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My mother's caregiver spilled part of a pizza in the over yesterday and it started smoking something aweful when I tried to use it this morning so I did a really stupid thing and looked on the internet for advice on how to make an oven cleaner from what I had around the house. Well, the site said to mix chlorx and vinigar and lemon juice and dish washing soap and rub it in and wait 45 minutes and wash it off. Sounds easy, tight? Well they didn't say that when you mix chlorx and vinigar you end up with chlorine gas! There I was with my head in that over wondering why I couldn't breathe and why my chest felt like it was a bad burn with your fingernails scraping over it and why I was getting worse and worse. I had to keep forcing my head inside to keep putting all that stuff on the walls and top and floor of that oven and finally I just couldn't do it anymore. I just couldn't breathe and my lungs burned so very badly I just couldn't take it anymore. I had to cough but I couldn't breathe in because of the pain and I just got out of the kitchen and when my mom, an elderly retired doctor, saw me she said to call poison control. Good idea. I had had quite an exposure they said and I did what they said to do to treat it here but they said I may get worse tonight with pulmanory edema because of the chemical burn to my lungs that keeps getting worse for several hours. Oh, great! Now I'll have to stay awake all night to try not to die. I may be being dramatic but I still feel aweful, and I'm suposed to work tomorrow. I don't have health insurance or I'd go to the ER but I did learn something from all this, DO NOT MIX CHEMICALS TO CLEAN YOUR OVEN!!