Advantages and disadvantages of oxygen inhalation

Benefits of oxygen inhalation 1. Oxygen inhalation can relieve angina pectoris and prevent the occurrence of myocardial infarction: angina pectoris is caused by acute myocardial hypoxia, which can cause myocardial infarction for more than 30 minutes and is a major risk factor for sudden death of patients. Regular health care and oxygen inhalation or oxygen inhalation at onset can prevent or alleviate the occurrence of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction and buy time for treatment. Second, oxygen inhalation can prevent sudden death of coronary heart disease: sudden death of coronary heart disease is difficult to prevent because of its special onset. Persistent mild brain tightness, shortness of breath, abnormal mood or heart rate disorder often occur before onset. If oxygen therapy can be supplemented at this time, you can get twice the result with half the effort. Third, oxygen inhalation has a good therapeutic effect on asthma: asthma is caused by the weakening of ventilation function between alveoli and the outside world due to bronchospasm. Oxygen inhalation can increase the oxygen concentration in alveoli and help relieve asthma. 4. Oxygen inhalation can effectively treat emphysema, pulmonary heart disease and chronic bronchitis: all the medical records listed are caused by severe hypoxia, and oxygen inhalation can slow down the symptoms of hypoxia and significantly improve the oxygen saturation, which is more effective than simple drug treatment. 5. Oxygen inhalation has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetes: Now research shows that diabetes is related to hypoxia. The capillary pressure of diabetic patients is obviously low, which leads to insufficient oxygen acquisition in tissues and cells, and leads to obstacles in cell function and glucose metabolism. Therefore, the implementation of oxygen therapy for diabetic patients has attracted more and more attention from the medical community. 6. Oxygen inhalation can play a health care role for healthy people: Due to the serious air pollution and the widespread use of air conditioners, regular oxygen inhalation can clean your respiratory system, improve visceral function, improve human comprehensive immunity and prevent various diseases. Elderly people and oxygen inhalation Many senile diseases are chronic diseases. It is impossible to fully recover and return to youth. However, by paying attention to health care, we can alleviate the disease, alleviate the symptoms, avoid the recurrence of the disease, prevent or delay the deterioration of the disease to the maximum extent, and avoid the occurrence of the disease. Geriatric diseases either affect the body's oxygen supply or are caused by hypoxia. In short, most of them are related to oxygen supply. According to a survey of 5278 elderly people over 60 years old in Xicheng District of Beijing, the most common frequently-occurring diseases are hypertension (32.63%), chronic bronchitis (18.3%), coronary heart disease (7.09%) and cerebrovascular disease (6.44%). According to the investigation and analysis of Beijing hospital, most of the elderly aged 65 ~ 70 died of circulatory diseases; Most people over 90 years old die of respiratory diseases. The elderly often suffer from several different diseases, and the prognosis of their complications is very poor. Complications are the main cause of death in the elderly. Oxygen therapy for senile diseases aims at the etiology, pathology and clinical symptoms of common and frequently-occurring diseases in the elderly, and adopts appropriate oxygen therapy means to relieve symptoms, alleviate illness and promote rehabilitation. Ischemic heart disease (coronary heart disease) Coronary heart disease is one of the most important common diseases in the elderly. Coronary heart disease with hypertension accounts for a large proportion, and about 60-80% of patients with coronary heart disease in China have hypertension complications. According to medical reports, the incidence of coronary heart disease in patients with blood pressure and systolic blood pressure higher than 1.80 mmHg is six times that of normal systolic blood pressure. Compared with middle-aged patients with coronary heart disease, elderly patients with coronary heart disease have much lower degree of conscious precordial colic and atypical symptoms. About 22 ~ 60% have no typical pain, or the pain site is atypical. Moreover, because of the relatively dull feeling and long medical history, it is easy to be careless, ignoring the decline of one's body's ability to resist the development of lesions, often ignoring the precursors of diseases and delaying valuable treatment opportunities. It is also possible that the symptoms of coronary heart disease are