Tonight at work I suffered an extremely mild case of cyanide poisoning from, as far as I can tell,
inhalation of sodium cyanide powder. I work in a lab therefore use it all the time but have never
experienced any problems. I started feeling dizzy while a workmate was talking to me a couple of
minutes after leaving the room where i think i was exposed. I felt like i was about to pass out,
went into the bathroom to wash my face and had extremely dilated pupils and red eyes. These are the
only symptoms I had. I made myself vomit into the toilet in case I had somehow swallowed any and
then went outside to sit down for about 45 minutes. I still felt slightly dizzy after all this but
seem to have recovered ok so far (been about 4 hours).
I was just wondering whether cyanide could have any prolonged or long term effects after
experiencing something like this? I spoke to poisons information on the phone and she told me to
visit the hospital if i continued to have any symptoms.