What do I need to know about lung capacity?
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You might take a look at information on peak flow as well which is a common test for the "quality" of your lungs with Asthma ( I am 25% down) \n\nTables exist for testing in the workplace for lung capacity\n\nhttp://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/lungcapacity.html\n\nthis rocks for kids! ...careful with over inflated balloons they are high pressure if the mouth is used as a one way valve on inflation then opened!\n\nhttp://www.biologycorner.com/resources/BSA_formula.gif\n\nmight be all you need\n\nLONG TEXT FROM: \nhttp://emphysemafoundation.org/featurearticles.jsp\n\n Measuring Lung Capacity\n\nA simple device called a spirometer measures your lung capacity.  During this test you take a deep breath, as deeply as you can, and blow it out all at once into a machine that records airflow and capacity.  The total amount of air blown out of fully inflated lungs is called the vital capacity.  Since the air is forced out by your muscular effort, it is called forced vital capacity (FVC, newer term FEV6).  This test measures the useful size of your lungs.  The rate of airflow tells how open the air passages are and how well the lungs can empty, or how well their elasticity is functioning.  The lungs empty somewhat like an inflated balloon.  Remember how a flabby or overused balloon empties slowly and incompletely?  This is a lot like the lung with emphysema.  The airflow test is called the forced expiratory volume in one second, since this airflow is timed or measured over the first second of exhalation.  The symbol for forced expiratory volume in one second is FEV1.  These two tests, the FVC and FEV1, reveal all your doctor needs to know about your lung capacity and airflow.  These two numbers are somewhat similar to systolic and diastolic numbers in blood pressure readings.  We believe that knowledge of FVC and FEV1 is as valuable and important to health promotion as knowledge of blood pressure.  These tests measure your lung power, which is essential to your continuation and enjoyment of life.\n\nNormal values are based on age, sex, and height.  Younger and taller individuals have greater airflow and air volume than shorter or older people.  Men have slightly greater airflow and air volume compared with women of the same age and height.\n\nSelf-Testing-   Try It Yourself\n\nNormal lungs have large volume, and they empty quickly because airways are open and lungs are elastic.  You can do a little checking yourself with a stopwatch.  Take a full breath; hold if for one second.  Then, with your mouth open, blow out as hard and fast as you can.  Your lungs should be completely emptied – meaning that you can blow no more air out even though you try--  in no more than 4 to 6 seconds. \n\nIf one takes longer to blow out all the air, it means that airflow is obstructed or limited.  Today we use the term “limited” because this airflow reduction can be due to either a loss of lung elasticity (emphysema) or problems with airways (asthmatic or chronic bronchitis).  See how simple it is!\n\nUnfortunately, routine lung function tests have been accepted all too slowly.  No person would go for a complete check-up if the physician did not examine the eyes, ears, nose, throat, listen to the heart and lungs, feel the abdomen for any abnormal masses, and examine the genital, rectal, and pelvic areas.  All these are routine, and to supplement them, appropriate laboratory blood and urine tests are done, plus an electrocardiogram and, usually, a chest x-ray.  Unfortunately, none of these examinations or tests identifies early COPD.\n\nOnly spirometric measurements of the kind we have just described can identify the patient who is just beginning to develop a lung abnormality.\n\nWhen one considers that the disease process finally resulting in disability may go on for 20 to 30 years, doesn’t it make sense to identify the problem early and to take immediate corrective action?  The answer must be yes if you are to a enjoy a long happy life
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atelectasis is not bad. However if you don't get t reatment for it, it can progress into pnemonia. in your lungs you have air sacs, just imagine a bunch of grapes, thats exactly what your aveoli in your lungs are, they stay open and full all of the time, however when you don't breath in deep enough long eventually those air sacs collapse, that iis attelecasis, I take it that you have recently had surgery or are in pain for some reason? that is almost always whay patients have this\nthe cure for it is easy!!!! do you have an incentive spiroometer? if you do use is 10 breaths every hour while you are awake... if not you need to take 10 good deep breaths, as deep as you can every hour... and hold the breaths in for a few seconds... take your time between the breaths.. you can take a few normal bettween....\n\ni am a respiratory therapist, i have worked for 6 years doing just this... teaching patients how to breath.....\n\nI hope this helps you
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Drink plenty of water and don't smoke cigarettes (the worst for blood flow)or drink alcohol. Also Aerobic exercise will make your lungs better able to get oxygen into the bloodstream.
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What you need to know?
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well i know with simple instructions!\n\nTo measure how much air your lungs can hold by making a spirometer.\nInstructions: Lung Capacity\n1\nWhat You Need\n• 2 or 3 liter plastic bottle\n• Large, deep bowl or plastic dishpan\n• Water\n• Masking tape\n• Measuring cup\n• 30 cm (1 foot) long piece of flexible tubing (aquarium tubing works well)\nTo Do and Observe\n1. Vertically attach a strip of masking tape to the plastic bottle, from the\nbottom to the top of it. Fill the measuring cup with 60ml of water. Pour\nthe water into the bottle. Mark the water level on the tape. Repeat until\nyou've marked to the top of the bottle.\n2. Fill the dishpan about 10cm (4 inches) high with water.\n3. Fill the plastic bottle to the top with water, and hold your fingers over the\nmouth of the bottle so the mouth is completely covered.\n4. Invert the bottle into the pan of water. Make sure you do not remove your\nfingers until the mouth of the bottle is completely submerged. Insert one\nend of the tubing into the mouth of the bottle.\n5. Take a breath and exhale completely into the open end of the tubing.\n6. Measure how much air is now in the bottle (count the marks). To calculate\nyour lung capacity, multiply the number of marks by 60ml. If your pan is not\ntoo full of water, you can repeat without filling the bottle back up.\nWhat's Going On\n• The amount of air you can hold in your lungs is called lung capacity, and\ncan be measured with a spirometer. Blowing air from your lungs into the\nbottle forces a measurable amount of the water out of the bottle, which\nadds to the volume of water in your pan. This method of measuring uses\ndisplacement – you're displacing a volume of water with a volume of air.\nInstructions: Lung Capacity\n• Displacement is often used when something can't be measured directly. What else could you\nmeasure using displacement?\nTips\n• Check for variations in lung capacity in people of different sizes (older students,\nyou). Ask your class to look for a correlation between body size and lung\ncapacity.\n• Have each participant test for a difference between a "normal" breath of air and\nan "expanded" deeper breath.
