Numerous toxicants have some sought of an affect the human body. These come in a variety of ways, but in the process more often the most affected happens to be the respiratory, immune system, along with the liver. These are primary systems within the body that are vital in order for each of us function and survive. Therefore if by some chance these if any of these systems/organ manage to fail, the likely outcome would be that a person becomes very ill. While technology has come a long way, as result people diagnoses’ are much more accurate, the medicine have drastically improved. This has manage to facilitate a ways to increase function of these systems even after an exposure of a toxicant, if only for a short period of time. However with
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The airway, which includes the nose, mouth, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles, carries air between the lungs and the body’s exterior. The nasopharynx serves to remove large particles from inhaled air, add moisture, and moderate the temperature. The tracheal and bronchial tract serves as the conducting airway to the alveoli. The pulmonary acini are the sites were oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between blood and the air, and are the main sites of absorption of toxicants that exist in the form of gases and vapors. (Lu’s Basic Toxicology, …show more content…
Therefore inhalable toxicants can be in the forms of gases, vapors, liquid droplets, and solid particulate matters. Toxicants such as Tetrachloroethylene, depending on the particular size, may either be absorbed or exhaled. And when inhaled, this might exert systemic effects from respiratory tract and distributed it to other tissues which may induce local effects on the respiratory tract or both. There is a possibility the respiratory tract may be affected after exposure from another route. For example, if Tetrachloroethylene is inhaled, and passes through the respiratory tract, thus reaching the blood stream then sent to the liver. Depending the level concentration the immune system. could be effect. (Lu’s Basic Toxicology,
The airway, which includes the nose, mouth, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles, carries air between the lungs and the body’s exterior. The nasopharynx serves to remove large particles from inhaled air, add moisture, and moderate the temperature. The tracheal and bronchial tract serves as the conducting airway to the alveoli. The pulmonary acini are the sites were oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between blood and the air, and are the main sites of absorption of toxicants that exist in the form of gases and vapors. (Lu’s Basic Toxicology, …show more content…
Therefore inhalable toxicants can be in the forms of gases, vapors, liquid droplets, and solid particulate matters. Toxicants such as Tetrachloroethylene, depending on the particular size, may either be absorbed or exhaled. And when inhaled, this might exert systemic effects from respiratory tract and distributed it to other tissues which may induce local effects on the respiratory tract or both. There is a possibility the respiratory tract may be affected after exposure from another route. For example, if Tetrachloroethylene is inhaled, and passes through the respiratory tract, thus reaching the blood stream then sent to the liver. Depending the level concentration the immune system. could be effect. (Lu’s Basic Toxicology,