Symptoms from gas attacks:
Immediately upon skin contact:
Skin, eyes, nose, throat, mouth being:
Stinging, burning pain, itching = all can last for 24 hours
Eyes
Pupils constrict
Burn
Begin watering from irritation
Nose
Starts running
Chest
Tightness in chest
A few minutes after exposure:
Skin
A red rash begins to spread around the skin
Eyes
Excessive tearing (tears)
Eyes continue to hurt
Eyes may swell shut
Blindness occurs (non-permanent usually, effect of mustard gas.)
Throat
Irritated
Coughing
Burns
Heavy secretions and salivation
Chest
Tightness
Burning
Hard to breathe
Wheezing
Body
Vomiting
Muscle spasms
Sweating
Cramping
Weakness
2-3 hours after exposure:
Seizures
Unconsciousness
Breathing problems continue
Depending on proximity= chemical burns of varying degree to the nose, throat, and lungs
Low grade fever starts
Easily bruising and bleeding
Blindness
Skin
Red rash begins to turn into small blisters
The person is now both infected and contagious
3-12 hours after exposure:
Victim is highly contagious via body fluid, especially saliva
Blisters turn into large, painful, fluid filled blisters that will last 2-3 days
Confusion
Irritation
Mental deterioration
Breathing problems continue
Fever gets higher
Cranial swelling (brain swelling)
Blood clots
Easily bruising and bleeding
blindness
Divergences begin to happen based on if the patient will turn or survive, there is no in between state.
12 - 18 Hours
Turning
Chest pain, shortness of breath continues
Problems moving parts of the body
Leg pain
Brain swelling
Fever increasing to dangerous levels
Sweating
Dehydration
Easily bruising and bleeding
Possible blood clots being to form
Blindness continues
Breathing remains constricted
Survive
Chest pain, shortness of breath continues
Problems moving parts of the body
Leg pain
Brain swelling
Fever increasing
Sweating
Dehydration
Easily bruising and bleeding
Possible blood clots being to form
Blindness continues
Breathing remains constricted
18-21 Hours
Turning
High fever
Confusion
Unable to move body
Fatigue
Dehydration
Brain swelling
Rapid deterioration of physical coordination, loses all hand eye coordination
Extreme irritability
Blindness continues
Rapid mental deterioration
Confusion
Breathing remains constricted
Survive
Fever is on the higher end, but not dangerous levels
Confusion
Unable to move body
Fatigue
Dehydration
Brain swelling
Rapid deterioration of physical coordination, hand eye coordination very low
Extreme irritability
Blindness continues
Mental deterioration
Confusion
Breathing remains constricted
21 – 24 hours
Turning
Falls into coma, cannot be woken up, no response to any stimulation
Fever reaches borderline of deadly
Potential bleeding from eyes, ears, nose, mouth
Potential seizures
Nerve death
Breathing remains constricted
Surviving
Falls into coma, cannot be woken up, no response to any stimulation
Fever reaches peak height, then begins to break
Potential seizures
Potential hypothermia as temperature falls (covered in sweat)
Breathing begins to ease
24 hours
Turn: within an hour
Remains in coma
Fever breaks
Body cools to normal temperature
Fluids and electrolytes stabilize
Vision returns/damaged
Hemorrhages stop
Patient wakes up
Goes into complete raged state and will attack anything it perceives as prey
28 -36 hours
Survive:
Remains in coma
Fever breaks
Body cools to normal temperature
Possibility of hypothermia if not being cared for
Fluids and electrolytes begin to stabilize
Hemorrhages stop
36-52 hours
Patient awakes from coma
Vision returns (without damage)
Patient slowly regains ability to move body
Extreme fatigue
Soreness
Slowly regains hand eye coordination
Slowly regains mental comprehension
Patient will make full recovery if
Kept clean, dry, and warm (has to be changed and washed every few hours)
Given lots of fluids and electrolytes
Given lots of nutrition
Follow care procedures
Long Term Effects: Survival does not mean it’s all over
Possibility of being a carrier of the virus, not immune
Low chance of being immune
All possibilities of permanent long-term damage (especially if not cared for)
Vision damage
Nerve damage
Damage/scarring of inner nose, mouth, throat, lungs (permanent breathing problems)
Skin scarring from blisters
Compromised immune system
Severe vitamin deficiencies
Chronic pain
Out of breath easily
Muscle tremors and spasms
Brain damage
Organ damage
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