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Can Inhaling Toxic Fumes Cause Any Problem To Heart Functioning?
I was caught inside a shed burning with toxic cancerous foam and when I walked out side my heart cramped up severly and felt like it was going to explode with a disabling sharp pain and along with that my chest arms shoulder and expecialy my face neck and head had extreme numbness and pins and needles and also I was breathing but I was not getting oxygen and my face felt like I was holding my breath but I wasnt I fell to the ground with shock and almost passed out from the pain and lack of oxygen please help what happened to my heart is it ok and could i have slight heart muscle damaged
Fri, 5 May 2017
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Inhaling toxic fumes can immediately cause lung issues which can lead to symptoms of breathlessness, fast breathing, lack of oxygen leading to blue colored face and neck and loss of consciousness. The symptoms which you have seem to be due to effect of some toxic gas probably carbon monoxide.
Toxic fumes wont affect the heart so immediately giving rise to pain. So i think that your heart is not affected, but the lungs were affected during the episode. Lungs can remove toxins very effectively hence you need not worry about them retaining the toxins.
Wishing you good health.
Regards
thanks for posting at HCM.
Inhaling toxic fumes can immediately cause lung issues which can lead to symptoms of breathlessness, fast breathing, lack of oxygen leading to blue colored face and neck and loss of consciousness. The symptoms which you have seem to be due to effect of some toxic gas probably carbon monoxide.
Toxic fumes wont affect the heart so immediately giving rise to pain. So i think that your heart is not affected, but the lungs were affected during the episode. Lungs can remove toxins very effectively hence you need not worry about them retaining the toxins.
Wishing you good health.
Regards
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