What are the hazards of paint thinner to people

Although the current real estate market does not seem to be as hot as before, housing prices are still very high for ordinary people. But for the happiness of their children, many elderly people will still help their children buy houses for their weddings no matter what the housing prices are. The first thing to do after buying a house is to decorate it, and paint, as a necessary material for decoration, has always been in hot sales. The paint you buy must be diluted, so what are the hazards of paint thinner to people?

In the past, paint thinners were more toxic. Their main ingredients included toluene and xylene. Toluene and xylene are of course toxic. If you breathe the gases emitted by these paint thinners for a long time, you may be poisoned. During construction, you must also wear work clothes, gloves, masks and other protective equipment to avoid adverse effects on your body. With the advancement of technology, paint thinners produced using new technologies no longer contain two toxic substances, toluene and xylene. Therefore, thinners using modern technology are generally less toxic or non-toxic. Non-toxic diluents will be the direction of diluent development in the future.

The harm of paint to human body: Many paints and adhesives contain benzene. This kind of organic compound can enter the human body through the respiratory tract, skin, etc., and invade the nervous system, hematopoietic system and liver organs. In the early stage of poisoning, the main symptom is a continuous decrease in white blood cells. In the middle stage, skin purpura, gingival bleeding, epistaxis, etc. may occur, and finally poor aplasia or aplastic anemia may occur.

Long-term exposure to paint can have adverse effects on the body. Most paints are highly lipophilic and can easily pass through cell membranes and accumulate in the central nervous system, so they can easily cause damage to brain cells and induce toxic encephalopathy. Chronic solvent poisoning syndrome, chronic painter's syndrome, neuropsychiatric dysfunction, etc. are the most typical representatives of "induced toxic encephalopathy".

The reason why paint is easy to induce neurological diseases is, firstly, because of its own neurotoxicity, such as toluene is very toxic, and secondly, the effect of solutes dissolved in it, such as the negative impact of heavy metal ions such as lead, cadmium, and manganese.