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How to Test for Mold in Humans
According to the Mold Tests website, more than 10 million Americans are sick with mold related illnesses. Many don’t even know why they are sick or have been misdiagnosed. Consult your family doctor if...
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How to Stop Using Nasal Spray
According to "The New York Times," doctors have recognized a condition called rhinitis medicamentosa since 1946. This condition, more commonly called rebound congestion, is a stuffiness or blockage of...
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How to Remove Nasal Polyps
Nasal polyps are benign growths of cells that can appear on the lining of the nasal passages and sinuses. They tend to be teardrop-shaped, and while smaller polyps can go unnoticed, larger ones can...
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Differences Between Oxygen Tanks & Oxygen Concentrators
Oxygen tanks and oxygen concentrators are prescribed by doctors for patients needing oxygen therapy. Oxygen therapy assists with certain respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary...
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What Does Aspiration Mean in Connection With Your Lungs?
Aspiration simply means that foreign material such as vomit, food or liquid is inhaled or blown into the trachea or lungs. Aspiration can cause a person to have aspiration pneumonia as well as other...
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Definition of Focal Consolidation
Focal consolidation is a term you might hear in a discussion between medical professionals if you are receiving any type of chest imaging. It refers to a visible condition in the lungs.
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Nebulizer Alternatives
A nebulizer is a machine that converts liquid medicine into a mist that can be easily inhaled into the lungs. Nebulizers are used to treat moderate-to-severe cases of chronic airway diseases, including...
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Causes of Trouble Breathing Through the Mouth
Many diseases or conditions can cause trouble breathing through the mouth, and many of these cases can be severe and require treatment. Any difficulty breathing usually requires some type of medical...
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How to Stop Your Nose From Whistling
A nose that whistles every time you take a breath can be irritating to you, your friends and loved ones. The relentless, grating, high-pitched sound drives many nose-whistlers, or those around them, to...
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How to Read Pulmonary Function Test Results
A pulmonary function test, or a spirometry test, is used to evaluate your lungs' airflow and capacity. During the test, you breathe into a device called a spirometer in a variety of ways, including...
View ArticleHow to Troubleshoot an EverFlo Respironics Alarm
Normal room air is composed of approximately 21 percent oxygen. The EverFlo Respironics device concentrates and filters normal room air. This device is used by those who need additional oxygen to...
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How to Reset a ResMed CPAP
ResMed's sleep therapy systems are built for ease of use in order to encourage patient compliance. Data cards with two-way information download and patient monitoring enable easy transfer of...
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What Is a Primary Complex?
Primary complex is a type of tuberculosis infection that most often occurs in children. The focus of the initial infection is a small area in the lungs and lymph nodes.
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How a Water Seal Drainage System Works
Water seal drainage systems, or chest drainage systems, treat medical problems in the body's pleural cavity -- the space around the lungs. The device uses a chest tube and multiple bottles or chambers...
View ArticleAirlife Spirometer Instructions
An incentive volumetric spirometer is a breathing therapy tool primarily used following surgery to keep the lungs active and reduce the incidence of pneumonia, pneumothorax and a permanent decrease in...
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How to Inhale Steam
Individuals suffering from a range of conditions such as the common cold, laryngitis and sinusitis can benefit from the powerful healing properties of steam. Steam reduces congestion by opening nasal...
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Differences Between a CPAP Machine & an Oxygen Concentrator
In a sense, oxygen concentrators and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices do the same thing: they keep a patient's blood oxygen levels within acceptable limits. But the similarity ends...
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Factors Affecting Oxygen Saturation
Oxygen saturation is the body's ability, or more specifically the ability of the hemoglobin on the red blood cells, to carry oxygen. Your oxygen level can be measured with a device called a pulse...
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How to Clear Your Throat at Night
It's difficult to sleep at night if you have mucus clogging your breathing passages and making it difficult to breathe. The best way to get a good night's sleep and circumnavigate any needless waking...
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Aspiration Precautions & Signs
Aspiration occurs when a foreign object is sucked down a person's windpipe, causing the person trouble breathing. Food and liquid, when they enter a person's respiratory system, can sometimes pass the...
View ArticleHow to Get Off of Oxygen-Assisted Breathing
Oxygen-assisted breathing is a great aid when necessary, but it can be a burden to remain on oxygen for too long. Lugging around an oxygen tank is a hassle and, if your insurance does not cover it,...
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Reasons for Flaring Nostrils
Nasal flaring, which occurs when the opening of someone's nose enlarges, is a sign that someone is expending increased effort to breathe or is having difficulty breathing. Although it often occurs as a...
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How to Use a Venturi Mask
Supplemental oxygen is an important aspect of supportive care, both in the hospital and at home. A Venturi mask -- also known as an air-entrainment mask -- is a medical oxygen delivery mask that...
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What Causes Double Breathing After Crying?
Double breathing after crying is a symptom of acute hyperventilation. Hyperventilation is a common side effect of crying, panic attacks or episodes of emotional stress. While double breathing after...
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What Are the Causes of Bilateral Pleural Thickening?
The pleural cavity, in humans, refers to the body cavity that surrounds the lungs. This cavity is composed of a bi-layered membrane termed pleura. Bilateral pleural thickening refers to thickening of...
