I have been searching on the internet, trying to locate some articles on the use of chlorine mixed with ammonia, and have been unsuccessful.
Yesterday I walked into my daughter's daycare center. Upon entering, I immediately felt light headed and my eyes began to tear. I recognized the smell. When I asked the daycare instructor what they had been using, she advised me that the smell was bleach. I proceeded to ask her if they had added soap to it. She informed me that they had cleaned the daycare center
(room) using a combination of dish soap with bleach. I explained that combining the two products causes a poisonous gas and asked them to walk all the kids outside and air out the room. While they accepted my request, I felt that they were appeasing me, not really believing my explanation of the reaction between chemicals.
My daughter attends a daycare program offered through the district. The daycare center is one classroom in a public school and I would like to provide them with any literature in this regard so that they can share with the other locations. The room is quite small, and had I not advised the instructor, who knows what the result might have been. Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate any articles on the internet regarding this subject, and I was hoping you could help to provide me with such.
Some years ago, I took a CPR/first aid class. The instructer was an employee of the fire department, the brother to a friend of mine. During this class we discussed the consequences of mixing chemicals together. It was then that I learned that mixing ammonia with bleach caused a deadly chlorine gas. Unfortunately most CPR/first aid classes do not cover this material. The class that I took was through a friend of mine, and was a little more extensive.
Any information you can provide me regarding this would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.