Effects of OP Nerve Agents

    Some of the OP nerve agents are sarin, soman and VX.  These nerve agents were created and designed to incapacitate and kill humans.    The effects of these OP agents are similar to that of extreme pesticide poisoning.  When these chemicals are inhaled in minute amounts it causes increased salivation.  It may also cause a runny nose.  When exposed to the skin of humans (also in small amounts)  it only causes local sweating and muscle twitching.   Eye exposure to these chemicals causes rapid miosis which is the contraction of the pupil.  It may cause  blurred vision along with eye pain and a headache.

    When humans come into contact with  OP nerve agents in high doses through any part of their body the results are much more severe.   Convulsions and airway obstruction begin to happen immediatly, and between one and two minutes you begin to develope an apnea, which is the temporary stopage of breathing.   Along with that you also develope neuromuscular blockage(when both nerves and muscles stop working.)   High doses of the OP nerve agents are usually fatal because of the respiratory parallysis  which happens shortly later.