my friend thinks helium is a drug and i keep saying its used for blowing up party balloons and he rekions its a drug...... buts
And he also rekions that you dont inhail it to make your voice funny
hes name is jack hudson
what you rekion YES/No
2006-10-10 17:34:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
It is not a "drug".
But it sure is fun to inhale. It makes your voice REAAALLLY high! Oh it's so much fun. It makes you feel a bit light headed as well. But this only last for like...10 seconds.
Darnit, now I want a helium filled balloon!
2006-10-10 17:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by StarrLee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's "reckon", not "rekion".
Helium is not a drug. The "high" that some people think they're getting or try to get from helium is asphyxia (a lack of oxygen).
Basically, if it was a drug, it would have weird effects on your brain/body/etc. whenever you inhaled it. This doesn't happen.
Instead, when you inhale it from a tank or balloon, you aren't getting regular air--which contains a mix of gases, among which is oxygen--you just get helium, which doesn't help your body and can start you on the road to passing out for lack of oxygen.
They reason your voice sounds funny after breathing in helium is that sound travels differently through pure helium than it does normal air, so when you breathe in helium and speak it out, it sounds different.
2006-10-10 17:41:39 · answer #2 · answered by georgemime 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No,Helium is not a drug, because you don't need to inhale or get it in your blood to notice its effect, on the pitch of your voice!
I didn't say "the effect of helium on the body" because the only effect is dizziness, from starving the body from it's oxygen supply!
The most common effect is that of increasing the pitch of the persons voice. You will need to inhale the helium to get your lungs and later your windpipe filled as your vocal cords vibrate.
Normally the windpipe is full of air that is denser than helium and vibrates much slower in the thicker air.
When the air is replaced with the helium, that is much thinner, the vocal cords will vibrate at a much higher speed.
Giving that "Chipmunk" like voice that we all know and love!
2006-10-10 18:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helium - not used as a drug so much as sharing attributes of some drugs.
And yeah....if inhaled it makes your voice funny only briefly. Probably also killing brain cells while doing so, however.
2006-10-10 17:42:38 · answer #4 · answered by doyoucanoetoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it could be considered a drug. I work in a hospital and Respiratory Therapy uses it to give nebs in severe COPD patients. Its lighter than oxygen and we have tanks full of it.
I am a RN, not a respiratory therapist, so you would have to ask one of them why they use the helium to give the neb treatments.
2006-10-10 17:45:44 · answer #5 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
helium is not a drug per se, but it is an gaseous element. it does make your voice sound funny when you inhale it, this i know first hand, but not a drug jack hudson. sorry.
2006-10-10 17:38:04 · answer #6 · answered by fan_of_the_dolphins 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a drug just a gas that's lighter than air.
2006-10-10 17:36:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not a drug
2006-10-10 17:41:49 · answer #8 · answered by jettalady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-10-10 17:40:13 · answer #9 · answered by Nancy R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