Health - Computer Duster Huffing

[Vertical Label]

so what forum does duster fit under? can you OD from it? can you pas out from it? SWIM never really experimented with it much and wants information.
thanks
-Vert

[zera]

Computer dusters contain volatile solvents that are often neurotoxic and heptatoxic (kills brain cells and liver cells). It's a shitty shitty high, that lasts a very short period, and inhalant use is far more likely to result in death either from asphyxiation or sudden sniffing death (severe neurological shock resulting in cardiac arryhythmia). 22% of deaths are first-time users.1 "Actual overdose from the drug does occur, however, and indeed inhaled solvent abuse is statistically more likely to result in life-threatening respiratory depression than intravenous use of opiates such as heroin."2

If swiy wants a drug that will be like inhalants, but exponentially more fun and safe swim suggests you check out nitrous oxide. It's commonly sold in headshops as "whipped-cream chargers" and swiy'll need a cracker (quite cheap) and a balloon. Don't go with duster, swiy will enjoy this much more and swiy can't die or won't suffer any negative health effects unless he chronically uses.

1. http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/dustoff.asp
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalan...nism_of_action

[Pinkavvy]

Don't huff duster; it's very dangrous.

If swiy wants a gas that is actually enjoyable and also safe look into N20 (food or medical grade only, swiy don't want the car grade full of toxins and hectane that will kill you.)

[Vertical Label]

Thank you both. SWIM gave it a try and was very displeased. He reports that the duration of the high is incredibly short-lived and the feeling derived is nothing special. SWIM also reports that he has no intentions to do it again though he does plan on researching nitrous oxide.
-Vert

[genaro]

one single first use of duster can kill you, I heard of people dying from a single toke, one single baloon filled with duster beeing known as a lethal dose.
That means one have to use very little at a time!
Also, repeated use does great harm to your brain: I read about one guy which ended up dissolving his brain barrier with repeated duster use, resulting in life-long lobotomy-like condition.

From personal experience:
duster has a shitty effect (also very short lived), it causes brain suffocation, and when you take some, that's precisely how it feels to you, meaning it really has a dark and dirty mental suffocation feeling....beuark!
It's not a pleasant feeling at all so I wouldn't call this a 'high'.
I would advise you not to ever try this stuff (not fun and much too dangerous).

[IkBenDeMan]

Duster contains O3. This has a higher affinity to your blood cells than does regular oxygen. Thus, the high is caused from oxygen deprivation and you're experiencing the same effects one would, oh, say, right before dying from drowning. Sound fun? Unfortunately, it is. But stay away from it.

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well said! best explination yet. st8 to the point.

[Isochrist]

[QUOTE=IkBenDeMan;244010]Duster contains O3. QUOTE]

SWIM was pretty sure that it was halogenated hydrocarbons like difluoroethane that were responsible for the high. Maybe SWIY are thinking of air purifiers, which sometimes use O3. *shrug*

[Overdoze]

VERY FUN Swim knows. Thats for when someone is a young ignorant teen though.

[IkBenDeMan]

Well, the dust-off things my dad used to have when I was younger said they contained O3 right on the bottle... My Biology book from my freshman year of college talked about how O3 had a higher affinity for hemoglobin... I just put two and two together... and it makes sense because I have almost drowned and its quite a similar feeling, minus the adrenaline of course. I'm certain that the halogenated hydrocarbons could have an effect...

[seechao]

I've only ever seen freon-somenumber or other hydrocarbons in dusters here in Canada, maybe it's different where you're at, the contents changed, or, maybe you misread the bottle as a kid and the bottle had some kind of "ozone safe" logo that incorporated "O3" into the logo or something... Wish I could still find o3 air freshener tho, haven't seen any in years, that stuff was amazing... I remember smoking in a car almost small enough to be called a go cart, with three other smokers, and spraying o3 every few minutes would keep the air fresh as outside... magic stuff that...
But not found in duster, here anyways.