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Hyperventilation Alternative Treatment
If this is the first time this happens, we must see a doctor to detect whether due to physical illness is the result of anxiety.
To increase the amount of CO2 in the lungs, it must ensure that the breathing becomes regular and rapid, breathing slowly and in a less superficial. You can breathe through pursed lips, or cover your mouth and one nostril, breathing through left uncovered. Also do any relaxing activity.
If the doctor feels that hyperventilation is anxiety, stress or panic, can be raised, in their own homes, the levels of carbon dioxide in the blood, which will end most of the symptoms.
There are several ways to relax your breathing:
1. where possible, have a family member or friend to forward peace;
2. take in less oxygen through pursed lips, covering her mouth and one nostril;
3. in situations of anxiety or panic, is needed psychological or psychiatric care;
4. it is advisable to learn breathing exercises that help you relax and breathe from your diaphragm and abdomen, rather than from the chest wall;
5. contribute relaxation techniques regularly, such as progressive muscle relaxation or meditation, while exercising regularly.
If these methods do not prevent you hyperventilate, the doctor may recommend a beta blocker medication.
When to call
• If you breathe rapidly for the first time.
• Presence of pain, fever or bleeding.
• When hyperventilation continues or gets worse even with home treatment.
• If other symptoms descompensatorios.
Hyperventilation Symptoms
Hyperventilation: EXCESSIVE BREATHING TREATMENT REQUIRED physical or psychological
Hyperventilation is breathing too much above the needs of our body. Surge to breathe quickly and deeply; overbreathe; breathe shallowly with shortness of breath, taking large gulps of air or breathing rapidly.
When you hyperventilate, the balance between O2 and CO2 breaks: O2 levels of CO2 increase and decrease. The balance in the lungs of both gases directly influences their proportions in blood and, therefore, come two circumstances:
a) The lack of CO2 in the blood is detected by the brain, which immediately tries to remedy this situation. The best and quickest way to achieve this is by reducing the urge to breathe, so that considerably lower amounts of inspired O2 and CO2 expired.
It is normal for us to be scared, especially if we do not know why it happens. While we breathe more than you need, our body reacts breathing difficult, so we feel the sensation of breathlessness. This phenomenon is not at all dangerous, but can be experienced as quite unpleasant.
b) The lowering of CO2 in the blood, producing an alteration of the pH of our blood.
A good balance of the two gases in the blood causes the pH (measure of acidity or basicity of hydrogen) is maintained constant to perform their duties in an optimum manner. If the balance is broken, the blood becomes alkaline. Then, you will experience:
-Tingling;
-Ramps (unbalanced muscles);
-Dizziness;
“Sensations of heat or cold;
-Muscle tension;
-Weak legs;
-Impaired vision;
-Palpitations;
-Tremors.
These symptoms, while annoying, do not indicate danger or there is something wrong in our body.
Hyperventilation

What is hyperventilation and what to do when it happens?
One of the most frightening experiences in which someone can happen is a fit of hyperventilation.
It is a terrifying feeling of suffocation that forces the sufferer to breathe quickly and deeply. This symptom-ing some time, real-mind leaves a person with a sense of lack of oxygen.
Why should this symptom?
The Feeling very anxious or having a panic attack are the most common reasons why you may experience hyperventilation. However, the rapid breathing may be a symptom-making of an underlying disease such as coronary or lung disorder, bleeding or infection.
Hyperventilation is common in young adults. It is more common in women, although it is also common in men. Read the rest of this entry »