How Tear Gas Affects Your Body

How Tear Gas Affects Your Body

  DNews

Published on 20 Aug 2014

The use of tear gas on crowds by police in Ferguson, Missouri has made recent headlines. SourceFed’s Reina Scully explains what tear gas does to your body and how treatment works after tear gas exposure.

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“Tear gas is used both by the police for crowd control, and by individuals for self defense.”

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“Police have made heavy use of tear gas to break up the ongoing protests in Ferguson, Missouri.”

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“Tear gas -- the common name used for any of a number of chemicals, including chloroacetophenone (CN), chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile (CS) and dibenzoxazepine (CR) -- is used as a riot control agent, according to the New York City Department of Health’s website.”

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“Trailing white fumes, a silver canister arches over the no-man's-land between the armored riot police and the bulk of your fellow protesters.”

Short-term and long-term physical effects of exposure to CS spray
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“CS gas (2-chlorobenzylidene malonitrile) is widely used in an incapacitant spray that causes intense lacrimation, blepharospasm and burning sensations in the throat and nose.

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