What harm does carbon do to the human body

Carbon is something we cannot see. Carbon monoxide is the most obvious. It is also the gas that is most harmful to the human body. In normal times, many of our friends have come into contact with carbon and have been harmed by it. There have also been deaths from carbon poisoning. We must pay attention in life or work to prevent carbon poisoning. So, what are the hazards of carbon to the human body? Let’s take a look at it together.

After carbon enters the human body, it will combine with hemoglobin in the blood, making hemoglobin unable to combine with oxygen, thereby causing hypoxia in the body's tissues and leading to suffocation and death. Therefore carbon monoxide is toxic. Carbon is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, so it is easy to ignore it and cause poisoning. It often occurs in poorly ventilated homes, where poisoning is caused by gas produced by coal stoves, leaks in liquefied gas pipelines, industrial gas, or inhalation of carbon from mines.

Symptoms of carbon poisoning are as follows:

One is mild poisoning. Patients may experience headache, dizziness, insomnia, blurred vision, tinnitus, nausea, vomiting, general fatigue, tachycardia, and short-term fainting. The carboxyhemoglobin content in the blood reaches 10%-20%.

The second is moderate poisoning. In addition to the aggravation of the above symptoms, the lips, nails, and skin mucosa appear cherry red, there is excessive sweating, blood pressure first increases and then decreases, heart rate accelerates, arrhythmia, irritability, and temporary separation of sensation and movement (that is, the person can still think but cannot move). If the symptoms continue to worsen, drowsiness and coma may occur. The carboxyhemoglobin in the blood is about 30%-40%. With timely rescue, the patient can wake up quickly, and there are generally no complications or sequelae.

The third is severe poisoning. The patient quickly fell into a coma. In the early stage, the muscle tone of the limbs increases, or there are paroxysmal tonic spasms; in the late stage, the muscle tone decreases significantly, the patient's face becomes pale or cyanotic, blood pressure drops, pupils dilate, and finally death occurs due to respiratory paralysis. Those who survive rescue may have serious complications and sequelae.

The aftermath of carbon.

Patients with moderate to severe poisoning may suffer from neurasthenia, parkinsonism, hemiplegia, hemianopsia, aphasia, dysphagia, intellectual disability, toxic psychosis or decerebrate rigidity. Some patients may develop secondary encephalopathy.

Through the above introduction, we know the harm of carbon to the human body, so we must pay attention to such situations in normal times, especially to do a good job of carbon prevention. If carbon poisoning occurs, we must first perform first aid treatment, and then send the patient to the hospital for treatment in time.