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Breathing Better With COPD

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Doug1253
Doug1253

This is a summary of an item on a US-based web site focusing on health tips for women.

This one suggests, with a doctor’s endorsement, how to develop breathing methods that

will – we hope! – make you more comfortable, and less stressed.

If you breath in through your nose and out through your month, you take in more oxygen and release more carbon dioxide;

Use stomach muscles to help you breath – expanding your diaphragm then letting it relax. Doing so is said to reduce the demand for oxygen. To teach this method, a quoted doctor has the patient lie on their back and work to lift a five-pound weight – or just a hand – to force stomach muscles to work harder. The patient is asked to inhale, trying to move the weight, then exhale through pursed lips. Be prepared to start with a lower-level weight, or less-pressing hand, if necessary.

Exhaling through pursed lips after a heavy inhale, with or without a weight, is said to offer some benefits – probably because muscle-strengthening is a combination process, involving the added pressure from the hard intake of breath and the controlled exhaling.

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  • Outhwaite
    Outhwaite

    Posted

    I had epherdrine tablets too Christine and I remember them giving me hallucinations and making me cry because I thought the ceiling was about 2 inches away from my face and it was like I was in a box...!!! It would have been roughly when I was 4 or 5 years old, I think, round about 1948 or 9. and the walls used to close in as well, making me panic breath...awful stuff...!! If I remember rightly (when I was much older) it was stopped for asmatics as it made your heartbeat very rapid...not good at all..!!
  • heron6
    heron6 Doug1253

    Posted

    Thanks for the advice.  My sweetie has advanced copd.  She agreed to try your methods.

    Heron

     

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