is suckin the helium of a ballon bad 4 u ???

Question

help !!!!!!

Answer 1

Not really. You'd need to breathe a lot to pass out from it and if you passed out, you'd start breathing. And as first answerer said, it isn't pure helium. I worked as a physics lab assistant in college and we had access to a tank of helium. The main result of breathing helium was that our boss got irritated at us for talking like Donald Duck. A person stupid enough to smoke while inhaling helium might join the ranks of the winners of the Darwin awards - it would explode in their mouth. Just don't put the nozzle of the tank directly in your mouth - oooh, that might hurt!

Answer 2

There are two reasons that sucking gas could be bad for you:

1) It is poisonous. This isn't true of helium. Helium is one of those substances that it doesn't combine with anything else, so it will just pass in and out of your system without doing anything.

2) It displaces oxygen. You need oxygen to breath--we can live by breathing air because air is partly made of oxygen. If a balloon were filled with pure helium, you could suffocate from filling your lungs with the helium, the same way you drown in water. Most likely, though, your body would force you to breath out and breath in air before you died.

Answer 3

No, not really.
And you won't suffocate due to lack of oxygen because the helium companies put some O2 in the tank just so kids don't kill themselves via asphyxiation when they inhale.

Answer 4

Yes.

Its how the winners of the 2006 Darwin Awards killed themselves.