Blythe Terrell

So they're like little warning, little alarm bells are going off.

And it turns out that the receptor, this particular receptor, we've got a bunch of them in our nose and in our throat and the places where we're often encountering tear gas.

So it can get really bad.

It can also cause a bunch of inflammation, like this big immune response in your body.

Here is Jennifer talking about that.

There have also been reports of people being in like really tight spaces with this stuff, with this tear gas.

Ugh.

Even babies.

There was a story about a family.

They said they were in their car and that agents rolled a tear gas canister under the car.

And it went off and it, like, filled up their car.

They had multiple kids in there, including a six-month-old baby.

And the baby was having trouble breathing.

They had to give CPR.

They had to go to the hospital.

Oh, my God.

So I asked Jennifer about that.

But this, like, speaks to one of the other things that Jennifer pointed out about tear gas, right?

So there's a lot of science that we just don't have.

And that's partly because a lot of the studies of like tear gases effects on people are from people in the military who are exposed as a part of training.