How would you like to participate in this study?
Researchers monitored 10 male volunteers who spent an hour in a room filled either with clean air or exhaust from a diesel engine. The exhaust-filled room was set to mimic the highest level that people might encounter in the environment or at work, for example on a busy road or in a garage.
Volunteers were connected to an electroencephalograph (EEG) to monitor the brain’s electrical signals during exposure and for the hour afterwards.
Within 30 minutes, the participants in the exhaust room showed signs of stress on the EEG, indicating a change in the way the brain processes information.
I’ll pass thanks. It is common sense that these types of fumes are not good for you. Your own body tells you that when you breath them.
Source: Diesel Fumes and Benzene
Tags: Diesel, Diesel Benzene, Information-News
My biggest fear is permanent brain damage due to breathing exhaust of any type. It is so ubiquitous, however, that there is no way to get away from it day after day. I go to great lengths to try and avoid it. I’ll hold my breath while crossing the street, run my car in the winter without hot air flow, tape up the windows, put towels under the door. Yes, I’m paranoid. My mother loves to warm up our diesel truck in the winter time with the door open that connects the house to the garage. It doesn’t take long for the diesel fume odor to become very strong in the house. Unfortunately for me, I’m the only one who claims to be able to smell it. It’s amazing to me what people are willing to tolerate, either out of ignorance of the detrimental effects or perhaps a dysfunctional olfactory system. I’m inclined to believe it’s the former. We can’t sense CO, but we can smell things that come along with it.
Am I the only person with a phobia of exhaust?
I just wish I could breath easy at work and at home. A great burden would be lifted, from everyone, if we could somehow solve the exhaust problem.