Home Oxygen Therapy
As an increasingly popular health aid
Oxygen concentrators have also begun to become a common choice in many families
What is blood oxygen saturation？
Blood oxygen saturation is an important physiological parameter of respiratory circulation and can intuitively reflect the oxygen supply status of the human body.
Who needs to pay attention to blood oxygen testing?
Since reduced blood oxygen saturation will cause harm to the body, it is recommended that everyone use an oximeter to check their blood oxygen saturation status in daily life, especially for the following high-risk groups:
- Heavy smoker
- 60 years old elderly
- Obesity(BMI≥30)
- Late pregnancy and peripartum women(From 28 weeks of pregnancy to one week after giving birth)
- Immunodeficiency(For example, in patients with AIDS, long-term use of corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive drugs leads to a state of immunocompromised)
- Have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases,People with chronic lung disease, diabetes, chronic hepatitis, kidney disease, tumors and other basic diseases
Home oxygen therapy is. . .
Home oxygen therapy is one of the important means of treating hypoxemia outside the hospital
Adapted to the crowd: patients with bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, angina pectoris, respiratory failure and heart failure. Or in clinical practice, if some patients still need long-term oxygen therapy after hospitalization for chronic respiratory diseases (such as COPD, pulmonary heart disease), they can choose to perform home oxygen therapy at home.
What does home oxygen therapy do?
- Reduce hypoxemia and restore basic tissue metabolism
- Relieve pulmonary hypertension caused by hypoxia and delay the occurrence of pulmonary heart disease
- Relieve bronchospasm, reduce dyspnea, and improve ventilation disorders
- Improve patients’ physical fitness, exercise tolerance and quality of life
- Improve prognosis and extend life of COPD patients
- Reduce hospitalization times and save medical expenses
When is the most appropriate time to inhale oxygen?
In addition to being an auxiliary treatment, home oxygen therapy also plays a role in daily health care. If you need to relieve fatigue or improve immunity, you can inhale oxygen during the following two periods.
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Is there any regulation on the duration of oxygen inhalation?
| COPD, tuberculosis | 2-3L/min | Continues every day |
| Pregnant woman | 1-2L/min | 0.5-1h |
| High altitude hypoxic person | 4-5L/min | Several times a day, 1-2 hours a day |
| Relieve fatigue | 1-2L/min | 1-2 times a day, 30 minutes each time |
*The above oxygen therapy parameters are for reference only. Oxygen inhalation time varies from person to person. Please monitor it with a blood oximeter at all times. If you feel that your physical condition is effectively relieved, it means that oxygen inhalation is effective. Otherwise, you need to consult a doctor to get the best solution for you. oxygen therapy parameters
Post time: Oct-30-2024