Paramedics examined a handful of people, including a year-old woman who was three-months pregnant, Seattle fire department spokesman Kyle Moore said. The Seattle Times reported on its website that the woman was taken by ambulance to Harborview Medical Center. Seattle police said plenty of verbal warnings were given to demonstrators attempting to block intersections and streets during rush hour. Kappel also noted that one man threw an "unknown liquid" at an officer's face and was arrested.
The officer was not injured. Then rinse off any contaminated body parts including your eyes with as much water as humanly possible. You may also use milk, or clean yourself with water and baby shampoo. If you have contact lenses, remove them before rinsing out your eyes, but clean your hands first. If you are alone and are unable to remain calm enough to remove yourself from the situation and decontaminate, call for help.
Call an ambulance, a loved one who lives nearby, or ask a bystander to assist. Tear gas has no antidote. The management of tear gas exposure in the hospital setting is to decontaminate the patient with saline or plain water and provide topical painkillers. Any complications that arise, such as chemical burns , are managed on a case by case basis. Be sure to inform the doctor attending to you that you are expectant.
Oftentimes, a bedside ultrasound and regular follow-up is the only additional management that will be required. Tear gas exposure is uncommon, and most people go about their whole lives only seeing and hearing about it on the news.
But with the ongoing protests in major cities of the world, this may change. Whether you have chosen to participate in the protests or are accidentally caught between the crossfire of law enforcement officers and protesters while going about your business, knowing how to act will prevent unnecessary panic. This is especially true for pregnant women. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Complications are uncommon, but serious exposure can lead to more severe injuries to the eyes, skin, and respiratory tract. The Police Policy Studies Council recommend that you bring an exposed person to the hospital if their symptoms persist for longer than 45 minutes or the person requests it. The group recommend calling emergency services if someone shows signs of distress after exposure to pepper spray, such as:. Death is rare, but several reports have implicated pepper spray in fatal outcomes in people with asthma.
There is no immediate cure for pepper spray exposure, but people can often reduce the duration and intensity of the symptoms by:.
Popular strategies for removing pepper spray include baby shampoo, milk, antacids, and lidocaine. However, a study comparing these strategies found no evidence that they were more effective than water. A randomized controlled trial from also reported no difference between baby shampoo and water alone in relieving the effects of tear gas and pepper spray.
Emergency responders may use wipes and saline solutions to help relieve symptoms of pepper spray exposure. A saline solution called diphoterine is an effective emergency treatment for various chemicals in contact with the eyes or skin, though research has not shown it to remove pepper spray effectively.
In most cases, pepper spray symptoms resolve within 10—30 minutes and do not require medical care. Since the early s , law enforcement agents in the U. This allows police to subdue and arrest people, disperse protestors, and suppress demonstrations. Police use of pepper spray remains controversial. In addition, a study by Harvard University researchers found that police in the U. This is just one of the serious concerns about systemic racism and racial discrimination within law enforcement.
Research has looked into the relative benefits and risks of using pepper spray for crowd control. A review looked at the health effects of using chemical irritants in this context in 31 studies across 11 countries. While death is rare, reports have linked several deaths with the use of pepper spray. I offered her a ride to and from the hospital, but she again refused.
I explained to Fox that, lacking any evidence of her claim, her story was increasingly subject to scrutiny. While sources in general should be given the benefit of the doubt—even if they are homeless women—and there is no evidence that Fox isn't being entirety forthright, her story looks increasingly dubious.
It's worth pointing out that in the Seattlepi. According to a police report in which the names have been redacted, a suspect who appears to have a three-letter last name "said she is three months pregnant We are attempting to contact Fox to ask if she is the woman in the police report.
SPD has now provided a statement, saying that no complaint has been filed in the original incident. Seattle police sergeant Sean Whitcomb says: "We are aware of a claim that a pregnant woman who attended the November 15 Occupy Seattle march has been treated for miscarriage. We are also aware that she has attributed the miscarriage to the use of pepper spray and physical contact by Seattle police officers.
No formal complaint has been made. Consistent with standard procedure, the Office of Professional Accountability, or OPA, has initiated an internal investigation to look into the matter further. The OPA investigators will be actively searching for any information that will support this claim.
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