Radiation poisoning?

Question

I was just reading on wikipedia about radiation poisoning.(very interesting i recommend a gander at it) Anyway it lists different levels of exposure and survivial rates and i was wondering that if say you got exposed to 100Sv or something very high to a small area like say your finger would that kill you? Also where is the line drawn between maximum amount of area exposed and death.

Answer 1

I would think if it was on just your finger it would only damage the finger... but I don't know for sure.

Answer 2

Radiation to your fingers might cause radiation burning which physically affects the cells in your fingers. This is the non-stochastic effects. The more radiation, the more is the effects

Radiation will also damage the macromolecules directly. For eg, DNAs which can kill the cells or if the cells survive, they have probability of mutation. They mutated cells might as well be cancerous.

Or free radicals can form, which also affect the integrity of DNAs and again, mutation.

These effects are non-deterministic, we cannot say for sure. Some people received a lot of radiation but these don't happen, some received little and he/she develops cancer.

I hope my answer helps

Answer 3

This is not an example of radiation poisoning but this is an example of radiation accident.

I know such event which happened some 30 yeas ago.

One guy dropped a strong iridium radioactive sealed source into a leaded container by his fingers. It took just a moment.

As a consequence the poor guy lost hist right hand few weeks later.
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Answer 4

Get cut in your home and the chances of it getting septic are minimal. You'd be able to clean it, you'd be able to cover it and so on. But get cut in the wild and who knows what could happen.

The same rules apply to radiation. To some extent, if it's only your finger then it's only your finger, problem solved. But if the radiation is that intense, and/or the environment you're in causes the radiation to dissipate, then the chance of it affecting the rest of you could be increased.

Unfortunately, you need specific details. Radiation, like almost everything else in this world, depends greatly on where you are, when you're there and what you're doing with it.

Answer 5

This guy is basically crammed with it. Radiation could reason tumors to enhance everywhere interior the physique which each and every from time to time makes components of the physique to look enlarged, yet while he grew to become into uncovered to this lots radiation there is not any drugs to maintain the physique components from falling off via now.

Answer 6

i would think 100Sv in a very short period of time would seriously damage your finger...as for your second question..different organ's have different weighting factors so the a dose of radiation does not effect all areas exposed in the same way. e.g. the gonads are affected more by radiation than your finger!

Answer 7

You would loose your finger, but you're unlikely to die from the radiation: there are no important organs in your finger, but amputation of the finger would be advised. Problem is that unless it was a very controlled experiment on your finger, it would be difficult to estimate what parts are irradiated and how much. I do not think these kind of experiments are done any longer now...

Answer 8

If your finger was exposed to radiation, the worst that would likely happen is that it would destroy your finger by a radiation burn or, later on, cancer. Of course, if the burn got infected or cancer went untreated and metastasized, it could spread and kill you.

Answer 9

I don't really know much about this, but it seems to me that the amount of radiation received would matter much more than the amount of your body's surface area affected,I don't think you could really draw a line there.

Answer 10

yes....very good article.