Day: January 14, 2020

Snoring can stop your heart.

Snoring can stop your heart. How is obesity, snoring and heart disease related to each other? Sleep apnea, snoring when sleeping, usually mean the state of low oxygen level in blood stream and high in carbon dioxide during the period of momentary pause of breathing when you are asleep. Snoring does not always mean sleep apnea. Aside from this, the state in which the body stop breathing momentary when asleep does not only occur in obese person but can also occur in normal weight individual as well. Therefore, sleep apnea needs to be diagnosed properly by usually proper equipment for sleep study to test for any sign of abnormality of the heart. Sleep apnea will cause the body to experience high blood pressure in the arteries in the lung and throughout the body. The heart will contract that will affect the ability to pump blood around the body so as a result the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide transporting around the body is low and high respectively. In the early stage of sleep apnea, the body symptom will occur at night when sleeping, however if this continue, the symptom can occur during the day as well. The affected patient will not be able to gain deep sleep and will feel sleepy during the day. The heart can beat slower and in severe case, the heart can stop beating for 2 – 13 seconds. This can result in the

PM2.5 lung and breathing problem.

PM2.5 lung and breathing problem. PM stands for Particulate Matters. It’s the standard term used for small dust that is harmful to our body and health by the united states environment protection agency in USA. There are two sizes of dust in the scale of micron which is PM 10 and PM 2.5. PM2.5 is the sized of 1/25 of the width of a hair and is very light. Dust PM 2.5 comes from smoke from vehicle combustion engine, industrial factory and burning from agriculture activities. PM 2.5 is harmful to our body and our breathing system that can lead to respiratory problem and if expose to PM2.5 for a long time, the dust can accumulate in the lungs which result in reduce efficiently for our lung to breath and to received oxygen. For individual with chronic lung illness such as asthma, emphysema and dust allergy, the condition of their illness can worsen with symptoms such as coughing, difficulty breathing and runny nose. Breathing in air containing PM2.5 without protection for a period of time has the potential to lead to lung cancer. Aside from that, PM2.5 is so small that it can even pass through our lungs and absorbed into our blood stream and spread around our body This can cause patients with heart and artery problem to experience severe symptoms that cause reduce the blood that feed our heart muscle. People who are easily susceptible to PM2.5 re