Recently, the media has been aggressively reporting about North Korea developing nuclear weapons, which can harm other countries and even the whole world. Are you asking what the dangers can be due to the effects of radiation on the human body?
Effects of Radiation on the Human Body
If you think the effects of radiation can turn a person’s body into a mutant like in the X-Men movies or turn into the Hulk, it’s unlikely that will happen.
The effects of radiation are always closely related to mutations, what does mutation mean? Mutations are changes in genetic material or DNA nor RNA both at the gene and chromosomal level.
When radiation damages DNA, in most cases, the body is able to repair the damage, but if the damage is too severe and the cell is unable to repair it, the cell may die. If a lot of cells die, it triggers an inflammatory response or inflammation in an attempt to destroy and get rid of the attacking agent and then repair the affected tissue as a form of body recovery.
This is what happens when, for example, you are exposed to radiation from the sun or sunburn. Sunburn includes the effects of radiation on the human body.
Of course, the body’s defense against radiation is not always perfect. Sometimes cells with damage to their DNA are unable to repair and dispose of the damaged or dead cells. in the long term it can be harmful especially if the damage affects cell growth.
In this case, the cells can later form a tumor, either cancer or something else. This is why, for the past few decades, experts have warned people to stop ignoring prolonged exposure to the sun as it can cause cancer.
Once there was an event called “The Demon Core” which was caused by the effects of radiation.
In 1946, Canadian physicist Louis Slotkin died after a critical period of 9 days due to an incident in which he was exposed to more than 5 times the lethal dose of neutron radiation.
Three other men were hospitalized for radiation poisoning. some had cataracts and neurological problems, but twenty years later they died of heart attacks. The next two who lived close to the source of the incident, aged 19 and 27 respectively, both died from conditions believed to be related to the crash.
The conclusion is that if a person is exposed to a low dose of radiation, the body is still able to repair it. But if a person recovers from the radiation, there is a possibility of getting the risk of cancer or diseases that attack body tissues.
If you ask what happens to the offspring of someone who has been exposed to radiation? Don’t you imagine that his child has superhero abilities, of course it is impossible or it could be that his child was born with two heads or the like. Actually it has nothing to do why? because it is not a result of the effects of radiation but an error when the cell division process is not perfect.
If a person is exposed to high doses of radiation, that person is likely to die not because he is mutated. But because too many cells are damaged because the body is not able to repair the damaged tissue
Most of the mutations that occur have a negative impact, but there are also mutations that are actually beneficial and beneficial as in the post about mutations that are beneficial to humans
