Warning: Sodium Nitroferricyanide Content in Urine Reagent Strips

Medical related products are one of the most common things we purchase wherein we tend to be so confident that we use them without even reading the product specification, the direction of use, and yes the most important thing; the composition. How many times have you read the labels of the product that you have purchased?
Urine Reagent Strips, are you familiar with these testing instrument? A Urine Reagent Strip is a dip-and-read strip intended for use as a diagnostic aid using urine specimens. It does contain solid phase reagent areas affixed to a plastic support. Urine Reagent Strips provide test for qualitative and semi quantitative determination of Creatinine, pH and even glucose in urine samples by the visual comparison with color charts of each concentration range. Now try to put yourself in a scenario where you have purchased the said product, use the product for medical purposes and yes you have leave this strips after use without disposing it properly. Say you have little kids at home; do you get what I mean?
Some may act like a jerk; they may act like this for they do not know what harm it may cause. Majority of commercial Urine Reagent Strips produced today contain sodium Nitroferricyanide. Then who the hell cares if it does. Well this may how idiot person will react.
What does this chemical do especially in the human body? The next phrases will discuss how fatal its effects are. “DANGER! IT MAY BE FATAL IF SWALLOWED, INHALED OR ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN. AFFECTS BLOOD, CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THYROID. CONTACT WITH ACIDS LIBERATES POISONOUS GAS. IT MAY CAUSE IRRITATION TO SKIN, EYES, AND RESPIRATORY TRACT. “That’s how serious it gets.
In the event of inhalation it may cause irritation to the respiratory tract and systemic poisoning with symptoms paralleling ingestion. What happens when you ingest it? Its effect would be similar to nitrite poisoning. Symptoms may include headache, flushing of the skin, vomiting, colic diarrhea, muscular weakness, dizziness, collapse, fall in blood pressure and a lot more than you think. No doubt why it was given a 3=severe health rating.