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The harmful effects of carbon monoxide (CO) does not manifest itself in the lungs. Rather CO acts as a gas similar to oxygen, it diffuses through the lungs tissue as normal and binds to hemoglobin, which is normally used to transport oxygen around the body by binding to it and carrying it around. However, this is where CO becomes harmful. CO enters the bloodstream and binds to hemoglobin with a far greater affinity that oxygen, in essence inactivating the hemoglobin molecule. Therefore hemoglobin is unable to properly transport oxygen since it is already bound up by CO and hypoxia sets in quickly.
There is no way to "cure" CO poisoning in the way to chemically unbind CO from hemoglobin, this is why individuals with CO poisoning must be removed from the CO environment and given 100% oxygen to breath, to allow the slow process of CO dissociation from hemoglobin to occur.
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∙ 13y agoCarbon monooxide is known as poisnous to human because it can bind with blood haemoglobin 200 times more then oxygen so it can block blood oxygen carrying capacity and we can die due to lack of oxygen or hypoxia...
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Can carbon monoxide get in the lungs of someone on oxygen from someone else smoking cigarettes?
The smoker absorbs all the carbon monoxide he inhales. But the cigarette is stinking up the room and also increasing the room's carbon monoxide. Anyone can inhale and absorb that.
Which is better carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide?
Carbon dioxide is way better than carbon monoxide. Carbon dioxide is taken when some thing is burned. Combustion is a reaction which gives out energy as heat. When a flame develops it is called burning. When incomeplete combustion happens carbon monoxide is given out and not carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide is very dangerous. It has no small or coulous so it enters our lungs with out us knowing and bloacks out breathing. Many people died from this.
Lung and gills help animals take in?
Lungs and gills help animals breathe by taking in oxygen and than releasing carbon monoxide.
What would happen if carbon monoxide was in the air?
Carbon monoxide mixes with air and is an extremely dangerous gas when highly concentrated in an enclosed space. A high concentration of carbon monoxide in inhaled air prevents the lungs of people and animals from transferring oxygen to the blood, and death may occur. For this reason, carbon dioxide detectors are recommended in closed buildings having gas or wood burning heating and cooking systems. Incomplete combustion may take place in gas and wood stoves, furnaces, or fireplaces. Carbon monoxide detectors provide a warning to people if carbon monoxide gas concentration becomes dangerously high in the air they breathe. carbon monoxide (co) when inhaled mixes with haemoglobin to become a dangerous compound when it reaches the heart.
What occurs when carbon monoxide enters the lungs?
When air is inspired, it goes into the lungs, spreads across the alveoli which are like air sacs, and increases the oxygen content in the blood (through capillaries) with the help of hemoglobin. At the same time, carbon dioxide is being transferred into the alveoli by the capillaries used to transfer blood. The oxygen rich blood is sent through the pulmonary vein into the right side of the heart where it is transferred to the rest of the body. Meanwhile, the carbon dioxide that had been collected by the air sacs in the lungs is expired.
Where do lungs exchange oxygen and carbon monoxide?
The lungs do not exchange oxygen and carbon monoxide. They exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide. They do that in the aveoli.
Which gas enters the bloodstream through the lungs and binds to hemoglobin and reduces the amount of oxygen that reaches the body's organs and tissues?
Carbon monoxide
What gases are exchange in the lungs?
carbon monoxide and oxygen
What waste product is delivered back to the lungs and exhaled?
Carbon Dioxide. carbon monoxide in cigerets
Air leaving human lungs during exhalation contains?
what is the answer A. no Oxygen B. Mostly Carbon Dioxide C. Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen D. Mostly Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide E. None of this choices are correct
How does carbon monoxide get in to the body?
Through the lungs--most commonly by smoking cigarettes.
2 What were the 3 substances mentioned that are sucked into your lungs from a cigarette?
Carbon monoxide
What gas blocks oxygen from combing with hemoglobin in the lungs?
carbon monoxide (CO)
Can carbon monoxide get in the lungs of someone on oxygen from someone else smoking cigarettes?
The smoker absorbs all the carbon monoxide he inhales. But the cigarette is stinking up the room and also increasing the room's carbon monoxide. Anyone can inhale and absorb that.
What are common types of inhaled poisons?
There are many poisons in first hand smoke and they can cause different kinds of diseases and cancers. Some of the poisons are tar and carbon monoxide. They effect the lungs by lowering their elasticity. These toxins can also give you stained teeth and bad breath.
Why is carbon monxide bad for humans?
the reason y carbon monoxide is not healthy for human is because the when it is been in healed it displace the oxygen in the lungs. hence it is m ore favoured then oxygen. so if your block from oxygen you will die
Which is better carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide?
Carbon dioxide is way better than carbon monoxide. Carbon dioxide is taken when some thing is burned. Combustion is a reaction which gives out energy as heat. When a flame develops it is called burning. When incomeplete combustion happens carbon monoxide is given out and not carbon dioxide. Carbon monoxide is very dangerous. It has no small or coulous so it enters our lungs with out us knowing and bloacks out breathing. Many people died from this.
