it means that he has too much acid this is called acidosis acid formerly defined as the concentration of hydrogen ion and osis referring to a disorder an acid disorder bringing us to the essential oils of his mother that he accidentally drank some essential oils probably won't cause problems if you drink them but some of them are extreme extracts of things that are fine to put on the skin but the moment that they get ingested and absorbed into the body they become poison megan used wintergreen oil as an arthritis remedy and that's great it does an awesome job at that because the active ingredient contained therein is methyl salicylate the salicylate moiety you might recognize from the chemical name of aspirin acetylsalicylic acid in the body they become the same salicylate and this is one of the most common over-the-counter therapies even pepto-bismol is known as spismoth sub-salicylate you can even find salicylic acid in face wash this makes sense with megan's use aspirin is an anti-inflammatory medicine it's how it relieves pain you could apply it onto the skin where some of it gets absorbed or you can take tablets of it by mouth the problem is wintergreen oil is really concentrated the bottle that bb drank has the equivalent of at least NUMBER_TOKEN big aspirin tablets just a third of this bottle alone can be fatal if taken by mouth and a child and bibi drank three times that fatal dose because he drank the entire bottle even though bb can't tell doctors what had happened their findings from examining him give them some more clues the interesting thing about the body is that it regulates acid-base balance quickly through breathing we inhale oxygen but we exhale carbon dioxide and this brings us back to bicarbonate the blood delivers oxygen all throughout the body so what we breathe in goes from our lungs right into our blood but blood is made of water and if we're trying to put oxygen into it by inhaling then it means at the same time carbon dioxide is in the blood ready to get exchanged out through exhaling the reason why this is important is because when carbon dioxide is dissolved in water it exists as a balanced system with bicarbonate and acid this tells the medical team a lot about what's happening in bb he has low bicarbonate in his blood meaning that there's more acid than base going backwards in the understanding of blood he's breathing fast meaning that his body is desperately trying to push excess carbon dioxide out as a way to fix the acidosis but things keep getting worse bibi falls unconscious in the hospital as he's admitted in as doctors take another blood test they find that he now has acidemia it's not just low base presence in blood now but there's an acid presence in blood meaning that it's starting to spill all throughout his body but where is this acid coming from this brings us back to bb's fever when energy is consumed heat is created when the body consumes a lot more energy than it can create then a lot of heat gets generated leading to potential hyperthermia high body temperature but why is this happening inside the cells there's a powerhouse called the mitochondria it generates energy in the form of atp by using electricity the movement of positive and negative charges just like you see
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