Safety of Isopropyl Alcohol?

[happycat]

I smelt something strange in the living room so, being a bird owner, I of course had to track down the scent. Saw a bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol and took a whiff, and sure enough that was it. It smells like a mix of hand sanitizer and spray can.

The back of the bottle says "used in ventilated area as fumes could be toxic" which concerns me a bit. The scent is very faint and not at all and I can't detect so much as an ounce of it in the room my birds are in. But I'd like to know if this is dangerous.

Oh...the struggles of living with a taxidermist sister... :11: (I'm not joking)

By the way its 70% isoprpyl alchohol so its not a diluted cleaner or anything

 

[ChristaNL]

Alcoholfumes get absorbed by mucous membranes (the birds, yours and your sisters).


Taxidermy is a fun hobby -> but you need a well ventilated arearea and actually some way of sucking up& out the fumes (like a ventilation hood while you cook / she could actually install one above her workingspace!) just like any other hobby that releases volatile / toxic gasses into the air.