What can cause you to go into a coma besides brain trauma and overdose?

Answer #1

Kidney failure. When the kidneys fail, it will no longer be able to filter your blood. All the toxins and waste will circulate in your blood stream and eventually reach your brain. In an attempt to save whatever functioning organ there is left, the brain will hibernate and send you to coma.

Liver failure. The liver, much like the kidneys, is a filter organ. Another function of it would be the conversion of uremia (by-product of the proteins that you’ve eaten) into ammonia which could then be flushed out of your body via the poo. When the liver fails, your uremia will not be converted into ammonia and couldn’t be flushed out of your system. In the same manner, uremia will stay in your blood stream and eventually reach the brain. As a response, the meninges (the one that is wrapped around your brain) will inflame. As with kidney failure, your brain will (hopefully) respond by sending you into coma (all your other internal organs will go on autopilot while you’re asleep). Otherwise, you’ll probably be incapacitated for life, or just be dead soon.

Note: The “You” that I’ve been mentioning is, of course, not you, my friend. :)

Answer #2

thanks for the info. can a high fever send you in a coma and if you are in a coma,can you breathe without the tube thingy?

Answer #3

diabetes

Answer #4

High high high fever will eventually cause you [not You, our theoretical patient] to have a convulsion. Of course, you already know what it is (shaky thingy, eyes rolling back, maybe even accompanied by a slimy thingy coming out of your mouth), but a single convulsion won’t send you to coma. HOWEVER, multiple, successive convulsions OR one, massive convulsion (happens when the fever is really really REALLY high) can fry the neurons (brain cells) and have you slip into a coma. It’s a pretty bad one, I should tell you that, because chances are, you’ll either wake up with a lot of malfunctions (can’t use your legs, can’t speak, etc. because of the fried brain cells) or you won’t wake up at all.

About the breathing thingy, it depends on what happened. Some coma patients won’t need the ventilating machine or the tube. But most often, they do. Because our breathing is made possible by the contraction of the diaphragm and the rib muscles. If you got paralyzed, these muscles will hardly even move, making breathing such an impossibility. So you’ll get attached to a mechanical ventilator and let the machine do the breathing for you.

Answer #5

than you

Answer #6

De nada. :)

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