Can too much oxygen be deadly for the human body?

Answer 1

• Yup. Here are some of the problems that can happen:
• Pulmonary edema (intensive-care patients on breathing machines at 30 hours or more exposure)
• Decreases in the rate of gas exchange across the alveoli (intensive-care patients on breathing machines at 30 hours of exposure)
• Chest pains that were worse during deep breathing (volunteers with 24 hours of exposure)
• Decrease in the total volume of exchangeable air in the lung (vital capacity) by 17 percent (volunteers with 24 hours of exposure)
• Local areas of collapsed alveoli when plugged by mucus, a condition called atelectasis (patients, volunteers). The oxygen entrapped in the plugged alveolus gets absorbed into the blood, no gas is left to keep the plugged alveolus inflated and it collapses. Mucus plugs happen normally but are cleared by coughing. Also, if alveoli become plugged during air breathing, the nitrogen entrapped in the alveoli keeps them inflated.
• blindness caused by inadequate development of the capillaries in the lens and retina of the eye (premature infants). Reducing the oxygen to 40 percent can prevent this blindness.

Answer 2

yes, oxygen in its elemental form is naturally corrosive and so might be harmful. although, the amount does not matter as much as the purity does. pure O2 would not let you live for too long. the oxygen used in hospitals is suitably mixed with other gases so that it does not harm the human body systems and at the same time provide pure healthy air

Answer 3

of course you can it is a dangerous thing oxygen is dont breath it !!!!!!

Answer 4

your body physically wouldn't allow you to take in to much air because your medulla obbligato monitors your breathing.

Answer 5

You can overdose on oxygen. It starts with light headedness, then pulmonary edema, and death.

Answer 6

yes. if you breathe in too much you cant breathe in any more and if you do and cant breathe it means you have too much oxogyn

Answer 7

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