2006-11-06 04:54:38 · 3 answers · asked by Valerie 6 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
Back when my heart was a bit blacker we had "smelling salts" in the first aid cabinet at a place I used to work. It was a liquid chemical in a small glass tube wrapped in fiber. Whenever they hired someone new I would grab one and start sniffing it (unbroken) and then ask the new guy if it smelled funny and crush the vial as I handed it to them. Explosive reaction everytime! Mean but funny.
2006-11-06 11:52:26 · answer #1 · answered by Beware the fury of a patient man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't really know why EMT's don't readily use smelling salts - a respiratory stimulant. My questioning about such has responses of :: people with asthma fear the smell of ammonia activating an attack, interaction with chemicals people be sniffing now a days - like cocaine & snuff... etc. The use generating law suits .
People think i'm a witch doctor to suggest it for faintness and sinus infection where the ammonia kills the virus / bacterial infection in the nose.
2016-05-23 02:46:28 · answer #2 · answered by William 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AKA: ammonium carbonate is hard to find these days.
But here's a UK company that sells em.
2006-11-06 07:08:44 · answer #3 · answered by Solunas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