chemicals, make sure you wear proper PPE, even if it's just a 3M 6000 series elastomeric mask with A1P2 (active carbon, with particulate filter) filters. These are relatively cheap and keep you from having to breathe in things that absolutely will harm your body and life in the long run.
Remember: you can only get that bad news from the doctor once, but prevention is a continuous thing.
Even just sweeping in the warehouse where I work I'm making a habit of wearing at least a dust mask, don't need to find out what any of those types of dust can do firsthand
@@UNSCPILOT Indeed, never know when you're breathing in random asbestos fibers or bacteria that will fascinate scientists after your inevitable autopsy :)
Too bad most of those masks actually make it terribly hard to breathe and cause overheating. I lost 30% of my lungs due to chronic bronchitis that went undiagnosed for four or five years, and I get lightheaded to the point of seeing static when I wear them. It took several meetings to get my employer to buy me a respirator mask.
Bernard, very informative website. I met you at Loren and Sarah's house. i will be going through your videos. Fyi, i have been painting with oil based and lacquers for years. i used to not worry about masks but now i always have a organic vapor respirator. i cant believe how many times i sprayed either oil based or lacquer based without any protection. i got sick one time after spraying a complete kitchen and from that day on. i have used masks. nice meeting you and i hope you all enjoyed your concert. thanks Bobby
I Use to work for PPG PAINTS. And let me just say, some of those smelling senses were addicting. BUT I KNEW BETTER 😂 Some of their products were really strong. Plz read the labels and know what you're doing when handling toxic products. Love the breakdown btw !
I go into autobody shops all day long. Big change these days. Most booths in larger shops are marked with isocyanate warnings.
I know what you mean about the smells though. I'm pretty sure it's the clear coat that has that sweet, candy smell, but most of the paints these days are all waterborne to minimize the use of solvent carriers, as you would probably well know.
@@minkorrh Facts dude 👍
Kem Bond from sherwin smells insanely good which is honestly scary.
It contains a shit ton of amyl acetate derivatives which ALL smell like banana flavoring but is a super-strong solvent-based primer.
I used to work at a paint shop and we had one guy who worked there for decades and never wore a mask. The smell of paint thinner in that place was crazy and this guy was going about his 12 hour shift with no mask.
I'm honestly surprised he never ended up in the hospital. He'll probably die too soon from his lack of care
Exact same situation, but said guy died of lung cancer at 60 years old. He never got to retirement.
If you go by the typical nail salon at a mall, the smell of solvent is overpowering. And the workers have on useless paper masks. I worry about their health too.
@@jdraven0890 oh yeah I know this one too well, one day it smelled likethey threw over a bottle of acetone.
He probably had good genetics in the liver and lung department. Genetics loads the gun but lifestyle pulls the trigger. His gun probably wasnt loaded lol
@@SOSPainting nah. He's got the same loaded gun. He just lucked out by having a worn out firing pin.
My first reaction when I saw the title was to think that the patient was a factory worker or a painter who had no kind of PPE. To think that CJ huffed for 7 hours straight is mind bogglingly insane.
Anyone notice how dr Bernard spent the first part of the video saying how terribly dangerous any inhalant is? If that’s true we should lock up dentists that give it to little kids in huge quantities, not just a balloon full. It’s almost like it’s actually safe or something despite what he said at the beginning.
To note is that high enough concentrations can do damage much faster. A college of mine won a trip to the ICU for a few days because he went digging through the paint disposal container, which is normally locked and has a gasket to stop vapors from escaping. That way he got a load of highly contaminated air and was out in a few seconds flat.
Many years ago, while working for a small print shop, the print operator and I witnessed a client come out into the production area, ask where the paint thinner was, then proceed to put it to his nose and inhale. The operator and I looked at each other in shock! I wonder if he’s still alive.
you ever wondered what would happen if you huffed paint thinner for 7 hours well this video shows you what would happen cause someone has already tried it so you don't have to
We use thinner to clean spray glue off of cabinet surfaces, always in areas with plenty of air movement. About 7 years ago we had a guy working with us who had a bit of a drug problem. ( we didn't know ) I had set him to cleaning a kitchen area and left to install more cabinets. I came back about 40 minutes later, I could smell the thinner all the way down the hallway and just assumed he had knocked over the bottle of thinner. I got to the kitchen and the fumes were burning my eyes, but he was no where around. Just as i was turning to leave and get a fan I heard a noise from one of the larger base cabinets. I opened the door on it to find him leaning against the wall of the cabinet wiping the saturated rag on the wall so that it evaporate quickly and just breathing it in. He didn't even notice that I was there until I started dragging him out of the room. He didn't work for us much longer after that.
