Acute Radiation Sickness – Signs and Symptoms

Signs and Symptoms of Acute Radiation Sickness

New York (USA), June 26, 2013

Acute Radiation Sickness: Signs and Symptoms

Signs and symptoms of acute radiation sickness depend on these factors:

– Amount of radiation absorbed
– Distance between you and radiation source
– Strength of radiated energy
– Whether radiation is internal or external
– Whether radiation affected entire body or specific body parts only
– Method of receiving radiation, whether through exposure to radiation beams, ingestion with food or water, or by breathing in radioactive material

Signs and symptoms of acute radiation sickness include:

– Nausea
– Headache
– Vomiting blood
– Breathlessness
– Diarrhea
– Fatigue
– Dry cough
– Burns on body
– Bleeding from anywhere under the skin like mouth, nose, gums, rectum
– Hemorrhage
– Dehydration and fainting
– Worsening of tooth or gum ailments
– Inflammation of mouth and throat
– Rapid heartbeat
– Permanent skin darkening
– Anemia or low red blood cell count
– Hair loss
– Heart inflammation with chest pain
– Fever
– Bloody stool
– Confusion
– Loss of appetite
– Mouth ulcers
– Sticking together of skin
– Low blood pressure
– Wounds taking lot of time to heal

Severity of symptoms is decided by the amount of radiation exposure. Often, after initial bout of symptoms, you pass through a period of no symptoms at all. However, symptoms soon surface with greater intensity. Greater the amount of radiation, more severe will be your symptoms.

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