This is the notice I posted on March 8, 2015 in the common hallway inside my apartment in an effort to dissuade the excluded occupant from bringing any more products containing eucalyptus, oil of eucalyptus, and/or eucalyptol into my home.
Here is the text:
DO NOT REMOVE THIS NOTICE
- NOTICE -
YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY CEASE AND DESIST FROM
USING ANY PRODUCT CONTAINING EUCALYPTOL, OIL OF
EUCALYPTUL AND/OR EUCALYPTUS WHILE YOU ARE
LIVING IN MY APARTMENT. EUCALYPTOL IS A NEUROTOXIN
WHICH, EVEN AT LOW DOSES/EXPOSURE, CAN CAUSE
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION IN ALLERGIC/
CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE AND AT HIGHER DOSES
IN ALL PEOPLE. IN "CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY OF COMMERCIAL
PRODUCTS," 4TH EDITION, PUBLISHED IN BALTIMORE BY WILLIAMS, 1976, p 11-168 (* PEER REVIEWED *), AUTHORS R.E. GOSSELIN, H.C. HODGE, R.P. SMITH AND MN. GLEASON STATE THAT THE SEVERE TOXICITY OF EUCALYPTOL INVOLVES:
"CNS DEPRESSION [THAT] HAS A RAPID ONSET AND MANY CASES DEVELOP COMA WITHIN 30 MINUTES ALTHOUGH ONSET MAY BE DELAYED FOR UP TO 4 HOURS. CNS [CENTRAL NEROUS SYSTEM] DEPRESSION CAN BE PROLONGED UP TO 3 DAYS. DYSPNEA, TACHYCARDIA, BRONCHOSPASM, ACUTE LUNG INJURY, CYANOSIS, ATAXIA, MIOSIS, DELERIUM, HYPOTENSION, AND SEIZURES MAY OCCUR. ASPIRATION MAY RESULT IN SYMPTOMS OF CHEMICAL PNEUMONITIS. DEATHS HAVE BEEN REPORTED."
DYSPNEA: DIFFICULT OR LABORED BREATHING
TACHYCARDIA: RELATIVELY RAPID HEART ACTION
BRONCHOSPASM: CONSTRICTION OF THE AIR PASSAGES OF THE LUNG (AS IN ASTHMA) BY SPASMODIC CONTRACTION OF THE BRONCHIAL MUSCLES
THE TERM ACUTE LUNG INJURY HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE TERM ACUTE DIFFUSE INFLAMMATORY LUNG INJURY (ARDS): INJURY LEADING TO INCREASED PULMONARY VASCULAR PERMEABILIY, INCREASED LUNG WEIGHT, AND LOSS OF AERATED LUNG TISSUE...[WITH] HYPOXEMIA AND BILAERAL RADIOGRAPHICS OPACITIES, ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED VENOUS ADMIXTURE, INCREASED PHYSIOLOGICAL DEAD SPACE, AND DECREASED LUNG COMPLIANCE." (THERE IS A 27% MORTALITY RATE EVEN FOR "MILD" ARDS.)
CYANOSIS: A BLUISH COLOR OF THE SKIN AND THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES, DUE TO INSUFFICIENT OXYGEN IN THE BLOOD.
ATAXIA: AN INABILITY TO COORDINATE VOLUNTARY MUSCULAR MOVEMENTS THAT IS SYMPTOMATIC OF SOME CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURIES AND NOT DUE TO MUSCLE WEAKNESS.
MIOSIS: EXCESSIVE CONSTRICTION OF THE PUPIL OF THE EYE, AS A RESULT OF DRUGS, ETC.
HYPOTENSION: ABNORMALLY LOW BLOOD PRESSURE, WHICH CAN CAUSE DIZZINESS.
SEIZURE: A SUDDEN ATTACK (AS OF A DISEASE); ESPECIALLY: THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS (AS CONVULSIONS, SENSORY DISTURBANCES, OR LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS).
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