As an apprentice cabinetmaker yeah. Thinners to clean the extra glue off the edge tape. I always wear a simple mask for that, cleaning all panels, doors, draws & carcasses, drilling & cutting as well for as I found out I'm allergic to something in MDF boards. I ain't taking my chances despite even my boss had objections for me wearing mine.
@@tristanbackup2536 Something to keep in mind with that mask, a lot of the fumes from thinner and other solvents have a tendency to linger in the air, your mask may give them something to absorb into. A fan is the best thing to have when dealing with fumes, even if on a very slow setting it will keep a stream moving and clear the air.
If your allergy is a skin allergy, constant exposure can make it worse, a lot of the old timers wore long sleeve shirts all year just to keep the dust off their skin.
I've seen this twice. Once with a young man that went to school with my little brother. The other was a homeless young man in Mexico.
The cognitive damage to both was the saddest thing, yet they kept with their habit. A true tragedy.
*ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS NOT INHALE THE DAMN PAINT THINNER FUMES CJ!*
As someone who's recovered from addiction, I'm infinitely grateful to have never reached this point. I hope CJ was able to make - if not a full recovery - at least a substantial one. Both from his addiction and from the physical effects of it.
I put my hamster in a sock and slammed it against the furniture.
@@TippyHippy why
@@drascia eh, don't engage with him. He wants attention from others that his mama didn't give.
Most recreational drugs won't do this too the body, more so they change the brain, but not in ways that will normally kill (unless you cold-turkey from gabanerics). Inhalants, however, are extremely detrimental to the brain and body, and can cause irreversible damage.
It is time to face reality. It's people thinking they are invincible that leads to these things happening. The truth is that CJ did make A recovery. He will not age gracefully unfortunately and he probably lost a few decades of life due to the organ damage. The liver is the only organ that can somewhat fix itself, organ damage is permanent. Be careful young people out there.
That air duster in a can has never looked so scary
I recommend getting an electric duster (its around $100, but much safer)
Those are pretty harmless aside from asphyxiation risks.
In Jr. High, they actually sent in a cop to our class to tell us about how his son had died of cardiac arrest while breathing air duster, so I managed to avoid that entirely. Still feel a bit on edge whenever I use it.
@@reid3031 they should play a couple of chubby vids in class
I have ADHD and so I chew/fidget on a lot of things. Once I put an air duster nossle in my mouth (I can't remember why) and accidently sprayed a tiny amount, I instantly spat it out knowing nothing good was going to be in the can. The brain effects didn't take long , noticable headache, slight cognitive issues. I felt weird body wise. This video by chubbyemu explains alot, but I did my research at the time and honestly it was incredibly hard to find good information about the effects of air duster.
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They say solvent misuse can kill, but they don't say why. There needs to be health and safety classes in schools, that effectively explain WHY solvents are dangerous. There are many people who do dangerous things, nothing happens to them, so they do it again and again believing they are different and/or the warning isn't as bad as they make it out to be. For example someone who knows how and why speeding is dangerous is much less likely to speed than someone who has just been told speeding is dangerous.
It’s amazing what a blood test tells us. Fascinating.
It can only give you a snapshot in time though. Plus you don't test for everything and you can miss something if you don't look for it.
@@SuperLordHawHawwhat else can u do then to check ur body?
@@dad691 liver function tests, thyroid function test u+e's
Ive been spraying and using paint thinner for 25 years . Ive stopped now for about 2 months . My whole body still feels like crap. I dont know how im still alive
Toxicomania is an extreme threat in Eastern Europe and post soviet space in general, I have seen children as young as 5 inhaling glue and gasoline fumes, also this was the first thing that I learned from my cousin.
The average life expectancy of someone who does that from the moment they start is 2 years, but for a miracle my cousin managed to stop with his addiction, escape mobilisation and now lives in a different city on the other side of russia.
But most aren't that lucky.
I drank paint thinner when I was four and the first hospital I got taken to said that “I’d pass it” and be fine.
A handful of hours later my bloated fumey self was taken to another hospital where they were amazed I was alive.
25 years later and I’m still waiting for that to come back and bite me
no kidney damage?
