11 Sep 2020, 12:23 pm
jimmy m wrote:
Mountain Goat, it seems like you are hypersensitive to smell and it might be a trigger for you. I have a sensitivity to smell. Often times when I enter a clothing store, I would get a headache because the new clothes are treated with a variety of chemicals and these chemicals have an almost immediate affect on me. But sometimes this hypersensitivity has a positive attribute. My nose is almost like a blood hounds. I can detect and follow scents.
That brings up an interesting thought or experiment. I wonder if smelling salts might help in a situation where you have a panic attack caused by your over sensitivity to smell.
Smelling salts, also known as ammonia inhalants, spirit of hartshorn or sal volatile, are chemical compounds often used to arouse consciousness.
Smelling salts have been used since Roman times and are mentioned in the writings of Pliny as Hammoniacus sal. Evidence exists of use in the 13th century by alchemists as sal ammoniac. In the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales, a character purports to use sal armonyak. In the 17th century, the distillation of an ammonia solution from shavings of harts' (deer) horns and hooves led to the alternative name for smelling salts as spirit or salt of hartshorn.
They were widely used in Victorian Britain to revive fainting women, and in some areas constables would carry a container of them for the purpose. During this time, smelling salts were commonly dissolved with perfume in vinegar or alcohol and soaked onto a sponge, which was then carried on the person in a decorative container called a vinaigrette.
The use of smelling salts was widely recommended during the Second World War, with all workplaces advised by the British Red Cross and St. John Ambulance to keep smelling salts in their first aid boxes.
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Anyways this is just a thought. I might actually cause you more distress than less. But you won't know unless you try it. If you do, let me know of the results.
That brings up an interesting thought or experiment. I wonder if smelling salts might help in a situation where you have a panic attack caused by your over sensitivity to smell.
Smelling salts, also known as ammonia inhalants, spirit of hartshorn or sal volatile, are chemical compounds often used to arouse consciousness.
Smelling salts have been used since Roman times and are mentioned in the writings of Pliny as Hammoniacus sal. Evidence exists of use in the 13th century by alchemists as sal ammoniac. In the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales, a character purports to use sal armonyak. In the 17th century, the distillation of an ammonia solution from shavings of harts' (deer) horns and hooves led to the alternative name for smelling salts as spirit or salt of hartshorn.
They were widely used in Victorian Britain to revive fainting women, and in some areas constables would carry a container of them for the purpose. During this time, smelling salts were commonly dissolved with perfume in vinegar or alcohol and soaked onto a sponge, which was then carried on the person in a decorative container called a vinaigrette.
The use of smelling salts was widely recommended during the Second World War, with all workplaces advised by the British Red Cross and St. John Ambulance to keep smelling salts in their first aid boxes.
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Anyways this is just a thought. I might actually cause you more distress than less. But you won't know unless you try it. If you do, let me know of the results.
I have never tried it for that reason. Yes I have tried smelling salts, but never tried when in a partial shutdown due to a smell trigger. Probably because it is only after examining myself and asking questions and reading others posts that I realized how much certain smells effect me. I had assumed before it was some sort of allergic reaction (A doctor once told me that the shutdowns (I did not know what they were) were "Some sort of allergy" but then gave me no help whatsoever to try to find out what that allergy might be!)
11 Sep 2020, 2:23 pm
