Is pesticide dangerous?!
Question: I live in an apartment and the guy came in to fumigate. As he was walking back from the bathroom his fire-extinguisher-like tool was spraying everywhere it got onto my skin, the walls, and the floor. He said don't worry it's just diluted pesticide and it's harmless. What should I do???? This happened about 3-4 hours ago.
Answers: I live in an apartment and the guy came in to fumigate. As he was walking back from the bathroom his fire-extinguisher-like tool was spraying everywhere it got onto my skin, the walls, and the floor. He said don't worry it's just diluted pesticide and it's harmless. What should I do???? This happened about 3-4 hours ago.
It depends on what pesticide it was! I'd wash it off, find out what pesticide it was, and then call poison control. I went to a talk when I first started my job where a doctor was talking about people (especially children) being poisoned by pesticides, and by pesticide applicators that were not licensed (which there's a chance he was not). You'll have an easier time if it was an herbicide than an insecticide as insecticides work on an enzyme that is found in humans too! It's poison for a reason!!
Here's a good link too!
http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/dept/factsht...
Just have a shower, open your windows and go out for a few beers and read the paper... not much else you can do about it now... Its probably not overly dangerous...