I am having a hard time understanding something, and I need help with this: I have a friend that told me his Dad was over come with smoke from a barn fire years ago - and he is now confined to a wheelchair resulting from the smoke and that it caused brain damage and he now has symptoms of Parkinsons....I can't divulge the reason I need to know, but can someone tell me how accurate this sounds? Thanks
2006-09-21 04:44:42 · 13 answers · asked by Future Doc 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Brain damage:
Yes; it is horribly common. Two articles that review the relation between smoke and brain damage:
Basic - MedlinePlus Cerebral hypoxia
... http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001435.htm
More detailed - eMedicine Smoke Inhalation
... http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic538.htm
Parkinson's like disease
Yes, but the relationship is poorly understood. It may be from chemicals in the smoke or carbon monoxide.
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - Dangers, Detection, Response and Poisoning. http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:lBYS5gN6jKAJ:www.abe.iastate.edu/human_house/aen193.asp+smoke+inhalation+parkinson%27s+-%22Way+to+Slow+Parkinson%27s%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=11
Hecht SS. Deguelin as a Chemopreventive Agent in Mouse Lung Tumorigenesis Induced by Tobacco Smoke Carcinogens. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 97, No. 22, 1634-1635, November 16, 2005
2006-09-21 04:58:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Inhaling smoke can sear your lungs. Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy. Instead of being awakened by a fire, you may fall into a deeper sleep. Asphyxiation is the leading cause of fire deaths...And yes it does cause brain damage to much inhaling of smoke would cause your heart to mal-function which will lead to your brain and sadly muck up your brain cell's and feel extremely light headed causing you to lose memory and get brain damaged for life.For some its severe and sometime's if you get help right away they can help medically.Parkinsons disease is caused by smoking and anything related to that!!
2006-09-21 04:55:43 · answer #2 · answered by Lovemykids 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt the Parkinson's is related (but I'm not a doctor). But yes, seeing as how you can die from smoke inhalation, I can certainly understand *almost* dying but suffering from brain damage due to oxygen starvation.
2006-09-21 04:54:15 · answer #3 · answered by jplrvflyer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if the smoke inhalation resulted in brain-damaging hypoxia at the time. While smoke may contain later-acting poisons, they are mostly carcinogens and nothing that could lie latent in the body and attack the brain years later.
2006-09-21 04:50:01 · answer #4 · answered by All hat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds accurate. It's not so much the smoke itself that damages the brain, but the lack of oxygen.
2006-09-21 04:53:57 · answer #5 · answered by Kikka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Oxygen was not getting to the man's brain because of the smoke.
2006-09-21 04:46:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's possible that he suffered an injury due to the combination of lack of oxygen (fire needs oxygen) and carbon monoxide poisoning (produced by the fire). Both can conspire to produce what is called an anoxic brain injury.
2006-09-21 05:43:08 · answer #7 · answered by adamsjrcn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i think that that is true due to the facts fumes from the smoke plus carbon monoxide but it would also depend on how much smoke was inhaled but not to sure on the side effects but why do you look it up on the medical web sites
2006-09-21 05:01:22 · answer #8 · answered by dizzy_liz1954 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone being deprived of oxygen can have resulting damage, short or long term.
2006-09-21 04:56:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It certainly seems like a serious possibility.
Think of all of the first responders to the twin towers and how sick and dying most of them are.
2006-09-21 04:47:54 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