how to stay safe during a tear gas attack

How To Stay Safe During A Tear Gas Attack (i.e. chemical warfare)

1. Do not touch your face or your skin: Tear gas is made of very fine powder substance; touching your face and skin grinds powder particles into tear ducts, mucus membranes, and skin, creating micro abrasions and prolongs the painful sensations

2. Get to a well ventilated area: You need fresh air to dispel the powder, flap your arms up and down, try and open your eyes even for a moment at a time. sense which way the wind is blowing, go the opposite direction/allow it to blow against the direction of your motion. OXYGEN will greatly reduce the time you are suffering and dispel the effects faster

3. Bend forward at waist, allow the effects to happen: It will get into your eyes, lungs, nose, mouth; you will cough, tear, and your nose will run like never before. let everything flush out and run, your body is flushing it out on its own. RESIST THE URGE to touch your face or wipe your nose. remind yourself this will not last forever and will go away sooner than you think

4. It will stay in your clothes, hairline, and is activated by water: Tear gas is a crystalline substance and will travel with water. if you have a clean cloth, wrap it around your head to avoid sweat going into your eyes, do not wipe with hands. after you let the substance dry from air, wash it off with LOTS of water; don’t let affected clothes brush your skin/face. bend at waist and let water run in fwd direction before letting water run through whole body

* Do not panic, try to stay in control, keep your breathing even * Do not pick up cannisters *

Info sourced from Danielle Golden, fmr US marine, Video tutorial during 2020 BLM protests