Breathing Disorder Causes
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Breathing plays a significant role on the yogic path, in that it is both a lifestyle decision ("I will breathe properly throughout the day") and a set practice ("I will practice certain breathing techniques for a certain amount of time every day"). Some yoga practices like postures primarily affect the body, while others like concentration and meditation primarily affect the mind. But breathing plays such a significant role on the path because it uses the lungs of the body to positively affect the centeredness and presence of the mind. When we breathe properly, we are less affected by our emotions and are able to conduct ourselves with presence and focus.
But, the flip-side is also true. Most of us are slaves to improper breathing, for while a deliberate breathing routine leads to peace, an indulgence in conflict through arguments and violent films leads to improper breathing. For those of us who have fallen into a habit of improper breathing, it is only when we make a conscious effort to live more peacefully through a path like Yoga that we have a more beneficial lifestyle. And, with conscious effort comes a proper habit.
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Breathing problems can potentially be caused by a number of conditions, including: heart disease, lung infection (pneumonia), a collapsed lung, asthma, smoking, inhalation of fumes, choking, and a chest or head injury. Sudden onset of asthma-like symptoms should be treated with a rescue inhaler. Fear, panic and anxiety may also cause breathing problems, resulting in rapid, shallow breathing, known as hyperventilation or over-breathing. Over-breathing may also occur in more serious medical conditions, including heart attack, bleeding, fever or serious infection.
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Following are causes of shortness of breath (dyspnea). These are some of the things a doctor will be thinking about when seeing a person with shortness of breath.
- Heart failure with a reduced ejection fraction
- Heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction
- A problem with the heart muscle itself
- An issue with pulmonary artery hypertension where the arteries in the lungs are involved
- The lining of the heart
- Valvular heart disease
- Heart disease – Is it simply that the vessels are plugged, have significant disease and are causing symptoms when the person exerts?
- Pulmonary embolism – A significant percentage of people don't even know when they’ve had an incident of pulmonary embolism
- A problem with the right ventricle of the heart – The right ventricle of the heart is something that's really not been addressed significantly in the literature and in the common press previously, because it's a unique physiology
- Something not related to the heart – It could be related to the lungs, anemia or obesity
- Rare diseases like neuromuscular and mitochondrial disorders
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