covered up because of other diseases. Therefore, coronary heart disease leads to acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and cardiac arrest, which has become one of the most common causes of death in the elderly. Elderly people with coronary heart disease should always prepare a reliable home oxygen supply device. When you feel a little chest tightness, shortness of breath, sudden sweating, nausea, vomiting, chills in limbs, epigastric pain, or sudden pain in any part of the trunk, immediately take oxygen to increase the blood oxygen content, take the first-aid medicine prescribed by the doctor at the same time, and take a bus to the hospital for further diagnosis and treatment under the escort of the doctor or his family. Generally speaking, if the onset is not very serious, if oxygen is inhaled in time, the symptoms can be quickly relieved and the condition can be stabilized. Those who continue to recuperate at home after hospitalization should continue to take oxygen 2 ~ 3 times a day. This will help to consolidate the therapeutic effect and prevent the recurrence of the disease. Atherosclerosis Most elderly people have different degrees of atherosclerosis. The early symptoms of arteriosclerosis are: frequent dizziness, headache, insomnia, forgetfulness and emotional impulse. Sometimes there is the feeling that ants crawl over the local skin at the end of limbs, and then numbness or tremor occurs, which is a typical symptom of arteriosclerosis. Vertigo is a common symptom of middle-aged and elderly people. Often sudden, conscious rotation and shaking, serious when it can be unstable. If you find vertigo symptoms, you should diagnose the cause in time. If it is diagnosed as an imbalance system disorder, it is related to ischemia and hypoxia of the nervous system. In addition to symptomatic drug treatment, we should also take oxygen regularly to improve oxygen supply. Tremor tremors often originate from the hands, feet and head, showing uncontrollable rhythmic tremors. In severe cases, tremors will spread to limbs, jaws and the tip of the tongue-no matter what causes tremors, if diagnosis and treatment are delayed, there is no quick and effective recovery means. At the initial stage of symptoms, while seeking medical treatment and taking symptomatic drugs, we should adhere to regular oxygen inhalation for a long time to prevent the symptoms from getting worse. Migraine migraine in the elderly is mainly caused by cerebral vasospasm, which is characterized by chronic recurrent attacks. Is oxygen inhalation beneficial to prevent and relieve cerebral vasospasm? Relieve the symptoms. Infectious diseases of the elderly are easily infected by pathogenic bacteria in various parts of the body in winter: they mostly occur in respiratory tract, urethra, biliary tract and compressed or exposed soft tissues. Once an infection occurs, the body will consume a lot of nutrients and oxygen to fight against germs. Therefore, it is very important to do everything possible to maintain and enhance the physique of patients. Fever caused by inflammation consumes a lot of oxygen in the body, leading to severe hypoxia in the tissue. According to the patient's elevated body temperature and shortness of breath, oxygen should be continuously inhaled regularly or for a long time to ensure adequate supply of oxygen. After the age of 50, the speed of nerve impulses from the brain to the muscles will drop by 5%, but the changes in the brain can be ignored. In the brain of the elderly, 50 thousand cells die every day, but this is irrelevant compared with the total number of brain cells of 5-6 billion, and there are natural substitution and compensation functions between brain cells. The main cause of Alzheimer's disease is hypoxia of brain cells for various reasons, which leads to large-scale degeneration and shedding of brain cells, thus causing dementia symptoms. Alzheimer's disease belongs to pathological accelerated aging of brain, which often causes or aggravates the sclerosis of cerebrovascular system, promotes the development of dementia and produces other serious symptoms. There is no specific drug or treatment for dementia. However, it is not difficult to detect the early signs of dementia, such as slow onset, memory loss, excitability and multilingualism. Timely oxygen inhalation can directly increase the oxygen supply of brain cells and maintain the nutrition of brain cells, which is of great value for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. He is a mild patient. While taking medicine according to the doctor's advice, he took oxygen according to the course of treatment and at night, with obvious effect. If conditions permit, hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be carried out regularly, and the effect is better.