feel the Chemicals COLLIDE ♥♥♥♥♥

feel the Chemicals COLLIDE ♥♥♥♥♥

Curious about my title? haha I'm not Inlove nor Broken-hearted, well it's just because when I'm doing this blog im listening to the music "COLLIDE" by Howie Day.  I Connect the word Collide with the topic that was given to us.. well do you have idea if what is that??? its about TOXICOLOGY!!

P.S : You can listen to the music by clicking the music box above :))

 

First of all what is the meaning of Collide and Toxicology?

Collide means "Hit with force when moving" or "Be incompatible; be or come into conflict" so it's obvious why i connect it with toxicology. well you might be asking why because Toxicology is the Study of Poisons. It is the study of conflicting effects of physical agents or chemicals on living organisms. 

So when two chemicals interact with biological interaction they collide with each other.They produce adverse effects with each other, they are incompatible with each other.

 Let's Think about this qoutation:

“All substances are poisons, there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.” (Paracelsus, 1493-1541)

Based from the quotation we are surrounded by poisons, everything that is too much for us is poison, we must be careful in the proper usage so that it will bring the good effect to us and not the bad one. 

 

Let see the brief history of Toxicology...

Toxicology began with the Cave dwellers, and because they live in caves their primary source of living is hunting animals,they use plant extracts that are poisonous and place it in their spears/arrow/hunting material. etc  

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                            POISONOUS PLANTS

There is also in the history the story of the King Mithridates VI of Pontus.  When Mithridates VI was at last defeated by Pompey and in danger of capture by Rome, he is alleged to have attempted suicide by poison; this attempt failed, however, because of his immunity to the poison

THE ROYAL TOXICOLOGIST - MITHRIDATES VI "MITRIDATUM"

 

Some of the famous  poisoning victim are Claudius, Cleopatra and Socrates.

 

 

 

  Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila , a Spanish physician. He was the founder of toxicology.

 

 

 

 

Toxicity can be broken into 2 Categories :

acute toxicity 

it pertains to the fast development of symptoms after taking in high dosage of toxicant. 
 

chronic toxicity 

it pertains to the effect of long exposure to low dosage of toxicant. you can get it via the traces of pesticides in air, food etc.

There are also two general types of toxic effect:

Lethal Effects: resulting in the death of humans

Sub-lethal Effects: other effects not directly resulting in death

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Types of Damage cause by toxic chemicals

Carcinogenesis- caused by the induction of CANCER!

Mutagenesis - Genetic Damage

Physiological damage- Damage to the health of organism. it can be reversible or irreversible.

Teratogenesis- Can cause Death of the Fetus or Birth Defects.

So that's the very brief start of Toxicology... Now in the modern time the study of  toxicology  is very broad and scientist are studying of a way to fully understand toxicology. Now lets talk about the branches of toxicology.....

 

      MODERN DAY  BRANCHES OF TOXICOLOGY

♥Pharmacology 

do you still know what this means???  Pharmacology is the concerned with the study of drug action within the body. it comes from the greek word  φάρμακον, pharmakon, "poison" in classic Greek; "drug" in modern Greek; and -λογία, -logia "study of", "knowledge of.

Specifically it focuses on the interaction between the living and chemicals that can affect their biochemical function. 

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                      Solid Pharmacology | Comprehensive, Interactive, Clinically Relevant Reviews

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♥ Pesticide toxicology

It focuses on how the pesticides can enter and harm the body. Pesticides can enter the body by oral exposure, Dermal exposure and Inhalation exposure.

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♥ General toxicology

General toxicology is all about  safety assessment studies for chemical, agrochemical, pharmaceutical and consumer product industries.

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♥ Occupational Toxicology

 it deals with the effect to toxic chemicals etc. on workers. it evaluates adverse health effects that affect workers when working.

 ♥ Environmental Toxicology

it focuses on the effects of chemicals, physical agent on living organism and on the environment. 
 
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i correlated some of the lyrics of the song Collide to my Finale :))

"Even the best fall down sometimes, Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind, somehow find you and I collide"


--- "Even the best fall down sometimes" means that even if they give you the very best if you are not taking it correctly nothing will happen, it may worsen the situation or something not good will happen to you...


"Even the wrong words seem to rhyme, Out of the doubt that fills my mind"  it means that when you take a medicine that is not right sometimes it gives you a feeling like everything is okay, example when you are depressed or nervous you take Alcohol and cigarette you feel that you can do everything or you have forgotten your nervousness or problem but in reality it's not.

"somehow find you and I collide" then at the last phase you just realized that taking that drugs is not right and it has brought you a more bigger problem and just worsen the situation. 

So Studying Toxicology is important for us to know the right thing to do and how to minimize the chance of being poisoned, being overdosed and to know the importance of taking the right dosage to cure our illness and not be DEAD!!

thank you for reading :)

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