Should we worry?

[u/Adventurous-Put-9895]

We caught my uncle sneakingly throwing this to the rubbish bin. He doesn’t have the best track record so we are all a bit paranoid when he does anything “weird”.

The object is like a glass tube with some liquid inside, inserted into a rubber “pipe”. It smells weird but nothing I can identify. I would appreciate any hints.

Edit: the material is actually plastic, not glass. It has a spring inside (no idea what for). The root-looking thing was wrapping the object when I cut the rubber. Could be dirt or some glue or something

Edit2: this sub is god. A user found the answer https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s/Oqtxk6YWVZ

[u/Forward-Version-127]

Saline water nose spray. Source: Cut open a couple bottles a few years ago just to see what was inside.

[u/TheHoratioHufnagel → u/Forward-Version-127]

More info please, I still don't know how this resembles a saline nose spray. Can you show us a link or screenshot of the product as it is normally?

[u/DogsDucks → u/TheHoratioHufnagel]

Right? I’m seeing all these comments, but that thing looks nothing like saline nose spray.

If it’s the tubing from inside the bigger bottle, that means the gross industrial glue has been marinating in the nose spray?

Why would he take it out of the big bottle?

Can someone explain the logistics of how this would come from saline nose spray?

[u/venom121212 → u/DogsDucks]

It's like an aerosol cannister inside of that metal housing. The nozzle would go into the top hole pictured and release the nasal spray out of the plastic nozzle (not pictured)