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Take your health into your own hands

The help that comes from yoga improves breathing

In our experimental studies, we observed that subjects who have been practicing Yoga for a long time easily tend to breathe more slowly. Many practitioners spontaneously adopt the three-stage breath, which, on inhalation, mobilizes first the diaphragm, then the lower chest and then the higher chest. These people, when they breathe oxygen-poor air, are able to maintain relatively little increased ventilation, but at the same time they take in more oxygen, unlike non-practitioners who must ventilate much more to achieve the same result.

Yoga practitioners therefore have greater ventilatory efficiency and have a marked reduction in the stimulus to ventilate induced by oxygen deficiency. We have also observed this phenomenon in Himalayan populations, an example of effective adaptation to the lack of oxygen present at high altitude, who seem to spontaneously adopt this type of three-stage breathing. We have also observed that yoga practitioners, probably as a result of training, tend to maintain this characteristic over time.

A confirmation of this reasoning comes from our observation of the mountaineers on the recent 50th anniversary expedition to conquer K2. The climbers who reached the summit without the need for oxygen had far less ventilation before they started their final ascent than those who, on the other hand, did not reach the summit or who had to use oxygen to reach it.

The practical consequences of these studies could be important. Yoga practice over time produces an improvement in breath efficiency, reducing ventilatory stimuli and improving control of the circulatory system, with a reduction in sympathetic activity and an increase in vagal tone. In heart failure, for example, both of these factors are very important. Therefore, it seems useful to combine breath control techniques with traditional drug therapy.

By Luciano Bernardi – Department of Internal Medicine, IR
CCS S. Matteo, University of Pavia

Drowning: what is the treatment to take?

When we talk about drowning we are talking about a diagnosis of death, so it would be more correct to talk about “semi-drowning,” by which we denote the condition of a subject to have survived suffocation by immersion. The greatest risk of this eventuality is related to aspiration of water into the airway. This leads to loss of consciousness and the need for patient care.

The water could be hypertonic or hypotonic. In the first case the patient will encounter hemoconcentration, in the second a Hemodilution and hemolysis. The tests to be performed are arterial blood gas analysis, pH and bicarbonates. In fact, it happens that most drowned people are In acidosis, initially respiratory and metabolic, then metabolic type.

Principles of therapy

It is first necessary to take the patient out of the water, trying to reach it with the help of a rope or stick. Pending of transportation to the hospital, immediately disostruct the oral cavity, practice mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-nose breathing and keep the patient on a flank.

In resuscitation it is necessary:

  • Postural drainage
  • Oxygen therapy
  • Possible intubation
  • Correction of acidosis and volemia
  • Monitoring and support of cardiovascular function
  • Treatment of any neurological complications
  • Antibiotic therapy

Prognosis is related to early intervention and is usually favorable and free of long-term sequelae.

Source: Medical Guard Handbook edited by Piercarlo Salari

Tuberculosis: how to treat it

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious and contagious disease-potentially serious-caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Koch’s bacillus, named after the German physician and bacteriologist who discovered it back in 1882.

Tuberculosis-which in most cases affects the lungs-is transmitted through droplets of saliva emitted by the sick person during phonation, coughing, spitting and sneezing. Fortunately, most people who come in contact with these germs do not develop symptoms of the disease, which is effectively nipped in the bud by the immune system.

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MENOPAUSE
 
MOM IN SHAPE
 
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
 
HEART SURGERY
 
MEDICINES AND MEDICAL DEVICES
 
PARENTING
 
THE CULTURE OF HEALTH
 
HEALTH UTILITIES
 
GENERAL MEDICINE
 
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MIND AND BRAIN
 
NEUROVEGETATIVE DYSTONIA
 
WAYS OF BEING
 
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