Last night I had to mop my restroom with bleach mixed with a much larger amount of water, as my toilet flooded (thankfully there wasn't anything IN the toilet, if you know what I mean). I took all the necessary precautions (opening all the windows, having all the fans/vents on full blast, wearing a rag over my face to avoid fumes) and mopped from 10-20 minutes. I'm worried that my slight exposure will cause adverse effects and slow me down and all that jazz. I am seriously freaking out.
Do I have brain damage, or am I just overreacting?
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Nanny Wendy
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I am sure you're fine. Bleach mixed with water is not dangerous. It's when you mix bleach with other chemicals that it becomes dangerous. 
Well, I did mix the bleach with some "All-Purpose Cleaner"
I'm a stupid 17 year old kid, so I didn't know that you're not supposed to mix. The All-Purpose Cleaner has sodium hypochlorite like bleach (and not ammonia, the dangerous reactant) as well as surfactant. I don't think it made any dangerous chlorine fumes..
I'm a stupid 17 year old kid, so I didn't know that you're not supposed to mix. The All-Purpose Cleaner has sodium hypochlorite like bleach (and not ammonia, the dangerous reactant) as well as surfactant. I don't think it made any dangerous chlorine fumes..
Mixing 2 bleach based cleaners should be fine. Breathing a little bit of chlorine fumes will not hurt you.
If you breathed really concentrated chlorine fumes, (like stuck your nose in the bottle and inhaled for a while) you might hurt your lungs somewhat. You would know if this happened because you would cough, choke, wheeze, lungs burn, etc. It's not likely to happen from using household cleansers with the fan on and windows open.
The only way an adult or teen could get brain damage from most chemicals is if you inhaled so much you started to get oxygen deprived. Again, not going to happen from using household cleansers with proper ventilation.
If you breathed really concentrated chlorine fumes, (like stuck your nose in the bottle and inhaled for a while) you might hurt your lungs somewhat. You would know if this happened because you would cough, choke, wheeze, lungs burn, etc. It's not likely to happen from using household cleansers with the fan on and windows open.
The only way an adult or teen could get brain damage from most chemicals is if you inhaled so much you started to get oxygen deprived. Again, not going to happen from using household cleansers with proper ventilation.