A blood chemistry screen (test) provides vital information about your blood; it measures the levels of several substances in your blood. It most importantly provides your doctor with information about you general health, and helps identify certain problems with your body. The basic chemical elements in your blood are: Hydrogen, Oxygen, Iron, Calcium, Chloride, Potassium, and Sodium. Iron is bound to 70% of hemoglobin (red blood cells), and the rest is bound to other proteins in the body or stored in other body tissues. When your red blood cells die, iron is released and carried by transferring the iron to bone marrow and other vital organs. The source of all the iron that you receive is in the food that you eat. The body needs …show more content…
There are many forms that smog continues to plague us in whether in the photochemical in the form of light radiation or nuclear waste causing an irregular imbalance of radiation in the air. Smog is not a baseless threat, however, breathing this smog in can cause multiple issues with your respiratory system including coughing, wheezing, substernal soreness, pharyngitis, and dyspnea along with a permanent reduction in lung function. Not only does smog have several effects on your body, it can also not as be prevalent because it exists in several …show more content…
Nuclear implications on the air have created some pretty crazy incidents like the Chernobyl incident in 1986 and the Japanese nuclear meltdown which blew air all the way towards California causing some radiation sick for both the American and Japanese nationalities. Each of these incidents were somewhat contained until the radiation leaked into the air causing this hazy smog that killed many people by mutating their already burnt skin into toxic waste which further leaked into these person's skins and caused septic bloodlines. The uncovering of the core of a nuclear reactor is part of the reason for such a disaster due to the core being heated as such a high temperature then rapidly oxidizing its contents through being exposed to the much cooler air. Nuclear meltdown into smog kind of works like a weather front in this way in which the polluted hot air is pushed down the cold heavy air. On the topic of these weather fronts, systems all over the world can carry over the heavily damaging air from places like Fukushima, Japan to Los Angeles, California. With each disaster, our society continues to advance ways in containing smog by simply making new procedures in the amount of emissions our fossil fuel and nuclear plants can make. Even light emissions are being
In the article, Blood Red Night, author Lauren Tarshis' point of view is focused mostly on the destruction that the fire caused. I know this because most of the ideas that she conveys in the text use words that have to do with destruction. For example, in the section "A Choking Fog", the author states, "The blazes burned hundreds of acres of forestland and incinerated hundreds of homes and shops in nearby communities." This sentence uses several words such as blazes and incinerated which illustrate for the reader the destruction that happened during the peshtigo fire. Another example of when the author mentions the destruction that the Peshtigo fire caused was in the section "Sheets of Flame" when she states, "By morning, more than a billion
There are different types of bloodstain patterns that give a sense of what happened at the scene. The idea is to get a sort of background story from the random blood distribution. The different types of blood can tell us the method an assailant used such as passive blood stains. These stains are made from the drops off a weapon due to gravity. For instance, if an attacker w...
Driving emits particle pollution, which increases the risk of heart disease, lung cancer and asthma. Particle pollution is processed in two ways, either mechanical or chemical.
Car fumes, smog and serious air pollution can cause serious asthma attacks with coughing, chest pain and shortness of breath. All of these factors can restrict the air passages, which is a sign of asthma.
A major advantage of nuclear power is that it does not release any carbon emissions like fossil fuels (“Advantages and Disadvantages of Nuclear Energy”). The burning of fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases, which is what causes global warming. The transition to using fewer resources like these and using more nuclear power for energy will benefit the environment greatly. Arctic environments will not suffer, and ocean levels won’t rise. Global warming can even cause an increase in tropical storms. In the city, cars already release a ton of carbon emissions into the atmosphere, so using nuclear power will show a small decrease in pollution over time. Also, the health of citizens will slightly improve, but there will still be the fumes released from cars. Even though this would only be a small decrease in pollution, every little bit helps towards the Earth.
In Blood In Blood Out is a drama directed by Taylor Hackford, and starring Damian Chapa (Miklo), Benjamin Bratt (Paco), and Jesse Borrego (Cruz), produced by Hollywood Pictures. The film was based off everyday life in East Los Angeles, from the 1970’s through the 1980’s. Damian Chapa stars as Miklo in the film, a Mexican-American who wanted to be accepted, not by his skin but for the Mexican within him. Benjamin Bratt (Paco) was the older cousin of Miklo, who learned his lesson throughout the movie and changed his ways. Jesse Borrego (Cruz) is the step-brother of Paco who was a talent artist, who ended up turning to drugs because of back problems caused by a rival gang incident.
