PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENTS AND ANTIDOTES AGAINST NITROGLYCOL POISONING

Abstract

From 1961 on workers in the washing, kneading, or press-extending rooms are wearing air-spouting masks, rubber gloves, and rubber aprons, and both of the latter are being worn also by those working in the room for mixing-gelatinizing. Workers in the wrapping room are using protective cream and nylon gloves, while in the packing room workers are wearing air-spouting masks and gloves, arm covers, aprons and boots all made of rubber. As preventive medicaments, calcium pantothenate, methionine, thiamine, and ascorbic acid being used. According to Tamai's experiment on mice, calcium pantothenate was found most effective, and methionine came to the next, compared with the effect of thioctic acid or thiamine, as regards change of the body weight and pathologic findings in the heart and the liver.