Hyperventilation Causes
Health Encyclopedia: Rapid Deep Breathing (Hyperventilation)
Hyperventilation is rapid or deep breathing, usually caused by anxiety or panic. This overbreathing, as it is sometimes called, may actually leave you feeling breathless.
When you breathe, you inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Excessive breathing may lead to low levels of carbon dioxide in your blood, which causes many of the symptoms that you may feel if you hyperventilate.
Alternative Names
Rapid deep breathing; Breathing - rapid and deep; Overbreathing; F...
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Expert & Community Posts
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Health Guide
Respiratory alkalosis
... Alkalosis - respiratory Causes, incidence, and risk factors Common causes include hyperventilation, anxiety, and fever. Any lung disease that leads to shortness of breath may... Read more »Rapid deep breathing (hyperventilation)
...Respiratory rate - rapid and deep Home Care Assuming that a more serious, underlying cause of hyperventilation has been eliminated and your doctor has explained that you hyperventilate... Read more »Alkalosis
...Treatment Treatment of alkalosis depends on finding the specific cause. For alkalosis caused by hyperventilation, breathing into a paper bag causes more carbon dioxide to be retained. Oxygen... Read more »Alkalosis
...state called alkalosis. Respiratory alkalosis is caused by lower carbon dioxide levels. Hyperventilation (increased rate of breathing) causes the body to lose carbon dioxide. Altitude... Read more »Rapid shallow breathing
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