Feel sick after oil change.....odd

[Abomb]

OK this is odd...... So I changed the oil in the wife's Pathfinder tonight and I felt real nauseated after about halfway through. I remember feeling real sick last couple times I did my diesel oil change as well. Does this happen to anyone else? The feeling goes away after an hour or so. Just curious......

 

[chevyII]

Are you getting you hands in the oil? You absorb it in your hands. Or maybe the fumes? Try wearing some sergical gloves next time.

 

[DailyDrifter]

Maybe you have some sort of reaction to petroleum. The only thing that makes me nauseous is gear oil some times.

 

[XLR8]

The fumes from 90 wt gear oil always made my uncle (a mechanic) queasy.

 

[davidf]

If your not handling the oil product, then it could possible be a medical issue. Possibly vertigo or an inner ear issue. I had this issue back in 96 and in certain positions I got dizzy and nautious.

 

[Tiretoter]

Are you crawling under the car or do you have it on a rack?? If you are laying under the car it could be vertigo as mentioned above. OR, if you are laying on the floor do you have fiberglass in the concrete? May be a reaction to your skin coming into contact with the fiberglass. Try gloves and a creeper next time.

 

[jlat]

hello people; I also believe there's something going on with the inner ear if your in a laying down position. But if it does not happen when you sleep that kicks that out. If it only happened a couple of times I probably would not worry but see a real doc.
Funny a couple of co workers got the flu shot and both had to take time off til they felt better. I got one and felt good but who knows what the bodies going to do next.
IBBY

 

[Abomb]

Thanks all for the input. Next oil change I'm going to try my paint mask and see if that helps. I had the blue nitrile gloves on the other night and didn't get much on my skin, just a little on the forearms.

I think it's the fumes. Almost instantly after I drained the oil it hit me. Odd thing is I was outside in my driveway, can't get much more ventilated than that. It got worse when I brought the drain bucket inside the garage and transferred it into milk jugs.

I don't think it's an inner ear issue because I never have this problem at work or the gym..... good looking out though, I wouldn't have thought of that.