{"id":1090,"date":"2024-04-22T18:35:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gazlacrymo.fr\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2024-04-22T18:35:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:35:33","slug":"acute-tear-gas-health-hazards-pointed-by-a-french-health-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandersreng.duckdns.org\/lacrymo\/2024\/04\/22\/acute-tear-gas-health-hazards-pointed-by-a-french-health-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute tear gas health hazards pointed by a French health report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The French society of toxicology just published a report about \u201ctear gas usage and its short and long term toxic effects\u201d. L\u2019Obs exclusively released this document.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\nEmmanuelle Anizon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published\nJune 27th<\/sup> 2020 at 9 a.m., update 9:45 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A man throws a tear gas grenade back, in Bordeaux, December 5 2019. (NICOLAS TUCAT \/ AFP) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

French society of toxicology-chemistry, Paris, published a report <\/a>about \u201ctear gas usage and its short and long term toxic effects\u201d. 126 pages, over a year of hard work by Alexander Samuel. L\u2019Obs was already the first magazine to publish a portrait of this maths high school teacher, PhD in molecular biology, and disheveled haired itching powder who accidentally leaded a healthcare team in doing blood and urine analysis on Yellow Vests Movement protestors in France, to detect presence of Cyanide in tear gas, and its consequence on public health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTear gas harmfulness has already been largely questioned\nworldwide, but such a review had never been written, says Andr\u00e9 Picot, head of\nthe Society Of Toxicology-Chemistry. Most of the studies are not publicly available\nbecause they are limited to the military domain. This work is of public interest\u201d.\nBurning hot news, while protesters are drowning in tear gas clouds every day\naround the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does this review<\/a> say? Outside of technical biological analysis, which we will not comment out of complexity, this review describes tear gas effects and highlights the importance of cyanide in producing those effects. Each CS tear gas molecule that is absorbed will release two cyanide molecules. Absorption is not only respiratory, but can also be cutaneous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This review describes the mechanism of cyanide\npoisoning (blocking the respiratory chain and causing an oxidative stress), and\ndetails what happens to the human body even at low dose intoxication. This\nmolecule mainly affects brains, livers and kidneys. Eyes would also be\naffected (cataract\u2026). It has\nan effect on central nervous system (headache, anwiety, dizziness, confusion,\nloss of consciousness, paralysis and even coma), on the respiratory tract (hyperventilation,\ntachypnea, dyspnea or apnea in extreme cases), on the cardiovascular system (hypotension,\npalpitations, arrythmia, tachycardia\u2026), and even causing damage to thyroid,\ngastro-intestinal system (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea), musculo-skeletal system\n(muscular rigidity), liver\u2026 In New Jersey, the Department of Health calls protesters\nwho are exposed to check up their livers and kidneys. \u201cWhy is nothing done in\nFrance? Asks Alexander Samuel. For political reasons, the scientific\naspect is not explored.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deaths\u00a0?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his review, Alexander Samuel reminds events\nin which CS could have caused death, directly or indirectly. \u201cA link is often\nestablished by families and friends between tear gas exposure and death, but\nthere are often discussions and there is rarely clear evidence. Recently in the\nUnited States, a young woman died from a pulmonary issue just after a demonstration\nwith strong tear gas exposure. It was first said it might be due to tear gas, then\ndiscussed\u2026 We will probably never know. In France, Steve Ma\u00efa Cani\u00e7o, a young\nman from Nantes drowned in June 2019 after falling in the Loire river during\nthe music fest in June 2019. This happened just after a police charge with at\nleast 33 tear gas grenades in les than half an hour. Enough to disorient\nsomeone\u2026 And yet, I regret no forensic analysis <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Samuel hopes his work will trigger\nmore awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat I have written interrogates. I would like\nother people to start working on answering those questions I raise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He still goes on interacting with scientists, sociologists, and Non-Governmental Organizations (like Amnesty International, who just launched a website<\/a> dedicated to tear gas). He already teaches dangers of using tear gas through web conferences to police officers\u2026 from Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmanuelle Anizon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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