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Does this have a high or a low toxicity?[edit]

From the introduction:

"Benzyl alcohol is also a useful solvent due to its polarity, low toxicity, and low vapor pressure."

From "Health & safety":

"Benzyl alcohol is also known for its toxic effects including respiratory failure, vasodilation, hypotension, convulsions, and paralysis."

Does this need clarified (to be infants/neonates)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.65.75 (talk) 23:25, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the text is quite confusing. Any discussion of benzyl alcohol toxicity needs to take dose into account. Low doses have little or no toxicity. It gets metabolized. High doses can be very toxic. This is no different from ethyl alcohol. Almost all Americans have had benzyl alcohol administered since it is a common preservative in medications and in saline. It is likely present in many natural fruits!

Mfbabcock (talk) 02:02, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Smokefoot left a message on my talkpage, which I'm moving here below. He wrote "I removed your patch test image from benzyl alcohol. I should have undone it and offered an explanation conciliatorily since I realize your intentions were very good. In any case the patch test is pretty tangential to this industrial chemical that is used in all sorts of way. Stated differently, it is not reasonable that we have an image of a patch test on every article that has a chemical that has been tested in that way. Hopefully you can see where I am coming from but if not maybe we can discuss some more. Best wishes, --Smokefoot".

Thanks for the message. First of all, text was also removed. The last half of the following sentence: "Benzyl alcohol has been reported to cause skin allergy, which can be determined via patch testing.". The subject of it causing skin allergy is already in the article. The addition of the six words is not at all undue, and is relevant. And -- of course -- the tile of the ref that is already in the article, and already used to support that sentence, is "Benzyl alcohol allergy: importance of patch testing with personal products." I think under the circumstances that the RS coverage indicates this is relevant. And Smoke is relying on subjective (well-intentioned) editor POV when he removes he subjectively asserts "the patch test is pretty tangential". When it is between RSs and editor subjective OR, we go with RSs. --Epeefleche (talk) 17:54, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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