You were young, all your cells have been replaced many times over since then. You're safe.
drinking is different than breathing it.
When you breath it, the gasses quickly get into the blood stream and are technically inside your body.
When you digest something, that is technically not inside your body. It will have to pass through the intestinal lining into blood vessels first.
Since your digestive tract consist of differing chemical environments and has other digesting contents in it, chances are that not that not much will get into your blood stream. These paint thinners are all lipophilic and there will be fats in your digestive tract. It probably rather wants to stay there than get into less fatty blood.
Dont think that after 25 years you still have anything to worry about wrt that.
ofc at that moment there was risk, depending on how much you drank and so. But thats long gone.
I made funny number likes
You are not long for this world.
I love this channel so much. Between the way he breaks down medical terms very easily to the way he describes patients recoveries gives the impression he really cares about his work. And I really appreciate that.
Yes
I made the mistake once of spraying a chemical called " break free" on some siezed/rusted bolts on the exhaust components of a hot recently driven car I was working on. The terrible smelling fumes quickly overtook me in such a way that I could barely speak and became so weak that I couldn't even hold my head up. All I could do was lay there and call out to a nearby friend standing just feet away. He had to drag me out to fresh air and thought I was joking. Upon reading the label afterward it specifically warned not to use it on hot surfaces. I thought it was just another off brand form of WD-40. I read labels now.
Sad that he thought you were joking. That can be deadly. Glad you recovered and are reading labels.
This stuff is notorious among amateur chemists for containing Hydrofluoric Acid, which is like Hydrochloric Acids evil brother. Incidental contact can cause death bc it basically steals the calcium out of your nerves. Super scary stuff
Inhaling paint thinner fumes for 7 hours non stop should be a world record
NO it should not! Declare anything a world record and some fool will work to out do it. THINK before you speak or type.
@@Auntee-Sara This is why darwin awards exist, but i do agree with you on the fact that the way they phrased it could encourage others to “attempt to beat the record”.
@@Auntee-Sara It's a joke
Can you imagine that? The official Guinness timekeepers sitting nearby by with their stopwatches and all of a sudden you hear "7 hours, 1 minute, and 12 seconds! Let's goooo!"
@@Auntee-Sarabro chill out, if someone actually took what Op said as a challenge in a youtube comment section then the parents failed on they're part and Nautral selection will do its thing.
Besides this thing called Tik Tok been doing the very thing your complaining about for awhile
This guy’s content is so great lmao
A full recovery 😄
A recovery 😕
At autopsy 😭
"The body was returned to the relatives"
Well he’d already mentioned permanent damage several times, so hearing a recovery was somewhat of a relief.
@@Fishy_17I thought he’d absolutely be dead until I heard “A recovery”. After all that damage any kind of recovery seems like a miracle in this case 😂
@Canle "He was returned to his family for processions": Not alive anymore
In one episode, I was so trilled and hopeful it ends well, but then he said: "At autopsy they discovered...." :(
I used to work at a prison. This didn't happen while I was there but another officer told me that a while before I started somebody sprayed a piece of paper with wasp killer spray and then mailed the piece of paper to and inmate. That inmate rolled that piece of paper up and smoked it like a joint. He thought he was going to get super high off of it but ended up destroying his esophagus and lung tissue. Just know that there is always somebody out there who is stupid enough to try anything just to get high or trip
Formaldehyde is abused sometimes this way. Perhaps someone told him that wasp killer had formaldehyde in it?
"Formaldehyde" is SLANG for PCP, not an actual drug.
@@pushytubyou would be surprised how many people actually smoked formaldehyde because they thought thats what people meant with embalming fluid/formaldehyde
Did he not know it was wasp killer spray 😭😭😭 I don't know what else he expected
The formaldehyde slang confusion has led to a few people getting deathly ill or losing their lives. Folks have burglarized funeral homes for it only to learn the hard way it was the wrong chem.
I sniffed rubber cement about 5 times when I was a kid. Each trip was worse than the last. I would hear echoing words and a trippy music. It sounded like high and low pitched bass and tones similar to when you get a hearing test as a kid. But the music was the same each time. Also, I would have uncontrollable body movements that weren't my own. It scared the shit out of me. To this day, I can't even smell glue or I feel like I'm gonna have a flash back.
