Broken glass thermometer?

Glass thermometer, because of its low price advantage, often in our daily life, such as measuring body temperature thermometer and indoor temperature thermometer, measuring the temperature and humidity in the use of dry wet bulb can see the figure of it. Dry wet bulb thermometer but we also have a question, is the glass rod thermometer broken what should I do? Because glass rod thermometer inside the liquid filling, as a general rule, be mercury or kerosene. The former greatly toxic vapors, mercury thermometers, after accidentally broken mercury drop on the ground will disperse into beads. If not collected in time, will soon evaporate into the air, through the human respiratory tract can enter the nervous system, causing symptoms. If accidentally met on the skin can also enter the body, but also damage the health of the body. Mercury can damage the brain, and may even damage the reproductive system caused deformed offspring. Which are usually red pigments and the mixture of kerosene, kerosene toxicity, as long as the clean up in time. If mercury thermometer is broken, want to open a window ventilated, quickly and quickly collected, the broken mercury and airtight preservation, collecting well, it is good to keep the air circulation in the room, generally a night.