What are the Effects and When Do They Occur
During the first Battle of Ypres, the French did not have a primary source of information for neither of these gases, meaning having people who knew or recognized this gas, but, they did see a sign of the chlorine gas. Only recognizing it for being a gas; but, not identifying what kind of gas it was specifically. They, the soldiers, who were soon to be the victims of the gas, had noticed a green-yellowish cloud coming towards them. When the gas had hit them; they had seen and felt the effects right away due to chlorine gas stopping them from breathing in oxygen which results in making you choke and suffocate to death. For phosgene gas, the soldiers did not see the gas, but if they had been hit or inhaled this gas, they would definitely feel the effects within 48 hours after inhaling it due to it bedding itself within the respiratory system.
During the first Battle of Ypres, the French did not have a primary source of information for neither of these gases, meaning having people who knew or recognized this gas, but, they did see a sign of the chlorine gas. Only recognizing it for being a gas; but, not identifying what kind of gas it was specifically. They, the soldiers, who were soon to be the victims of the gas, had noticed a green-yellowish cloud coming towards them. When the gas had hit them; they had seen and felt the effects right away due to chlorine gas stopping them from breathing in oxygen which results in making you choke and suffocate to death. For phosgene gas, the soldiers did not see the gas, but if they had been hit or inhaled this gas, they would definitely feel the effects within 48 hours after inhaling it due to it bedding itself within the respiratory system.
How Soldiers Protected Themselves From Exposure and Prevention of the Effects
Soldiers tried to prevent themselves from these poisonous and quite deadly gases by creating gas masks. But this only worked if someone had warned the soldiers around them of there being a poisonous gas exposure let out into the air. If there was no gas mask within one soldiers reach, or they simply just did not hear the call until later one when it was too late to bring out their gas mask, they would simply take a cloth and soak it with their own urine and put it upon their mouth and nose to block the gases.
Soldiers tried to prevent themselves from these poisonous and quite deadly gases by creating gas masks. But this only worked if someone had warned the soldiers around them of there being a poisonous gas exposure let out into the air. If there was no gas mask within one soldiers reach, or they simply just did not hear the call until later one when it was too late to bring out their gas mask, they would simply take a cloth and soak it with their own urine and put it upon their mouth and nose to block the gases.
Treatment for the Effects
There were three main ways a doctor could treat a victim that had been exposed to the gas. For the less severe cases, they would use a specially made ointment and flush the eyes of the victim, but, for the more severe cases they would have to use a special menthol solution given to the patient with a breathing mask. For the high severe cases, they quarantined the patient and hoped that they would not die.
By Brittany Judy
There were three main ways a doctor could treat a victim that had been exposed to the gas. For the less severe cases, they would use a specially made ointment and flush the eyes of the victim, but, for the more severe cases they would have to use a special menthol solution given to the patient with a breathing mask. For the high severe cases, they quarantined the patient and hoped that they would not die.
By Brittany Judy