How to breathe properly taught in ancient India. Modern medicine confirms that proper breathing is important for health. With proper breathing can cure many diseases, as well as to strengthen their mental abilities, control the physical and psychological state.

What is the proper breathing

The right is considered to be a breath, in which involved not only the breast, but also the abdominal muscles and diaphragm. That is correct - it thoraco-abdominal or diaphragmatic breathing, while the majority of people use only breast breathing.

In the chest-abdominal breathing actively involved diaphragm - the muscle that separates the chest and abdominal cavity. Moving during respiration, the diaphragm massages the organs of the chest and abdominal cavity, including the heart, helping it to supply the body with blood.

At the thoracic and diaphragmatic breathing activated different parts of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). When a person breathes breast, activates the sympathetic nervous system (a system provides the body during times of stress).

And when the person is breathing belly, using abdominal breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system (the system that operates normally quiescent state). Therefore, thoracic breathing keeps a person in a state of stress, which, of course, negatively affects the work of all organs and systems. The thoracic type of breathing contributes to sleep disorders Dreams: how to understand our dreams , Making it impossible to complete relaxation and rest. All this may lead to development of neurosis, sexual disorders, and so forth.

When switching on the chest-abdominal breathing state of stress How to beat stress? Create an oasis   removed all the organs and systems begin to work in a normal rhythm is restored at night and sleep during the day operation, to create optimal conditions for the treatment of any disease.

Proper breathing in yoga

The first thing is teaching yoga - it is proper breathing. Right in yoga is considered a thoraco-abdominal breathing during exhalation which is 3-4 times longer than inhalation. For example, if the breath lasts 3 seconds, then exhale - 9-12 seconds. Proper breathing should be rare: yoga gradually reduce respiratory rate (RR), bringing it 5-6, and even less than a minute. For comparison: NPV of most modern people - more than 14-16 min.

Breathe in Yoga is always done through the nose, so warmed and purified air to the lungs. During the passage of air in the nasal cavity also chafe receptors of the nasal mucosa, thereby expanding reflex brain capillary, improvement in function of the nerve cells (neurons), and improve mental abilities. If you breathe in the air mouth, the mental capacity will lag behind that we see in children with adenoids Adenoids - the expansion of the pharyngeal tonsil .

How to learn to breathe correctly

To this end, we developed special exercises, which should be done in the morning, immediately after waking up:

• starting position (SP) - lying on his back; raise your hands up - slow (3 seconds), a deep breath, the chest and the diaphragm through the nose, dropping down the diaphragm and belly bulging forward;
• hold your breath for 3 seconds;
• to raise his head, straighten your body, sit down, lean forward, hands touching feet - slowly exhale through the nose for 8-9 seconds;
• repeat the exercise 5 times;
• lie on your back and legs to execute the exercise "bike";
• SP standing in front of a window; repeat all the elements of proper breathing five times.

During the day, also need to try to breathe properly so that participate in breathing abdominal muscles and diaphragm. Breathe easily be unnoticed and quietly through your nose as much as possible to the full depth, inflating the abdomen. Exhale quiet, long (three times longer than the breath) through the nose. The front wall of the abdomen is tightened to the back. The breathing should be comfortable and not to give discomfort, do not breathe too deeply - it can cause dizziness.

Such daily breathing exercises should be done every hour for first 5 minutes during the day, followed by 5 minutes every half hour. Training for two days in a row should be repeated every 10 days for four months. This will without any tension and discomfort used to correct breathing and jump on him completely.

With the right thoraco-abdominal breathing organism resides in the normal operating mode or rest. This allows you to keep active during the day and rest well at night. How to breathe - it is possible to learn on their own.

Galina Romanenko

Inflammation of the lungs - a serious disease, even in this age of antibiotics, before it is considered deadly. If you suspect pneumonia, the patient is usually hospitalized and treated in a hospital. This allows for treatment under the supervision of radiological and laboratory studies.

The causes of pneumonia

The main cause of pneumonia or pneumonia - viral, bacterial and fungal infections Fungal infection: to prevent and defeat , Agents which differ pronounced pneumotropic (propensity to defeat lung tissue). These are some types of staphylococci, streptococci, pneumococci, Candida fungi, mycoplasmas, viruses, flu and other respiratory infections, and so on.

Often pneumonia occur as a complication of inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, but sometimes the disease begins with inflammation of the lung tissue. Contributing factors may be reduced immunity, colds, respiratory tract burns, damage to toxic substances such as choking, inhalation of substances that irritate the respiratory tract (eg dichlorvos).

Signs of pneumonia

Lobar pneumonia - the defeat of an entire lobe of the lung, which is caused by pneumococcus. He does not usually preceded by acute respiratory illness, or any other infection, the disease begins abruptly with symptoms of pneumonia.

