Dr. Jennifer Brown

You're causing a massive immune response, inflammatory response, I should say, through all parts of your body.

If you're...

You know, tear gas is in your mouth, and you don't flush your mouth out and then spit the water out, and you're swallowing it trying to get it out.

I don't know.

the chemicals that activate those receptors are not the only things that are in tear gas, right?

I mentioned you have to add a whole bunch of other stuff to it in order to make it into a gas.

There are so many other nasty chemicals in there that have been known to cause cancer, that are known to be toxic.

You have smoke also often being deployed in addition to tear gas at a lot of these protests.

It's really hard for people to know what exactly they've been exposed to unless you can find a canister that was thrown near you and know that this is what it was and try and do your own research.

So it's hard to say, you know, this is the mechanism of action.

Mechanism of action of what?

What chemical specifically?