I was born with asthma and I found the old acetone nail varnishes to be OK, but these new ones are really crimping my lungs.
Can any one tell me what they contain and why I should feel like this when I inhale the fumes?
Dave
Dave coughed up some electrons that declared:
Are you a goth? Otherwise, *why* are you wearing nail varnish?
Or are you a beautician?
Otherwise, I would recommend simply running away when SWMBO does her nails...
The mystery deepens...
;->
But you have my sympathies on the asthma front - my son appears to have it (too young for a +ve diagnosis) but if something sets him off, it's not fun to deal with.
No, but the wife tells me I was quite good looking a few yaers ago :-)
Not really. We have our 7 and 10 year old g daughters staying with us this week and they wanted to paint their fingernails with the wife's nail varnish tonight. They had just had a bath before joining in a Scout camp tomorrow. I am still airing the downstairs as I write this.
I found out, as a child, that a semireclined position eased it. I had no problem breating in, but the breathing out was the problem with my asthma. By half sitting up, the problem was solved. May not work for your son, but it did for me.
Dave
Don't use them then. Nail varnish on blokes is soooo '70s.
I managed to contain my bladder after that post, but...
Dave
Acetates are still widely used, but if it is not an acetate the chances are it is butyl stearate. Nail varnishes are actually a complex mix of cellulose nitrate, resins, plasticisers, pigments and solvents, but the solvent is the bit that smells as it evaporates.
Colin Bignell
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