The patient suddenly rises sharply to a high body temperature of numbers, there is a fever and pain in the side to the interested party. Pain in the side are enhanced with a deep breath, and coughing. Almost immediately, there is shortness of breath, and then joins a rare dry cough. The intensity of the cough may increase, it becomes obsessive, but in some cases, cough in the early days not at all.

Nature of the treatment of the patient: the bright red color of the cheeks (or red spots on the cheek) to the side where the light struck, flared nostrils, slightly blue lips. Sometimes the patient loses consciousness and he starts raving. Two days later, a third less than the cough becomes dry, there is little clear, viscous mucus, which in some places there are streaks of blood. A few days mucus becomes "rusty" from the impurity levels.

Pain when breathing due to the fact that in lobar pneumonia in the process almost always involves the pleura (thin film covering the lungs), in which a lot of nerve endings. When lobar pneumonia is almost always suffering from cardiovascular system - the heart beat becomes very frequent (tachycardia) and irregularly.

All manifestations of lobar pneumonia may hold up to the crescent and more, after which the disease is on the decline. Lobar pneumonia may be complicated by suppuration (abscess) light and heavy complications of the cardiovascular system.

Symptoms of focal pneumonia

Focal pneumonia - an inflammation of the small area of ​​the lung. It starts as acute focal pneumonia, with fever up to high numbers and violations of the general condition of the patient in the form of weakness and malaise. Cough with focal pneumonia usually appears at once, he or dry or wet, with the office of the serous (a sign of inflammation without pus) sputum, which may be found streaks of blood. Chest pain or not at all, or they are expressed moderately. Over time, the amount of sputum increases, it becomes purulent. Unlike the focal lobar pneumonia it is often a complication of bacterial and viral diseases of the upper respiratory tract.

If the patient was promptly assigned to appropriate treatment, the temperature usually does not hold more than five days, and then begins the healing process. The total focal pneumonia lasts 3-4 weeks. Today, because of frequent self-focal pneumonia with antibiotics more often asymptomatic, and did not finish the cure becomes chronic.

Common symptoms

The most common symptom is a cough pneumonia. In some cases, the patient cough up phlegm yellowish, greenish, brownish color; sometimes there is blood in the sputum.

Also, patients often experience the following symptoms:

• Shortness of breath, even when a person is at rest;
• Increased heart rate;
• Heat;
• Malaise;
• Sweating and trembling;
• Lack of appetite;
• Chest pain.

Rarer symptoms

The following symptoms of pneumonia are less common:

• Coughing up blood;
• Headache;
• Nausea;
• Vomiting;
• Wheezy breathing;
• Pain in the joints and muscles;
• Confusion and disorientation (especially common in the elderly). When the symptoms should immediately seek medical help.

Symptoms in healthy adults

Bacterial pneumonia. In healthy adults the symptoms of pneumonia caused by bacteria usually appear suddenly. Diseases often develops during or after the infection of the upper respiratory tract. Symptoms of pneumonia may include:

• Cough, often with expectoration;
• Heat - in middle age is less common than in the young;
• Chills;
• Rapid, shallow breathing;
• Cardiopalmus;
• Chest pain that increases when a person coughs;
• Weakness and feeling very tired;
• Nausea and vomiting;
• Diarrhea.

Non-bacterial pneumonia. Symptoms of this type of pneumonia usually appear gradually, and often they are expressed not as intense as in bacterial pneumonia. In typical cases, patients experience the following symptoms:

• Heat;
• Cough;
• Rapid breathing;
• Coughing up small amounts of phlegm.

Often the symptoms are so mild that the patient carries the disease on their feet, and did not go to the doctor.

The symptoms in the elderly and children

The elderly pneumonia usually occurs with mild symptoms; most frequently observed dry cough Dry cough - whether to worry about it?   and a slight fever. However, worsening, or severe forms of pneumonia, they may appear confusion and even delirium.

The symptoms of pneumonia in children Pneumonia in children - the main symptoms for different ages   It depends on age:

• In infants observed decreased activity, loss of appetite, wheezing or rattling breathing, and fever;
• In older children pneumonia occurs with the same symptoms as adults.

The symptoms of chronic inflammation of the lungs

Chronic inflammation of the lungs usually occurs when undertreated acute pneumonia when the lungs is the focus of inflammation. It is in this place and there are pockets of exacerbation (relapse), and the frequent changes of the lung tissue is altered connective tissue, ie lung fibrosis develops. As a result of this process is disturbed lung function, they can not fully supply all the body of oxygen, so the heart has to work with a vengeance, which can not but have an effect on his condition.

Chronic pneumonia manifested cough, chest pain on the affected side, rarely - hemoptysis, small (low-grade) fever, general malaise, weakness. But more often in remission (non-acute) patients almost nothing disturbs. During exacerbation of pneumonia their condition worsens, feverish and coughing.

The treatment of both acute pneumonia and acute exacerbation of chronic pneumonia should be given only in a hospital.

Galina Romanenko