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Can heavy breathing endanger my health? Why does this symptom appear? Does this indicate serious medical conditions? Could it be the effect of overwork and fatigue? The question is answered by the drug. Katarzyna Darecka.
Can heavy breathing be detrimental to your health?
Hello, he teases me sometimes heavy breathing. I have trouble catching breath and sometimes heavy breathing feels like short of breath, as if I have run at least a marathon. I also admit that lately I have a lot of nerves – my daughter is in the hospital and since then I have been very nervous about her health. I am in the hospital every day, but the heavy breathing began to bother me. Is heavy breathing harmful to your health?
What causes might be behind a heavy breathing? Should I get tests? Honestly, I don’t even know what tests to do, who to report to and what my problem may be. While my daughter is sick, I don’t want to put more trouble on her shoulders and I didn’t tell her that I had breathing problem. What would I worry her if it might not be anything dangerous. At least I hope so. I’m going to rest and lie down at the weekend, maybe it’s just a matter of tiredness. Nevertheless, please let me know if heavy breathing is dangerous to your health. Thank you. Regards.
The doctor explains the health effects of heavy breathing
Feeling of “heavy breathing” is often described as breathlessness and is a subjective feeling of ‘lack of air’. It is a fairly common symptom of various diseases of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, anemia, muscular and nervous disorders, obesity. Dyspnoea can be a symptom of many dangerous diseases, so it should not be taken lightly.
The most common causes of breathlessness include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease, heart failure. Depending on when there is shortness of breath, how long it lasts, how sudden these symptoms are, what causes it, or something helps to relieve the feeling of breathlessness, from the severity and accompanying symptoms, the occurrence of smoking – the doctor decides on the ordered tests based on the exact interview and physical examination of the patient.
Depending on the results of the test, the doctor may order tests such as: morphology, glucose, creatinine, electrolytes, TSH, spirometry, pulse oximetry during exercise, chest X-ray, electrocardiography, NT-pro BNP. Depending on the results of the above-mentioned tests, the doctor may order further diagnostics, e.g. methacholine or histamine provocation test, pulmonary gas diffusion capacity test (DLCO), high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the chest, echocardiography.
Do causes of acute dyspnea may include respiratory tract infections, severe allergic reaction, asthma attack, foreign body in the respiratory tract, pulmonary embolism, pleural fluid, heart attack.
However, if the tests exclude all causes of dyspnea, the physician should also take into account the possible psychiatric causes of dyspnea, e.g. anxiety disorders, anger, pain, depressive disorders. Patients with hyperventilation syndrome often describe symptoms such as “hunger for air” or the inability to take a deep breath.
Despite the possible causes of dyspnea on a psychiatric basis organic causes should be ruled out first, so you should see a First Contact Doctor or if shortness of breath occurs suddenly, severely, is accompanied by chest pain, sudden appearance of skin or gastrointestinal symptoms, you should call the emergency services as soon as possible.
– Lek. Katarzyna Darecka
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