Symptoms of exposure may include burning sensation coughing, wheezing, laryngitis, shortness of breath, headache, nausea and vomiting. Material is extremely destructive to eyes and skin. Harmful if swallowed. When parenterally administered tin salts are highly toxic. Tin Oxide inhaled as a dust or fume leads to a benign pneumoconiosis with no sign of interference with pulmonary function.
Deposited dust appears nodular with the particles being mostly extracelluar.
Tin salts that have gained access to the blood stream are highly toxic and produce neurologic damage and paralysis. With most common fluids producing unphysiologic pH values. The reported symptoms of hyperemia, vascular changes with bleeding in the central nervous system, liver, heart and other organs may be due to tin itself or to the unphysiological pH changes. Ingestion produces vomiting due to the gastric irritation form the activity and astringency of tin compounds. Injection of inorganic tin salts produces diarrhea, muscle paralysis and twitching.