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COPD & Social Security Disability
Social Security's disability insurance will pay a monthly benefit if you suffer from a chronic illness that prevents you from finding or keeping gainful employment. You pay for the insurance with your...
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What Are the Parts of a Spirometer?
A spirometer is a medical tool used to measure the amount of air a person pushes out of their lungs while exhaling. It can be used both as a diagnostic tool and as a mode of treatment to improve the...
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How to Raise Your Blood Oxygen Level
Oxygen is a gas necessary to support human life. The human body uses oxygen as a source of energy. "Blood oxygen level" and "oxygen saturation" are terms used interchangeably to describe the...
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Causes of Coughing After Eating or Drinking
At some point or another, most people have experienced an episode of coughing following a meal or having a drink. While the rare or occasional coughing fit may be uncomfortable or even embarrassing, it...
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How to Keep an Oxygen Line From Tangling
Supplemental oxygen is often required following an illness or chronic disease. It is stored in a tank and delivered into the nose through cannula -- small tubes that fit in each nostril. Tubing...
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How to Write an ABG
Doctors use an arterial blood gas (ABG) test to determine a patient's ability to take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. The ABG test results indicate the pH, partial pressure of carbon dioxide and...
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Foods That Affect Mucus Production
Excess mucus can make respiratory conditions even worse and can also be a burden to those that are healthy but have come down with something causing extra phlegm and congestion. Knowing what foods to...
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How to Calculate Oxygen Tank Duration
Oxygen tanks support individuals with respiratory disorders or individuals who need continuous oxygen as a result of a temporary illness or accident. Each tank carries a finite amount of oxygen. For...
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Ventilator Settings & Alarms
General guidelines for selecting individual ventilator settings are initially determined by the attending physician or a respiratory therapist if ventilator protocols are in place. These parameters are...
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How to Adjust the Pressure on the ResMed S8 Compact CPAP
CPAP (Continuous positive airway pressure) is a treatment method for respiratory disorders such as sleep apnea. During sleep the airways collapse, resulting in shallow breathing or short pauses. The...
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How to Calculate Oxygen Amount According to Liter Flow
If you have breathing problems, supplemental oxygen is an important part of your medical plan. Whether you are on oxygen temporarily or everyday, how much oxygen you get is vital to your well-being....
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Can You Become Addicted to Oxygen Use?
Some medical conditions require patients to receive medical oxygen rather than relying on the amount of oxygen received by breathing regular air. Like most other medical treatments, the use of oxygen...
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What Does PEEP Do in Ventilation?
In respiratory arrest or respiratory failure a person no longer can breathe on their own, requiring mechanical ventilation for temporary support. Numerous ventilator modes have been implemented over...
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What Is Mild Hyperinflation?
The term "hyperinflation" can refer to either money, when inflation rises uncontrollably, or to a medical condition of the lungs when they are abnormally expanded. However, "mild hyperinflation" can...
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How to Avoid a Scratchy Throat in the Morning
Allergies, viruses, infections, dehydration and sinus problems can all cause a scratchy throat in the morning. If you frequently wake up with a painful, dry-feeling throat, there are some steps you can...
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How to Calculate the Results From a Spirometer Lab
Spirometry, the measurement of volumes of air moving into and out of the respiratory system, helps doctors detect and treat respiratory diseases. A spirometer contains a mouthpiece attached to a volume...
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How to Decongest Using a Bowl of Hot Water
Congestion, whether seasonal, situational or due to a medical condition can cause you to feel under the weather. Clearing a stuffy head, blocked sinuses or even just simple upper respiratory congestion...
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How to Use Medrol for Chronic Bronchitis
Methylprednisolone is a corticosteroid medication sold under the brand name Medrol in the United States and Canada. Medrol is commonly prescribed to treat inflammatory conditions such as asthma, immune...
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How to Stop a Throat From Closing Up Due to Swelling
Generally, a swollen throat is a sign of a cold, influenza or other infections caused by bacteria or viruses such as mononucleosis. Food allergies can trigger swelling as can outside irritants such as...
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How to Wean Out of a Medically Induced Coma
Weaning a patient from barbiturate-induced coma is a very complex medical procedure. An induced coma acts to protect the brain from further stress and damage caused by major neurosurgery or from status...
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How to Repair Lungs From Smoking
Stopping smoking is the best thing you can do for your lungs, so congratulations on taking that first step. After three months of not smoking, your lung capacity can increase by 30 percent, and within...
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What Is it That Wakes You Up With a Feeling That You Can't Breathe?
There are many factors that can affect breathing and create shortness of breath. Stress and anxiety can be responsible for shallow breathing; cardiovascular disease, respiratory obstructions and lung...
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How to Get Rid of Small Food Particles Caught in the Throat
Lodged food particles cause discomfort no matter how small they are. Inflammation, improper chewing, illness and injury are all reasons that contribute to small particles of food becoming lodged in the...
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How to Listen to Lung Sounds
Auscultation refers to the process of listening to the sounds inside the body, including the lungs, to diagnose problems. Using a stethoscope, a doctor can listen to bronchial and vesicular breathing....
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Foods That Cause Mucus Build-up
Mucus build-up plagues people during a post-nasal drip, cold or flu, sinusitis, tonsillitis, strep throat, catarrh, laryngitis, chicken pox, measles, mononucleosis, whooping cough or croup. Allergies...
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