Those who may have been in contact with the gas for more than 15 minutes are advised to assess themselves and seek medical help if they have symptoms.
Jamie Donnelly The Pima County Health Department is working with the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center to help those who were exposed to nitric acid following yesterday’s crash.
According to a news release from the health department, concentrated nitric acid, also called fuming red nitric acid, releases nitrogen dioxide. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Symptoms include respiratory difficulties, wheezing, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing and exacerbations of COPD and asthma.The health department said those who lived within a mile of the exposure and sheltered in place but were using air exchange that pulled in outside air may have met this threshold.For more information on what to do if you were exposed, visit the health department’s website.
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