Now I wanna sniff some glue - Ramones
Worked in a factory years ago in the circuit board area. They decided to paint the work room floor with "special" paint that would keep us grounded so static electricity wouldn't blow the boards. Instead of shutting down the room to paint, the idiots painted with us in it. The maintenance man would bring the drum of paint in, poor into a plain bucket and run out with the actual paint bucket with the name on it so we wouldn't see what it said. We all became very sick. Heart palpitations, turning bright red, I threw up. To this day I have no clue what was used on that floor. Worst environment I've ever had to work in.
I hope you guys pursued a class action lawsuit.
I would have puked ON the floor and made them have to close it up.
Hope you all sued
There are many types of paints with fumes that can make you sick, like polyurethane paints, it is hard to narrow it down unless someone caught a glimpse of the actual paint bucket, and that is the scary part.
When I was much younger, I lived with a roommate who had 3 children. Her daughter's friend bought a bottle of whiteout from the office supply store and emptied it into a paper bag. He rode around with a couple of buddies, huffing on the bag repeatedly. After an hour or so, the other boys noticed that he stopped moving and didn't respond to them calling out to him or shaking him. They drove to the emergency room, but it was too late. He died not long after they reached the hospital. Don't inhale anything that isn't air, kids.
Oh I remember some kids would briefly sniff their liquid paper (that was the brand name, the one that first came out as far as I can remember, so everyone called it that) whenever they got a new bottle. Also, some kids sniffed their magic markers etc., but you know, for a second or two when they opened it. I never did it - couldn't understand why as the smell was not pleasant in my opinion, and I would probably have, even when I was 10 or so, realized it was dangerous (I'm sure there were warnings on labels). But I never knew of anyone who regularly sniffed in order to get some kind of high from it.
What I do remember though, is hearing news stories of Aboriginal youths (the native people of Australia) in the more remote parts of Australia, sniffing petrol (gasoline) and how it was a serious problem, and caused brain damage. It was, I think, the mid-80s when I heard about it. I was in my early teens then, and I couldn't understand why they'd do such an obviously damaging thing.
Don't inhale anything that isn't air, or isn't medically ment to go that way in responsible doses, stuff like asthma inhalers are good when used correctly
Chubbyemu's videos are more informative and interesting than the don't do (fill in the blank) videos we watched as teens. While I wasn't tempted to ever inhale such things, I think that more kids would've at least watched the videos if they had been made like these - easy to understand but not dumbed down or preachy.
such a difference in how we were taught about illegal drugs vs how we were taught about legal ones like tobacco and alcohol... they knew we were all familiar w tobacco and alcohol and its just a normal thing in our society so they didnt try to use scare tactics they just explained the physical/medical effects of it. the way they taught abt illegal drugs was way more emotion-driven and used scare tactics. its so dumb.
Toxicology is good to know.
I just looked over at my pantry closet and saw a bag full of poison- dried kidney beans.
Raw or undercooked, they are toxic with letting. Properly prepared, tasty.
Wild cassava is toxic as well. A popular famine food, common, lousy with cyanide compounds if not properly prepared.
Peanuts, soybeans and even potatoes carry toxins that can kill.
I met a guy in rehab for huffing keyboard duster.
He had a masters degree in electrical engineering, so must have been a smart guy at one time.
But he lost so much brain matter from chronic abuse of air duster that he was severely mentally impaired.
He was very child-like and needed help with many things. It was pretty tragic.
What scares me most about inhalant abuse is how users describe the neural damage like a good thing. They say at first it was just peripheral effects like auditory warping and lightheadedness, it then progresses to visual hallucinations and delusions/blackouts depending on the inhalant. It's so sad once you know what's going on.
I went to school with some guys who would inhale those compressed air cans intentionally during class (vo-tech). This explains a lot about those people then and now.
Dang I saw the title and assumed somebody fell asleep in a room with some evaporating paint thinner. It makes me sick thinking about times I've accidentally gotten a strong whiff of the stuff, I can't imagine intentionally inhaling it, let alone doing so for hours on end.
We call that the Hank Hill Maneuver.
Joking aside, I agree, the idea of it sounds disgusting. But people will do desperate things when they are that sad and depressed.
I work at a container chassi refurb shop . My heart goes out to to the painters that work here… they are literally constantly breathing in industrial Chinese LEAD BASED paint and primer. Don’t even get me started on the thinner… sometimes at the end of the day they’re in the break room smiling looking geeked out of their mind :(
They say that when they take a week vacation they can feel their sanity coming back
I love how this has come from a gaming, fitness channel, to a medical knowledge cornucopia...
