Is carbon dioxide good for the body?

Answer 1

Short answer no.Carbon dioxide is a gas that is found in the air, when you inhale your lungs filter out the oxygen and distribute it, what's left over is mostly carbon dioxide. While it is not actively poisenous like carbon monoxide if there is to much carbon dioxide in the air you will not get enough oxygen and you will die.

Answer 2

In small amounts, carbon dioxide is a natural byproduct of metabolism and plays a role in maintaining acid-base balance in the body. However, excessive levels of carbon dioxide can lead to respiratory acidosis and serious health issues.

Answer 3

Carbon Dioxide is only poisonous when given with a great concentration and amount.

Otherwise, the amount of Carbon dioxide existing in the atmosphere does not harm human.

Alternatively, Carbon dioxide is needed for plants and since plants is what human needs to survive, Carbon dioxide is also what keeps human alive until now.

Too much carbon dioxide in the air is causing global warming, which will be very bad for us if it is not stopped.

Answer 4

Carbon dioxide is an emission from your body. It generally it not harmful as it is all around you, unless you breathe in a very high amount of it. Then it might disturb the transportation of oxygen in your body. However, beware of carbon monoxide. It connects with your red blood cells with your body upon breathing it in and it makes your red blood cells unable to (properly) transport oxygen.

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I think CO2 suffocates by displacing or replacing oxygen, rather than having a direct physiological effect as CO does - but the symptoms of CO2 asphyxiation include panting and nausea.

It is exhaled by the body because it is a by-product of metabolism.

Answer 5

Humans must breathe in air containing a certain amount of oxygen in order to survive. If there is too much carbon dioxide in the air, one cannot breathe in enough oxygen per breath, which may lead to suffocation.

On a large scale, carbon dioxide contributes to the greenhouse effect (global warming), which has negative repercussions for humans.

Answer 6

Yes of course!!! its because that your body cannot find any clean air for

your lungs to breath with, and that air that we are finding is called

oxygen (ocs-si-jen). It is the clean air that we use to breathe.

because, if you breathe in carbon dioxide, we will be coughing

and coughing like a mainiac.

Answer 7

Carbon dioxide is actually essential for life, but like most other things it is toxic in excess.

When dissolved in blood plasma, carbonic anhydrase (an enzyme found, among other places, in erythrocytes) catalyses its conversion to carbonic acid. This plays a vital role in regulation of blood pH, which must be kept within a very small range and is subject to many influential factors. Low levels of carbon dioxide in the blood can lead to alkalosis (a blood pH too high to be compatible with life) and may cause permanent cellular damage.

The urge to breathe also results from carbon dioxide in blood plasma. When carbon dioxide levels are high, the human body assumes this means the rate of respiration, which produces carbon dioxide, is greater than the capacity of breathing to exchange it for oxygen, so you feel the need to breath faster and deeper. If no carbon dioxide is present at all, you will not feel the need to breath and would pass out very quickly. This is how hyperventilation works, and is particularly popular with free divers - by breathing very quickly and deeply a few times a larger amount than normal of carbon dioxide leaves the blood, enabling them to hold their breath for longer under water (with the obvious danger that they would pass out underwater due to lack of oxygen).

However, unusually high concentrations of carbon dioxide in the blood may actually cause, rather than regulate, changes in blood pH (more acidic) that can be lethal (respiratory acidosis). It also has potential to asphyxiate due to the related reduction in oxygen available if carbon dioxide in the air is significant.

So yes, it can be bad for your health. But you can't live without it. Like so many other things...

Answer 8

yes because we don't need we need oxygen not carbon dioxide trees need that

Answer 9

If you take in too much it is. So a little is not bad.

Answer 10

yes! it doesn't really let you get enough oxygen!