Do our skin really breath? Why not carbon dioxide and oxygen didn't diffuse from our blood stream out of our body through sweat pore? Sometimes in hot day, I feel there's air coming out of my cloth, is it my skin breathing or just evaporation of sweat?
2007-03-19 01:19:19 · 4 answers · asked by Lai Yu Zeng 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
yes your skin breathes... but you can not live on it.. meaning you can not hold your breathe and let your skin breathe for you... it doesnt work like that...
the cool air you feel is evaporation of sweat off your skin it is another way your body cools off... kinda like your own air conditioning unit..
2007-03-19 01:30:40 · answer #1 · answered by Larry M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the human skin breathes...through little pores and keeps us living...but if those pores got blocked up or clogged..we would'nt live very long.
2007-03-19 08:37:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's just evaporation.
The idea that if your skin can't breathe you die is an urban legend. Check it out:
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/goldfing.htm
2007-03-19 10:55:48 · answer #3 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without o2 your skin will die...so, yes your skin does breathe...and that feeling you have is evaporation nothing more....
2007-03-19 08:31:14 · answer #4 · answered by rev. needy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