Once upon a time I used to work in insurance claims. A particular case I remember well.
The patient (homeless late teen male) was abusing VOC's under a bridge next to a burn barrel. The vapours caught alight and burned his lungs and airway. With medical care he survived his injuries but post-op notes contra-indicated opioid pain relief given his addiction potential under lifestyle circumstances. Life must have really sucked thereafter...
Don't do it kids!
Very good presentation, Doctor! I'm a retired chemist, who had routinely used every
solvent you mentioned; as they are heavily used in the plastics industry. Of course
I worked inside a fume hood,or wore an appropriate respirator for the types I was using...,
mostly acetone, methyl-ethyl ketone(MEK) toluene, and xylenes. When I was employed,
it seemed most people wore protection very infrequently, with other chemists being
the worst offenders! (saying,"My professor in college never wore a respirator/used a fume hood",etc)
I wonder how they are doing in old age after all the years of heavy solvent exposure...,
My grandpa was a painter for 40 years he got stage 4 lung cancer and died 2022 😢😢
I was a 16 year old toluene addict and spent years in youth rehab. I'm 43 now. Luckily, the damage wasn't so permanent in my case. I would use daily for many months.
The damage is done and your lifespan has been reduced.
Dude don’t be an asshole, not necessary. Congrats on your recovery mate, wishing you all the best 😊
Well done.
@@greg77389 ass
@@greg77389 people's tolerance are highly different because of genetic makeup. You got people who's been exposed to all kind of toxic chemicals and radiation who goes on to live a long life. Then you have people obessing with health, living optimally who out of nowhere get's hit with cancer and checks out. Your genes decides what your body can handle.
Awesome video as always. It unlocked an old memory for me. I used to live with someone who suffered from hypokalemic periodic paralysis. If she didn't get enough potassium she would be unable to move her limbs and would become temporarily paralyzed.
The one time I thought I could go without a respirator around something like this, I got a nasty headache lasting through the next day. In retrospect, I appreciate the lesson that taught me.
At first, I thought this was about a work accident.
Can we appreciate how amazing the human body is? The body work so hard to save us or delay consequence from our own bad decisions sometimes. We definitely shouldn't take advantage of that, but when you break it all down, it's just amazing what the body does to work and correct when things are wrong.
This is super sad what happened with this man, but his body worked hard to try and save him til he could get to the hospital, and worked to try and protect him from prior misuse
this story goes to show what happens if you breath in paint thinner for to long what it can do to you once it gets into your body
Thats what 4 billion years of evolution does to a body; you’d think after being poisoned probably trillions of times in total, the systems of a body would have quite a few systems in place to prevent death
Whoa. I’m a nursing student and I believed it was bc it starved the brain of oxygen. This was extremely informative. Also much more terrifying. I remember working with toluene in orgo and biochem labs. Glad there was never a spill or anything.
Education ain't what it used to be. Nurses like this are why I don't go to the hospital unless I'm dieing.
@@drbobsnightmare2521 Yeah for real.
And you pay for the privilege.
I'm not paying to be some class flunking nurse's guineapig while she figures it out.
@@drbobsnightmare2521 There is a reason why she's a nursing student. She won't be in the hospital making diagnosis's and making the top decisions in regards to treatment plans. She'll mostly be doing what the doctor tells her, except for split second decisions which they are trained for.
Anyone notice how dr Bernard spent the first part of the video saying how terribly dangerous any inhalant is? If that’s true we should lock up dentists that give it to little kids in huge quantities, not just a balloon full. It’s almost like it’s actually safe or something despite what he said at the beginning.
@@baronzeegmot3801unless she becomes an NP
This was the most clearly explained video you've done. I knew the moment you talked about poor muscle tone that it was rhabdomyolysis and had something to do with potassium and muscles being torn up, simply because of how many of these I've watched. But now I understand how it works better. Thanks so much, from a non-medic who dropped school science at age 16.
doing anything to much is bad paint thinner to much is not surprising that it can be bad if you do to much of it🤣
I was confused when the store cashier questioned if I was going to abuse canned air for cleaning dust off of computer components. It took me awhile to learn people abuse those like paint thinners.
I feel like we haven't heard you say '-emia, meaning presence in blood' in a while. It was so nice to hear.
Multiple failures in one go? I'm going to try this and see if my doctors can figure it out!
