What If You Jumped Into a Pool Full of Stomach Acid?

What If You Jumped Into a Pool Full of Stomach Acid?

It is as resistant as battery acid and can melt steel. But he lives inside us and helps digest our food. This is acid of the stomach.

Is stomach acid dangerous? If it's so powerful, why does not it hurt us? And what would happen if we jump into a pool full of things?

That is true. The stomach acid is compared to the battery acid in terms of the damage it can cause. It can go from 1 to 3 on the pH scale, which means it is extremely acidic.

This is because the stomach acid is hydrochloric acid, a highly corrosive substance. The reason he can live inside us is due to a special mucous membrane lining our stomach. But what would happen if we covered all the skin?

Now, before we jump into a pool filled with stomach acid, we must first understand how we could fill an entire pool. Suppose we swim in an average 6 × 6 meter pool that can hold about 55,000 liters of fluid. A stomach can produce up to 1.5 liters of stomach acid a day. So, to fill an entire pool, we need the stomach of more than 50,000 people.

Okay, we found 50,000 volunteers who helped us fill this pool. Before you even dive, you will notice the terrible smell.

Whenever there is an excess of acid in your digestive tract, it can cause a stench in your breathing. So multiply that number by 50,000 and you'll get an idea of ​​the atrocity of the pool. You would be surrounded by a horrible smell of bad breath.

And that even before you jump in it. As soon as you take the plunge, you will feel stung in the eyes and nostrils.

To get an idea of ​​what this might look like, have you ever had lemon juice thrown in your eyes? It would be similar to this because lemon juice and stomach acid have a similar pH.

But if you remember to bring your goggles and nose plugs, you may be able to avoid this part. What is much less preventable is that stomach acid comes into contact with your skin.

When this happens, it immediately causes a slight irritation. Fortunately, the epidermal layer of your skin should be able to protect you before it starts to hurt too much.

If you jump into the pool and come back outside, even with skin all covered with stomach acid, you would go relatively well, apart from mild irritation. As long as you remove the acid with soap, water, and a towel, everything will be fine. But what if you stay much longer in the acid of the stomach?

If you do not go out right away, the acid will slowly eat away your skin. This would eventually leave you covered with second and third-degree burns. If you can not cover your eyes while swimming, you slowly lose your vision and become blind. And your nose would dissolve from the inside if the acid touched it for a long.

Oh, and if you inadvertently swallow some of it, you will inevitably vomit it along with everything you ate earlier in the day.

So no, do not try that. It is best to leave the stomach acid where it belongs, and what it contains in us, digesting our food.