Acute radiation sickness is due to exposure to high levels of radiation. Radiation from atoms could be through a small particle of matter or as a wave. Acute radiation sickness occurs when high-energy radiation destroys your body cells.
Causes and Evaluation of Acute Radiation Sickness
New York (USA), June 26, 2013
Causes of Acute Radiation Sickness
Acute radiation sickness is due to exposure to high levels of radiation. Sources of high-level radiation include:
– Attack on nuclear industrial facility
– Accident at nuclear industrial facility
– Detonation of a standard nuclear weapon
– Detonation of a small radioactive device
– Detonation of conventional explosive device containing radioactive material
– Exposure to excessive radiation for medical treatments
Radiation from atoms could be through a small particle of matter or as a wave. Radiation is of two main types:
1. Penetrating or Ionizing Radiation: As the name suggests, radiation probes deep within your body, damages, and kills body cells.
2. Non-Penetrating or Non-Ionizing Radiation: Such radiation does not pass through your skin. Excessive non-penetrating radiation could burn your skin similar to sunburns.
Normally, a low-dose radiation as occurring during X-Ray examination does not cause acute radiation sickness.
Evaluation of Acute Radiation Sickness
Acute radiation sickness occurs when high-energy radiation destroys your body cells. Body cells that are most susceptible to such damage include bone marrow cells that produce blood and cells lining intestinal tract including your stomach. Young children and pregnant ladies are severely affected by acute radiation sickness.
Sometimes radiation affects your genes. Such effect is seen only later in life often in the form of cancer. Sometimes, radiation exposure could affect your later generations in the form of inherent birth defects.
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