No, I'm not.
On a more serious note, I remember 'painters disease' suddenly being a thing, about 30 years back. Painters, having been exposed to paint thinner over a number of years (such as toluene) began to get ill with a wide variety of symptoms. Chronic Toxic Encephalopathy.
The rage today is inhaling laughing gas, N2O. It can cause B12 deficiency which leads to neurological damage.
but with moderate use it's relatively safe. there's a reason dentists administer it to children
Name a dentist that would give me toluene to huff for my wisdom teeth.
@@DuckPerc i think he was talking about laughing gas
At 26 seconds, I managed to capture that millisecond clip you included as you were speaking about his erratic heart rhythm. It looks like a clip from grand theft auto. Nicely done sir 😏 your sense of humor is always a nice touch to these informative videos.
I once heard of a man who drowned when he fell into vat of furniture polish. Witnesses said he had a terrible end, but a beautiful finish.
Growing up in the 1960s, I was a typical boy who loved building model cars. Bending over a table in my house working on small parts one day, I didn't notice the glue was oozing out of the tube. I suddenly woke up in the yard with the worst headache I'd ever had.. I'd been overcome by the fumes, and my oldest brother found me passed out face down in the glue. To this day I cannot comprehend why anyone would intentionally sniff inhalants.
i fully believe only people that are truly suffering would do something like that. sniff solvents
Knew a guy who claimed to have huffed 500 can's of ether starting fluid, his fall back when he couldn't get anything else. Did a bit myself back in the early 80's, most fascinating drug trips ever but also got a bit of tinnitis, quite then and never touch it.
Oh man I needed this. Always a great day when chubbyemu uploads! Thank you for your hard work.
oh I thought you needed this because you were considering huffing paint fumes... lol
I work in a composites machine shop and we take safety very seriously. Most older machinists and technicians all have work-related health problems due to safety regulations not being as heavily enforced several decades ago. Today, all areas exposed to composite dust (some of which contains metals like boron), acetone, IPA, etc. all have dust collectors, fume hoods, and PPE free of charge. The company also provides a monetary incentive for people who get an annual physical. None of the younger employees have work-related health issues.
Yet
Must be nice
A clear indicator this guy was doing paint thinner for 3 hours straight would be him smelling like paint thinner.
Oh god… there’s nothing scarier than huffing in my opinion & I was a heroin / fentanyl addict (in recovery). The feeling is awful… I remember trying it first at like 14 years old with a whipped cream can while at home & I literally thought I’d die so I went into the living room & laid down so I’d be found & saved hopefully if I started dying. I was okay. I had a friend who was addicted to huffing & she was seriously anorexic & she was having seizures constantly. It was terrifying. I loved her so much & im so sad that drugs ruined our friendship…
That sounds like an awful experience you had to make. I hope you are doing better now
Congrats on being in recovery, I wish you all the best 🩷
Nitrous oxide in whipped cream cans is different from something like paint or lighter fluid fumes, I wouldn't compare the two.
im a recreational nitrious oxide user. N20 is literally the only safest inhalant to abuse. Any other inhalant is quite deadly to abuse
The last time I saw someone doing that, they suffered hematomas, edema and an abrupt increase in intracranial pressure.
In other words, they blew their freakin'' brains out.
Anyone else notice the googly smiling and frowning blood cells at 6:10? Can’t unsee it.
Technically not all inhalants are toxic. Nitrous oxide is not toxic at all assuming you get enough oxygen. Amyl nitrite and related chemicals are not problematic usually from what I’ve observed. However industrial solvents and such are pure poison.
When i read the title i thought he worked as a painter and felt sorry for the hardworking man , im too innocent for this world
I can remember back in the day cleaning old fashioned IBM 3420 tape drives with a solvent containing dichlorodiflouroethane. It took approximately 30 minutes to clean them all and they had to be cleaned at the beginning and end of each 12-hour shift. One's hands would turn white after cleaning because we never used gloves nor any respirator protections. Nobody ever voiced a concern. I wonder what harm was done from that stuff.
Which reminds me of the time when we used to clean those old-fashioned IBM 3420 ....
This is great work Doc; please keep it up! Abuse of substances like this is out of control. Thank you.
Def gonna wear my well fitting respirator with appropriate catriges when working with these types of chemicals. Id love to see you analyze common working hazards like excessive sawdust, small metal particles, and common fumes from various metals.