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Painful when donating blood?

What's the substance you smell/snort when you are about to faint while donating blood?

  • When I was donating blood I remember some girl that was about to pass out and they gave her something to wake up. Was that a sort of stimulant? Was it alcohol?

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    I went through the same encouter with a friend. The substance they gave her was smelling salt. Don't know the whole chemical name, but it was called a sal volatile, which appearently means a crystaline-to-white compound used to arouse conciousness.Wikapedia has a more elaborate definition. My advice here is to google it. Like I said- smelling salt! (Also, absolutely no alcohol!)

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No its like a salt thing. Not exactly sure what's in it but I've always been told its a salt pack. It stinks really bad that's why it wakes you up its more of the smell then the actual thing.

sara

It's an ammonia inhalant. It's just ammonia.

Alex E

its a very strong scent, compounded of acidic smells.

Kiwi

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