Hi everybody, welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. First question this week comes from Kirill. Hi, Kiril.

Kiril says, what's the difference between poison and venom? Super good question. So I want to start by talking about venom. So venom is something that comes from an

animal. This is something that happens when the animal bites you or when the animal stings you or when

that happens to another animal. So venom is something that comes out of the animal. Let's say, for

example, a snake bites you. Venom comes out of the animal. Let's say, for example, a snake fights you.

Venom comes out of the animal and goes into your body. It's very deadly. So it could hurt you or it could

even kill you, depending on the type of snake. So venom is used to talk about something that comes

from an animal and that is used when the animal attacks you.

So another example of a venomous animal, meaning an animal that has venom is like a scorpion.

So when a scorpion stings, it can use venom to attack the other thing, whatever that is, a person or another animal. So venom is

something that comes from an animal and that happens when it attacks you or when it attacks

something else. Poison, on the other hand, while it can be in animals, like for example,

frogs, it's something that humans come in contact with,

but not as an attack, usually, hopefully. So if we see something that's labeled poison

or poisonous, meaning it has poison inside it, that means it is dangerous for the human, like to touch

or to drink or to put on the skin.

That means that it can have a negative reaction or it could kill a person or it could kill an animal.

But when things are poisonous, they generally do not attack us.

They are just things that we have in our home.

So, for example, many cleaning products. If we drink them,

it's poisonous. Like that is poison to the body and we could die if that happens. So poison is

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