I’m retired (72) & primarily use a very small guest bathroom with a quickly nasty looking toilet bowl. I recently used spa brominating tables instead of chlorine tablets (in a Kaboom system that bypasses the tank) for fear of inhaling chlorine gas. The bromine tablet worked great but also has a strong odor. Is the off gassing from bromine or chlorine tablets toxic?
replying to Older woman, Older man wrote: Up to a point. Highly concentrated chlorine or bromine gas is deadly, and chlorine gas was used in WW1 in the trenches to kill soldiers. Conversely, the whiff you get when pouring bleach for your laundry or standing in a swimming pool is a minor exposure. If you're having eye, nose, throat, or lung irritation, stop using it
IDK why you're worried about chlorine gas. Googling the Kaboom thing, it's a toilet cleaning add on that puts some small amount of whatever into the water to allegedly keep the toilet clean. The odds that it's going to generate anything dangerous under normal use seems non-existent. But one does have to wonder if that's true under all conditions and apparently this thing puts whatever it puts into every refill of the toilet. So, I suppose if it refills with something that has bleach in it and you put acid into the toilet to remove ring stains, that could generate chlorine gas, but whether it could produce enough to be dangerous, IDK. Just saying that when you have something that always puts something into toilet water, somebody should have considered the obvious potential issues, what does the Kaboom instructions say?
As for bromine tablets, same would apply. By themselves, nothing to worry about. They are used in spas for example. But if someone comes along and pours another product into the toilet bowel, thinking that it's just water, then it would depend on the chemistry. Some manager at a fast food restaurant just died from chlorine gas. Apparently a worker was cleaning the kitchen floor with a bleach based cleaner, unaware that another acid product had been spilled on it. It produced a green bubbling mess, people were choking from it and the manager elected to try to push it to a drain. He died, others were hospitalized but survived.
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