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The below links should give you an overview, and refer you to other sources for more info.  Of course, the best info will come from a physician:\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/bronchiectasis\n\nhttp://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35009\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000144.htm\n\nhttp://www.bronchiectasis.info/\n\nhttp://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/brn/brn_whatis.html\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?q=bronchiectasis&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
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It depends on the current medical status of the person.. Lung status, for further details contact me.. Goodluck.. =)
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MM/ is this it?\nhttp://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=38472
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You can use a spirometer to do it. Please check out this link I am giving you, it will solve your problem. They have really done it well\nhttp://intranet1.sutcol.ac.uk:888/NEC/MATERIAL/PDFS/HUM_BIO/AS_HUMAN/23U2_T2.PDF\n(We can measure the volume of air moved by the lungs using a. spirometer . The ... air min. −1. with a breathing. rate of 18 breaths min ...)- excerpt from the site.
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Vital capacity is the total amount of air that we can exhale forcefully. To calculate vital capacity, first you add your tidal volume and the extra amount of air beyond the tidal volume that your lungs can hold (the IRV). So, so far:\n\nVC = TV + IRV\n\nWhen you take the deepest breath you can and then exhale, you exhale first your IRV, and then your TV, but then you have even more air in your lungs that you can exhale if you need to. This is called the ERV. When you are measuring how much your lungs can exhale when they are FORCED to, ERV is part of the equation. So now:\n\nVC = TV + IRV + ERV\n\nThe reason you include ERV is because normally you don't exhale that amount of air (normally you will only exhale your tidal volume and, if you take a slight deep breath, some of your IRV). However, if you attempt to completely get all the air out of your lungs, you will also exhale your ERV. Since the definition, in general, of vital capacity is the total amount of air you can forcefully exhale, ERV must be a part of the equation.\n\nSide note: what is NEVER a part of the equation is residual capacity, RC. This is the amount of air in the lungs that you can't force out, no matter how hard you try. It is about 1 L.
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Check out the link below:\n\nhttp://www.respiratorygroup.com/products/high_pressure/med_o2_spec.aspx
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1. respiratory system, lung - there will be more frequent relaxation and contraction that may be a burden to the lung\n\n2. muscular/muscles, there will be a lactic acid production as a result of strenuous muscular activity (shortage of O2)
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I usually fill my lungs right up, and hold it in as long as i can. If your lungs are full, you can't hic up.
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You breathe in and out anywhere from 15 to 25 times per minute without even thinking about it. When you exercise, your breathing rate goes up -- again, without you thinking about it. You breathe so regularly that it is easy to take your lungs for granted. You can't even stop yourself from breathing if you try! \n\nYour lungs are complex organs, but what they do is take a gas that your body needs to get rid of (carbon dioxide) and exchange it for a gas that your body can use (oxygen). In this article, we will take a close look at how your lungs work and how they keep your body's cells supplied with oxygen and get rid of the carbon dioxide waste. We will explain some of the conditions and diseases that make breathing harder and cause the lungs to fail. We will also explain why you can't hold your breath for a long time and why you cough or hiccup. \n\nThere is alot more at this web site.  Good luck!\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/lung.htm
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heart rate\nblood pressure\namount of Carbon dioxide entering the lungs and the amount od oxygen.
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I would need to know what you are already using.  There are several inhalers and nebulizer meds & oral meds that work singularly and in combination to enhance better air exchange.  In saying this, your physician knows you best, knows your lungs, your heart, your weight/nutrition....\n\nA person can live for many years even with advanced emphysema.  It depends on many things including the over all condition of the person, nutrition, environment, ability to exercise on some level, emotional strength...etc.  \n\nIf you are not involved in an exercise class, see if your hospital can recommend one specifically for people with chronic lung disease.  Building up your accessory muscles may go a long way to enhancing better gas exchange in your lungs.  Good nutrition is a must....small, frequent NUTRITIOUS food/meals.  \nYou need to keep yourself from getting respiratory illnesses, so be selfish about keeping your environment safe.....WASH your hands before eating, after shaking hands with others, handling money etc.  If you get sick...GET to your physician PRONTO.  \nI wish I had magic answers for you, but I don't.  Your daily routines should be done to maintain and enhance your quality of life....much of this will come from common sense, good medical care and compliance.....and a great attitude for life and living.
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Give a demonstration of a lung.  Go to the grocery store and by a bunch of grapes on a stem.  Put the bunch in a plastic bag keeping the big main stem extended thru the bag.  You have made a lung once you seal the top of the bag.  grapes are the air sacs, branches the different sized bronchial tubes and the big one can be you trachea.  Good luck.