Cyanide

Cyanide Poisoning Overview
Cyanide is a rare but potentially deadly poison. It works by making your body unable to use oxygen, without which life cannot be sustained.
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CYANIDE POISONING - A fairly common disease of herbivorous animals, but uncommon in man. Cyanogenic compounds are very toxic to humans either by inhalation or ingestion.
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Poisoning, cyanide: See: Cyanide.
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Hydrogen cyanide
Visible smoke accounts for only 5-8 percent of the output of a burning cigarette. The rest is made of invisible gases - including hydrogen cyanide.7 This poisonous gas reduces the body's ability to transport oxygen.
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Cyanidem, found in tobacco smoke, interferes with thyroid hormone production. Smoking triples the risk for developing thyroid disease, particularly autoimmune hyper- and hypothyroidism.
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The classic example is cyanide poisoning, where the chemical inactivates a cellular enzyme necessary for the cell to use oxygen. Thus, tissue exposed to cyanide cannot use the oxygen even though it is in normal amounts in the bloodstream.
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Most intentional poisons (cyanide, nerve gas) that enter through the lungs pass through and damage other parts of the body. Mustard gas, used during World War I and banned since, directly and immediately destroys lungs.
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A substance that is used in medicine as an antidote to cyanide poisoning and to decrease side effects of the anticancer drug cisplatin.
soft diet
A diet consisting of bland foods that are softened by cooking, mashing, pureeing, or blending.
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Carbon monoxide, carbon tetrachloride, chlorine, creosote, cyanides, dinitrobenzene, mercury, lead, phosphorus, and nitrous chloride are but a few of the substances that on entering through the skin, respiratory tract, ...
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Lack of oxygen (such as in suffocation or cyanotic heart disease), abnormal hemoglobin (such as methemoglobinemia) and toxins (such as cyanide) can all produce cyanosis.
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These are some of the blessings you get from the nicotine: lead, carcinogens, cadmium, hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and over 5,000 other irritating chemicals in tobacco.
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Ammonia - irritates your lungs
Carbon monoxide - hampers breathing by reducing oxygen in your blood
Methanol - toxic when inhaled or swallowed
Hydrogen cyanide - interferes with proper respiratory function ...
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Sodium Salicylate (Gin Pain Pills; Dodd's Extra Strength; Dodd's Pills)
Sodium Sulamyd (Sulfacetamide)
Sodium Thiosulfate
(Systemic)
(Cyanide Antidote Package)
sodium tyropanoate
Soflax (Docusate)
Soframycin Ophthalmic (Framycetin ) ...
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When tobacco smoke is inhaled, nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream. Immediate physiological effects include increased heart rate and a rise in blood pressure.
Cyanide - used in the gas chambers.
Formaldehyde - used to preserve dead bodies.
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