Have you ever tripped in public. Has someone ever pointed out that you had something on your face in from of everyone?? Has your pants zipper ever been unzippered. Have you ever had a bad hair day? Did mom or dad ever come grab you out of a party? Has your top or bottom ever fallen off in the ocean after getting hit by a wave? Ever slip on a banana peel? Anyway a lot things are reasons why people get embarrassed in life.
One of the main reasons why people blush is because they are embarrassed about something. Blushing is basically when a persons face turns red after being embarrassed or while they are being embarrassed.
Another thing that goes hand in hand when it comes to a person blushing as Adrenaline. Adrenaline is a substance that is released into the body of a person who is feeling a strong emotion.( Merriam -Webster). Adrenaline is actually the thing that triggers the person to turn red when blushing. What happens is that adrenaline dilates(open up) a persons blood vessels which leads to a persons blood to flow.” When a person is embarrassed the veins in their face responds to a signal called the adenylyl cyclase. This then allows the vein to dilate and that is when the reddening in the face begins.” (How things work).
Another thing that is important when it comes to a person blushing is the system that this feeling comes from. When it comes to different emotions in our body, they’re are different parts of the brain that work with those different feelings. When it comes to a person feeling in embarrassed the system that works with this is the sympathetic nervous system. “This system is also called the fight -or flight response. When it comes to this system, everything that happens is basically involuntary, meaning a person does things without thinking. So a person doesn’t think to plus when they get embarrassed it just happens on its own completely. ” ( Howthingswork).
There are other ways that a person can start blushing for example when they drink alcohol. There is an actual fear that people endure because of blushing. This fear is called erythrophobia ( the fear of blushing. People actually can get surgery done for their blushing to be lessened. Certain nerves in a persons spine are actually snipped to limit this blushing. Blushing just something that we cannot control, and it happens once in awhile when we are in an awkward situation.
I personally think blushing is a very fascinating thing. I think it is fascinating that our bodies just do things on our own by the way we react to things or how we are feeling at the moment. How the different systems in our bodies just connect so well, that it can tell another part of it to do something else.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/blush1.htm
To be honest I have heard blushing and flushing being used as the same term. The difference I think that there is between blushing flushing that with flushing the entire face and I believe some areas of the neck become red as well. I did look up that with. I also read up quickly that flushing can occur for other reasons as well, but overall I do think they could possibly be the same thing.
Blushing may appear very pedestrian however one time I was watching an episode on Grey’s Anatomy and learned about the medical condition, ereuthrophobia hyperpyrexia. I had never heard about it prior but it is when someone excessively blushes. I didn’t realize that some people have to be put on medication to help control it in public situations. In the episode I was watching they had to go as far as surgically operating on the patient to help her. In the article, http://www.hyperhidrosis-usa.com/facial_blushing.html, I read about how “Dr. Nielson has found that persistence of any sympathetic nerve innervation across the second rib level, just above the T2 ganglion, plays a significant role in persistent sweating conditions of the face after undergoing a T2. T3, or T4 sympathectomy.” I had no clue on how much our nerves affect our ordinary actions.
Olivia, do you think it may be possible that adrenaline plays a factor in blushing, or being flushed during exercise? Or are blushing and flushing two different things?