Recently, rapper Zhang Yanzhuo (capper) said in a variety show that was ill and suffered from respiratory alkalosis.
"For my last music festival last year, I made a lot of stage installations. When I walked out of the smoke machine, instantly developed respiratory alkalosis."
Shang Wenjie also said in the program, I also suffered from respiratory alkalosis, and I have been taking medication for it, and I still haven’t stopped taking the medication.
This news triggered a heated discussion among netizens.
The topic became a hot search.
Some netizens said
This is the first time they have heard of the disease "respiratory alkalosis".
Many celebrities have previously revealed that they have this symptom. According to reports, newcomer actor Chen Shaoxi is in During the filming of the movie, he suffered from respiratory alkalosis due to heat stroke.
Rookie actor He Landou once said that he suddenly developed respiratory alkalosis during a performance, which caused his hands to look like chicken claws during the second half of the performance and his whole body was numb and unable to move.
He Landou also said that he had encountered similar situations when acting in emotionally-heavy scenes.
What is respiratory alkalosis?
What situations are easily induced?
For example, the human body is like a balance scale, with acid and alkali organisms on the left and right. Once one party has too much weight, the balance will collapse due to acid-base imbalance. Overweight of "acid" is acidosis, and overweight of "alkali" is alkalosis, which in turn leads to a poisoning reaction in the human body.
When people feel angry, anxious or nervous, their heart rate and blood pressure will rise, and their breathing will speed up involuntarily. Therefore, when breathing too fast or hyperventilating, the production rate of carbon dioxide is lower than the rate of discharge, and more carbon dioxide is discharged. , will cause the carbon dioxide content in the body to decrease, and the carbon dioxide concentration in the blood to decrease accordingly. Once there is insufficient carbon dioxide and the acid-base balance is broken, respiratory alkalosis will occur, also known as hyperventilation syndrome, respiratory nerve syndrome, and hyperventilation syndrome.
Respiratory alkalosis is not uncommon
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Case 1:
A 2-year-old boy accidentally choked on eating peanuts in Jiaozuo, Henan. The doctor knelt down for more than 20 minutes to blow oxygen into him, and finally removed 36 pieces from the child's lungs. Crushed peanuts, the doctor caused respiratory alkalosis due to hyperventilation.
Case 2
A 21-year-old junior girl in Changsha, Hunan Province was waiting for the bus at the platform when she suddenly had shortness of breath, numbness in her limbs, and was unable to move her body. She was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment by 120. The doctor diagnosed her with respiratory alkalosis. The doctor learned from the patient that the woman had been in a state of mental stress due to preparing for the final exam, and had poor sleep, which caused the disease.
Case 3:
A 33-year-old woman in Wuhan, Hubei Province turned off the air conditioner in advance to save electricity. Within 5 minutes, her clothes were soaked, her breathing became more and more rapid, her hands and feet began to feel numb, her mood became nervous, and she even vomited after taking a big breath. The husband thought that his wife had heat stroke, but after the doctor learned about the onset of the disease, he determined that it was not a simple heat stroke, but a "respiratory alkalosis syndrome."
Case 4:
A man accidentally fell and broke both legs. Although the operation was successful, he felt that he was the breadwinner of the family. The operation was expensive, and he was worried about the impact on his future work. He was under great psychological pressure. Two weeks later, the man suddenly became confused, his body twitched non-stop, and he broke out in cold sweats. After multidisciplinary consultation, the expert team found no other organic problems and suspected respiratory alkalosis.
It can be seen from the above cases that there are many reasons for inducing respiratory alkalosis, including mental factors such as nervousness, excitement, anxiety, excitement, anger, as well as severe pain or drug-induced excitement of the respiratory center, which leads to accelerated respiratory rate and carbon dioxide in the lungs. Excessive excretion causes acid-base imbalance in the human body.
For normally healthy people, respiratory alkalosis may occur if they yell or sing for a long time. In children or infants, prolonged crying can also cause respiratory alkalosis. Other conditions such as psychogenic hyperventilation, hyperthyroidism, plateau hypoxia, central nervous system disease, salicylic acid poisoning, etc. may lead to respiratory alkalosis.
What are the symptoms of respiratory alkalosis?
Doctors remind: severe arrhythmia can be fatal!
When the body is alkalotic, blood calcium and potassium will decrease, and cerebral blood vessels will constrict. The main symptoms of respiratory alkalosis are numbness and needle-like sensation in the hands, feet, face, especially around the mouth, chest tightness, chest pain, dizziness, fear, and even twitching of the limbs, including disturbance of consciousness (coma).
Once such a situation occurs, how to provide first aid?
Once the symptoms of respiratory alkalosis appear, we must first help the patient calm down, and then use a paper bag or plastic bag to cover the patient's mouth to allow the exhaled carbon dioxide to be breathed back into the body to increase the inhalation of carbon dioxide. If you don't have a paper bag, you can use a piece of newspaper, roll it up into a trumpet shape, put the big head over your mouth, and breathe back with the small head outward, that is, try to breathe back the breath you exhale into your body.
In addition, you can also use abdominal breathing (when inhaling, expand the abdomen to the maximum extent and keep the chest still; when exhaling, contract the abdomen to the maximum inward, keeping the chest still, and the cycle continues), slow breathing , slow down the respiratory rate and reduce or eliminate the tendency to hyperventilate.
Non-pathological respiratory alkalosis generally does not cause death and can resolve itself; however, alkalosis can cause a drop in blood potassium in the patient's body, causing cardiac electrophysiological abnormalities, resulting in fatal arrhythmia.
Doctors remind that for acute illnesses that cannot be relieved, it is recommended to go to the hospital immediately. For example: fingers suddenly become abnormally stiff, sometimes shaped like "chicken claws", lips are numb, unable to speak; disturbance of consciousness, convulsions, syncope; cardiac arrhythmia, respiratory arrest, etc.
Xinmin Evening News (xmwb1929) integrated Qianjiang Evening News, Morning News, Guangzhou Daily
Editor: Shi Yu
