How Breathing Through Your Nose and Out Through Pursed Lips Might Help

How breathing through your nose and out through pursed lips might help lower your blood pressure and improve your lung function. Nobody knows the right answer to prevent the severity of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the symptoms of breathlessness.

What is Currently Working to Treat COVID-19

Several drugs have been tested in humans with COVID-19, and remdesivir and monoclonal antibodies are most widely accepted. Remdesivir was tested in a small cohort study with 68% of severely ill patients with clinical improvement. However, more studies must be done to determine the overall efficacy and safety of remdesivir according to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

While social distancing by staying at home, wearing a mask when going out for essentials (avoid touching your face), frequent hand washing, and keeping three arms lengths away for others are working, perhaps there are some other things that can be done to decrease the severity of the virus if you get it.

A routine breathing exercise might help improve blood oxygen saturation by breathing deep and slow, in through your nose and out through your mouth with pursed lips.

When Should You Use Breathing Exercises

Only your health care provider can tell you when to use breathing exercises. However, perhaps you should ask your health care provider. Expert observation and some research studies have shown that breathing exercises before or after contracting the disease may be beneficial.

Preventing Pneumonia with Breathing Exercises

It may be important to see the YouTube video done by Dr. Jonathan Bayuk, Allergist & Immunologist called “How to Breath If You Get the Infection” where he describes how to do breathing exercises to prevent pneumonia. Go to YouTube and paste the title into the search box to view. “Breathing Techniques for COVID-19 Patients | NowThis” is another must-see video that explains routine breathing techniques to survive this virus.

For years, we have prevented pneumonia with breathing exercises. The leaders at the American Lung Associations have recommended breathing exercises on their website.

An incentive spirometer is a very useful tool that is used in the hospital. However, a readily available pursed your lips to do your breathing exercises. Again, this is not scientific, but using a party blower may assist to breath slow and deep.

American Lung Association Breathing Exercises Rcommendations

Breathing Exercises Book

Review of the Breathing Exercises Book, which is very useful to understand the benefits of the breathing technique.

Below is a scientific overview of the Breathing Exercises Book

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COVID-19 Myths

Go to the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention websites for reliable information and updates on COVID-19. Also, read the most dangerous myths about coronavirus at this link

Measuring your breathing using a peak flow meter or this digtal peak flow meter, which may tell you early on when to get medical help if you have asthma. Get a baseline reading when your asthma is controlled over a couple weeks.

Check out this video that will tell you what else you can do if you get COVID-19.

Resources:

1) American Lung Association. Retrieved from https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/wellness/breathing-exercises
2) Breathing exercises that may save you from the Coronavirus. YouTube video
3) Breathing Techniques for COVID-19 Patients | NowThis. YouTube video
4) Coronavirus Free Breathing Exercises by Patrick McKeown. YouTube video
5) Grein, J., Ohmagari, N., Shin, D., Diaz, G., Asperges, E., Castagna, A.,…Flanigan, T. (2020). Compassionate use of remdesivir for patients with severe Covid-19. The New England Journal of Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016?articleTools=true
6) Hansen, M. (2020). How Coronavirus aka COVID19 Kills Some People (But Not Others) – I’m a Lung Doctor (MEDICAL TRUTH). YouTube Video
6) PRE-CORONAVIRUS: Lung exercises to increase lung capacity for better lungs. Breathing Exercises. YouTube video
7) Shut your Mouth and Change your Life | Patrick McKeown | TEDxGalway. YouTube video
8) Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) – Gary Craig. YouTube video

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