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From: <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 05:43:55 -0500
To: Einar Hagen <einar.hagen@un*.co*>
CC: techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Asthma and high p.p.o2
You will, and it will not be pretty. Seen it, and you don't want to go
there. Look, don't ask questions that you do not want to hear the answer
to and then argue with me about the answer. I know what I am talking
about, and you do not. 

Anyone who has asthma and attemtps a big oxygen exposure will experience
a rude awakening. Fact.

Einar Hagen wrote:
> 
> I do not use any shortterm meds while diving , and have no probs
> with diving in general, and no incidents of any kind on o2 exposures to
> date.
> 
> I suppose i will just have to continue to go slow and carefully....
> 
> Einar
> 
> > Einar - if your medication wears off while doing deco, you can expect to
> > not be able to breath very well, if indeed you can stop caughing. If
> > that happens, go to back gas and get your meds. Oxygen or high ppo2
> > gasses in doses more than 18 minutes long will cause swelling of your
> > lung tissue, and that is virtually the same as asthma. So in your case,
> > you give asthma to your asthma with the oxygen.

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