Iron is a mineral that is found the in hemoglobin of the Red Blood Cells. It facilitates in the transport of oxygen all over the body. Without this mineral, oxygen cannot be carried to its full capacity. 1 out of 10 women and small children have iron deficiencies. Lacking iron causes lethargy and a weakened immune system. Children who do not have an adequate intake of iron put themselves at risk for intellectual developmental problems. However, an iron deficient person is not necessarily anemic. 7.8 million women are iron deficient, while only 3.3 million women are anemic (http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9704/iron_def.htm). When the deficiency becomes so severe that the circulating Red Blood Count and the minerals Ht, Hg, and Hem drop below normal, anemia occurs (See Figure 1). The hormone androgen causes men and women to have different normal values of the hemogram (http://www.medstudents.com.br/hemat/hemat4.htm). Low ferritin (iron storage molecule) and high TIBC (tota...
Determining and diagnosing iron deficiencies remains an extremely difficult task due to increased plasma volume, inability to determine a “normal” ferritin level, and lack of standard testing procedures to identify the condition. Athletes generally show increased blood plasma volume, thereby altering results of an iron deficiency test. Hematocrit, the percentage of blood volume composed of formed elements, is often referenced when determining the erythrocyte concentration in a person’s blood. According to Gusmer and Dengel, low to normal hematocrit levels (42 to 52 percent in males and 37 to 47 percent in females) and a slightly higher number of red blood cells allows the best transport of oxygen throughout the body, thus optimizing performance.
Iron is an essential part of a healthy diet. Iron compounds are employed for medicinal purposes in the treatment of anemia, when the amount of hemoglobin or the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood is lowered.
Red blood cells are carriers of oxygen. A percentage of these cells contain hemoglobin, which has the capacity to combine with iron. It's the iron-hemoglobin molecular structure that helps carry oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to your tissues and in return, delivers carbon dioxide back to the lungs to be expelled. A CBC with Differential that shows low red blood cell levels can indicate anemia. RBCs comprise about 40% of total blood volume; the RBC count is the number of red blood cells per cubic millimeter of blood (Rauen, 2012). Normal red blood cells values vary a...
There are many kinds of air pollution. The ones I want to talk about are the ozone, acid rain, carbon monoxide and toxic air contaminants. Ozone is formed when hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide react in sunlight. Therefore, ozone is at its peak during hot summer days. Exposure to high levels of ozone can have serious consequences on your health. It can cause respiratory disease, loss of pulmonary elasticity, and premature aging of our lungs. Next, is acid rain, which occurs in the atmosphere in the form of sulfur and nitrogen oxide. These pollutants can have serious damaging affects on aquatic, forest and wildlife ecosystems, as well as deterioration of buildings. Carbon monoxide is another form of pollution. It reduces the blood?s ability to carry oxygen. If a human is exposed to higher levels, it can cause chest pains, angina attacks or even death.
Pyroluria is a blood disease that results from the defective synthesis of hemoglobin in the blood. The disease results in massive excretion of zinc and a build-up of copper. Hemoglobin is that all-important molecule of the blood made of iron and proteins that transports binds to and transports oxygen and carbon-dioxide to and from every cell in the body. It makes up 96% of a red blood cell’s dry mass, approximately 15g per liter of blood. During the creation of this molecule, a waste product called kryptopyrrole is also synthesized. Usually this molecule is benign and the body excretes it through urine, but when certain genes are activated it binds to zinc, vitamin B6, and Omega 6’s. This prevents these critical components from being used in synthesis, and they are excreted along with the kryptopyrrole.
According to KenHub, the blood consists of cells, cell fragment and an aqueous solution(plasma).45% of blood are red blood cells, white blood cell and platelets and the rest are plasma which consists of water, plasma protein and
Media coverage of such cases have made the public less comfortable with the idea of moving further towards nuclear power and they only opt for reducing human activities to reduce global warming. It is true that there have been some notable disasters involving nuclear power, but compared to other power systems, nuclear power has an impressive track record. First, it is less harmful and second, it will be able to cater for the growing world population. Nuclear power produces clean energy and it delivers it at a cost that is competitive in the energy market (Patterson). According to the US Energy Information Administration, there are currently 65 such plants in the Unite States (National Research Council). They produce 19 percent of the total US energy generation.
Factories and transportation depend on huge amounts of fuel--billions of tons of coal and oil are consumed around the world every year. When these fuels burn they introduce smoke and other, less visible, by-products into the atmosphere.