Detoxifying from fumes

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Why are there bugs in your bedroom?

[quote]white spirit fumes and also deltamethrin

No idea wtf this means. Do you know what Datalounge is? We're not a bunch of chemists actually.

[quote]My breathing has been mildly wheezy all day, and I have had a weird sluggish agitated feeling as well as dry sore eyes

Yeah these signs point to GET THE FUCK OUT.

It doesn't kill bedbugs and it shouldn't kill you. White spirits though.... hmmm.

R3 thanks for the article, that is very reassuring.

Guess I panicked trying to clean the delta off my surfaces (with the white spirit...) for nothing. How embarrassing.

Still concerned about the spirit fumes, though. I don’t want to asphyxiate in my sleep. Some people sleep in rooms they painted during the day, though, right?

I'm not a doctor hun. Can't you go sleep in the cellar, attic, hotel, McDonalds, park bench for an evening?

Well, considering I live in the middle of nowhere in a rented bungalow with no loft or cellar or garage, and I don’t have money to blow on hotels? No, not really😰

My bathtub is wet from my roommmate using it, and there is someone crashing on our couch. Short of sleeping on the cold dirty porchstep or with a dog on the kitchen floor, I’m out of options.

you could dry the bathtub hun. You could wash the kitchen floor and sleep with the dog. He'll be happy.

[quote] Guess I panicked trying to clean the delta off my surfaces (with the white spirit...)

3/10

R7 not happening lmao😐It’s not my dog so naturally I don’t fully trust it or its owner. Plus he runs around in garbage all day, he could have any sort of disease. Surely no-one here does things like that?

Could sleep in the tub, but knowing my back they’ll have to bury me there too.

R8 sadly not an EST. Yes, I’m dumb, yes, I panicked. I just want to not die from my mistake. Maybe I could just sleep with a window open—it’s fucking freezing and not secure, but maybe it will stop any vapours...

Just got my roommate to come in and investigate, and she says she only smells faint spirit. So that’s a good sign, I guess?

yeah

host a sex party and tell participants you've spilled the poppers. . . inevitably they'll inhale the fumes. though leave a few behind in their wake.

r6 there are a few sites for airbnb type rentals in the middle of nowhere... usually cheaper than hotels. but you could rinse out your eyes, nasal passages, consider using a topical decongestant, humidifier or boil a pot of water, plant your face over the pot and place a towel over your head.

if you're as ghetto as you claim to be chances you know some people that know some people that can get you access to albuterol and nebulizer or just an inhaler.

there are some weak otc options

next time show wuv and concern for the dog's health and you'll get better responses than just being a trailer park queen

it's never too late to turn your first trick ...live life on the edge, who knows whose bed you'll end up in!

Why not whine and cry to your roommate and beg her to switch beds with you for the night?

R13 I’m asking for advice, not whining. And I’m not so much of a shitty person to make someone else suffer for a stupid thing I did.

we gave you some options but you shoot them down. If you're so anxious then sleep on the floor elsewhere in the bungalow.

You'll be fine, OP. I panic over things like that, too--I'm overcautious. If you sleep in the room with lots of blankets a the window slightly cracked open, you'll be fine. Relax, gurrl!

R16 thanks. Yeah, you’re right about panic, I definitely relate to that. Cracking the window and putting on a throw as we speak.

For me it’s a vicious cycle of ‘do dumb shit>>freak>>accidentally do more dumb shit because I’m freaking out’. Fresh hell! And I only have sociopathic Guncles to help me out of it.

Do you have bedbugs, OP?

How about a $5 air mattress from Wal-Mart and you sleep on the living room floor for a couple of nights till it's safe to sleep in your room.

start that National Parks tour you've been putting off!

OP, arrange to have one of the co-occupiers of that infested hovel call the police and coroner's office tomorrow morning.

Because you won't be there to place the call yourself.

Can I have your stuff?

You want his bed-bud infested crap?

R19 I had ants and weevils. Don’t think they’ll be back for a while....

R20 well, I’m alive this morning. My mouth is dry as hell and I’m still a little wheezy, but mostly ok apart from that. Hopefully there are no longer-lasting or delayed side effects...:/

According to the internet, putting baking soda around a room can help absorb the smell and dispel fumes. Is that true?

^^ok, put baking soda around. Just have to wait and see if it works...

My breathing is still kind of laboured, but not so much I can’t walk or talk easily. Should I call my doctor?

Take a hot steamy shower and wash yourself thoroughly. Then go outside immediately for at least 2-3 hours to allow your skin pores to close and your lung to breathe without any surrounding toxins.

Thank you R25.

After it happened yesterday and I realised my mistake, I spent the afternoon and evening washing my hair and all my clothes and bedding, while aerating the room and washing off the spirit. As noted above, I slept with the windows open—in retrospect, I wonder of this was the best idea, as now a day later I have been breathless, dizzy and low-affect with prickly and blotchy skin. But as I have no other options...:/

Today I finished the laundry, covered the carpet and skirting boards in baking soda, and left the windows open for about ten hours. I also took a bath. Asking my housemate again today, she said she can’t smell any spirit at all, but I really think I can still? I don’t know if my paranoid mind is playing tricks on me, or I just have a sensitive nose and nervous system.

How long do spirit fumes linger, and are they still harmful after 30+ hours in a ventilated space? I won’t be able to sleep not knowing...

You're having some kind of anxious spiral. Are you OCD? BiPolar?

R27 honestly, I really don’t know. Maybe? But I don’t think so, I’ve never had an obvious problem like that—or at least no-one’s ever said or pointed anything out to me.

There is depression in my past. Also I do have Asperger’s, but the only obsessive behaviour I experience with that is listmaking. Aversions and hypersensitivities are more the issue with that.

There may be some lingering scent residue but based on all you described that you have done it's in all likelihood harmless by now.

Last year I made the mistake of emptying an almost full can Lysol disinfectant spray in my basement. The can had to be 10-15 years old and I just wanted to dispose of it by disinfecting all the corners of the basement to get rid of musty smell it often has during the summer. Bad idea. I inhaled so much of it, I immediately got a big headache and felt light headed and slightly nauseous. That headache remained for about two weeks before it began to dissipate. I purchased a detox spirulena powder mix from my health food store and took it with water twice a day. I think it accelerated the detoxification of the chemicals from my system.

I asked about OCD because between the lines you have something special. I guess its the Asperger’s. From a distance you are giving the impression that you are having ruminative thoughts about the fumes and "toxicity". The fumes got into your head and they are probably lingering psychosomatically. Because it really got you super anxious. And you feel vulnerable because you don't have a lot of options and resources in our life - you felt trapped. Its only natural. Try to chill out and breathe deeply outside your room and I think the "fumes" will let go of you with some time.

If I smell that fucking Febreze it remains in my brain and/or sinuses for days after. My bf can't smell it (somebody in our condo uses it in the hallway for some inane reason) but I feel like I can smell traces of it, either in our HVAC or lingering in the carpet. Maybe you're just traumatized, OP, and it'll go away soon.

Is there a vehicle on the fucking property? Then you do have a place to sleep. Yes. Sleep in the damned car. Make sure you crack the window bring a pillow and a blanket.

I don't do well with artificial scents and it can make me feel anxious. Best thing you can do is keep the windows open and drink extra water to flush anything out of your system.