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Effects of OP Nerve Agents

��� Some of the OP nerve agents are sarin, soman and VX.� These nerve agents were created and designed to incapacitate and kill humans. �� The effects of these OP agents are similar to that of extreme pesticide poisoning.� When these chemicals are inhaled in minute amounts it causes increased salivation.� It may also cause a runny nose.� When exposed to the skin of humans (also in small amounts)� it only causes local sweating and muscle twitching. � Eye exposure to these chemicals causes rapid miosis which is the contraction of the pupil.� It may cause� blurred vision along with eye pain and a headache.

��� When humans come into contact with� OP nerve agents in high doses through any part of their body the results are much more severe. � Convulsions and airway obstruction begin to happen immediatly, and between one and two minutes you begin to develope an apnea, which is the temporary stopage of breathing. � Along with that you also develope neuromuscular blockage(when both nerves and muscles stop working.)�� High doses of the OP nerve agents are usually fatal because of the respiratory parallysis� which happens shortly later.