Danger blowing hot drink

Explanation Danger Blow Food and Hot Drinks

All that has to school certainly understand, humans breathe breathe oxygen or O2, and exhale carbon dioxide, or CO2. When we blow the food, of course, that we spend is CO2. While the food was still steaming hot water (H2O). According to the chemical reaction, when the water vapor reacts with carbon dioxide to form carbonic acid compounds (carbonic acid) which are acidic.

H2O + CO2 => H2CO3

We need to know that there was blood in H2CO3 which allows you to adjust the pH (acidity) in the blood. Blood is a buffer (solution which can maintain pH) with a weak acid to form H2CO3 and HCO3 conjugate base form so that blood has a pH of 7.35 to 7.45 with the following reaction:
CO2 + H20 HCO3- + H +

The body uses a pH buffer (buffer) in the blood as a protection against the changes that occur suddenly in blood pH. Abnormalities in the pH control mechanism, can lead to one of two major abnormalities in acid-base balance, ie acidosis or alkalosis.

Acidosis is a condition where the blood has too much acid (or too little base) and often causes decreased blood pH.

While alkalosis is a condition where the blood has too much base (or too little acid) and sometimes causes increased blood pH.

Back again to the initial problem, where our food inflatable, and carbon dioxide from our mouths will bind with the moisture of the food and produce carbonic acid which will affect the level of acidity in our blood that will lead to a condition where the blood we will be more acidic than it should so decreased blood pH, this situation is known as acidosis.


Along with the decrease in the pH of the blood, breathing becomes deeper and faster as the body's attempt to reduce excess acid in the blood by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide.

In the end, the kidneys also tried to compensate for this situation by removing the more acidic the water kemih.Tetapi both mechanisms would be useless if the body constantly produces too much acid, resulting in severe acidosis. In line with the worsening acidosis, the patient began to feel an incredible fatigue, drowsiness, nausea and experiencing more confusion. If acidosis worsens, blood pressure may fall, causing shock, coma and even death.