Benefits and Harms of Hydrocarbons in medicine/health

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 Benefits: 

  • Medicinal uses for halogenated hydrocarbons include anesthetics such as halothane, propellants for inhalers, and chloral hydrate for sedation. Refrigerants such as Freon are mixtures of halogenated hydrocarbons.
  • The use of hydrocarbons in the field of medicine is in oil supplements, vaccines, injections, and pills. These structures by themselves aren't very useful in medicine, but they can be modified in reactions so that you can add useful functional groups to them to form pharmaceutical drugs.


 Harms: 

  • Hydrocarbon poisoning such as that of benzene and petroleum usually occurs accidentally by inhalation or ingestion of these cytotoxic chemical compounds.
  • When a hydrocarbon gets into the stomach, it usually passes through the body with little more than burping and an episode of diarrhea. However, if it enters the lungs, it can cause a pneumonia-like condition; irreversible, permanent lung damage; and even death.
  • Some hydrocarbons can cause other effects, including coma, seizures, irregular heart rhythms or damage to the kidneys or liver.







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