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What happens when you inhale household cleaners?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Variable: depending on what the cleaner is, the amount of ventilation and what it is mixed with.

Dr Minich and another doctor agreed

Answered 1/15/2019

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