Some concerns raised on another site:
To which I replied with facts from the said article, which I'd also found while researching the chemical, though it took some digging, because there was only ever one case and it wasn't quite as she described it.
In short... Definitely wear gloves while preparing this if you choose to do so. And be extremely careful not to use too much at once or use it too often.
I may have inadvertently made it seem like DMSO was "COMPLETELY SAFE!", when the reality is that it can be extremely dangerous if used improperly.
By all rights if this works, it should be a controlled entity requiring prescription, but the US government, at least, chooses not to control DMSO or clove oil, which can also be dangerous in its own ways.
EDIT: Also, if you do try it, try it somewhere easily concealed first, just to be sure if it does burn or anything that the damage isn't visible... I don't think it would. But I can't help but wonder with the one person actually being in a trade that would certainly make use of it as a solvent. Granted, their experience will be of it at full industrial strength. The 99% product I'm starting with. Which makes me wonder why the 99% product would be being sold as a vet topical...
EDIT2: I will be updating this thread with my results when I have had a chance to prepare it and try it myself.
EDIT3: And yes, I have no problems with using myself as my own guinea pig. This should be obvious by now...
Quote:Dimethylsulfoxide isn't some inert body cream to play with. One effect I have noticed, from personal use, is greatly increased blood flow to the area it is used. Also heavy use can burn the skin. This isn't something to experiment with unless you have a lab full of guinea pigs and methods to apply it to them without getting it on your own skin before you have tested it THOROUGHLY.
Quote:there was an article that I remember having read a few years ago and the incident had also been on a medical mystery show about dmso. If used in a certain quantity it can react with some people to form a deadly nerve gas within their bodies. They woman who had entered the ER for chronic pain and problems succumbed to that and when they pierced her with a needle for a blood draw, the gas emitted from the puncture and several of the emergency room crew died and many others hospitalized later for nerve gas exposure.
To which I replied with facts from the said article, which I'd also found while researching the chemical, though it took some digging, because there was only ever one case and it wasn't quite as she described it.
Quote:And she was using it in crazy high amounts. The problem wasn't the DMSO itself, but a chain of events that led to the DMSO eventually becoming dimethyl sulfate.
When she used way too much DMSO it caused her system to go into arrest, and when they put an oxygen mask on her the DMSO was completely converted to dimethyl sulfone, with 2 oxygen atoms on it instead of one. This chemical, though generally inert, was unstable and broke down in her system. The scientists who claimed that the gas produced was dimethyl sulfate then hypothesize that it reformed into dimethyl sulfate when her blood left her body and started to cool down, allowing the chemical enough stability to form in quantity.
In short... Definitely wear gloves while preparing this if you choose to do so. And be extremely careful not to use too much at once or use it too often.
I may have inadvertently made it seem like DMSO was "COMPLETELY SAFE!", when the reality is that it can be extremely dangerous if used improperly.
By all rights if this works, it should be a controlled entity requiring prescription, but the US government, at least, chooses not to control DMSO or clove oil, which can also be dangerous in its own ways.
EDIT: Also, if you do try it, try it somewhere easily concealed first, just to be sure if it does burn or anything that the damage isn't visible... I don't think it would. But I can't help but wonder with the one person actually being in a trade that would certainly make use of it as a solvent. Granted, their experience will be of it at full industrial strength. The 99% product I'm starting with. Which makes me wonder why the 99% product would be being sold as a vet topical...
EDIT2: I will be updating this thread with my results when I have had a chance to prepare it and try it myself.
EDIT3: And yes, I have no problems with using myself as my own guinea pig. This should be obvious by now...