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Reading about this virus it seems to settle in the lungs or makes breathing very difficult. Ive been hospitalized a few times and always have been given breathing exercises to do especially before surgery.
Working your lungs out now may be beneficial in the future if you contract the virus or not. Im 67 had a few heart attacks, a quadruple bypass, aortic repair...whatever. Ive practiced meditation and yoga for maybe 20 years. Deep breathing is part of those two practices therefore I recognize its importance. It has helped me through those instances listed above and quells stress and depressive thoughts now.
It was always stressed to me do breathing exercises now...help ward off pneumonia later.
Im hoping some of DUs finest with medical knowledge help to expand this post.
Heres s one place to start...
https://www.lung.org/lung-health-and-diseases/protecting-your-lungs/breathing-exercises.html
leftieNanner
(15,124 posts)I have my annual case of pleurisy and it's been freaking me out. I'll study your link.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)My husband is high risk, so I dug out the spirometer (breathing exercise device) they gave him at the hospital last summer and he is using it daily now. I then thought it wouldnt hurt me, so I dug up a second one we had tucked away. You dont need the spirometer to do breathing exercises.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)especially now with covid-19 which attacks lungs more than any other organ.
Simply take a deep breath, hold it as long as possible, then exhale.
Repeat 10 times in morning and evening.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Watched on you tube one of the people aboard the ship off of Japan used a lung exercise to help his breathing improve when he got bad.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Raftergirl
(1,287 posts)The breathing part is very important, not only for physical health but for mental health too.
Even if you dont want to do the pose part, just do the breathing part.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Blecht
(3,803 posts)zackymilly
(2,375 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)Spot on.
jorgevlorgan
(8,301 posts)highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)Prosper
(761 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)Kick post a reply, could be as little as ... meaning no words
Rec of course is hitting the Rec button
For both and no input but like the post...K&R ...Kick and Rec
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)previous reply (or since the OP was posted; not sure which).
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)actually kick an old thread back to page 1. Not sure how long a time kicking works with threads, but after a certain point it doesn't. So I've been linking to it where it seemed helpful.
And I also posted it in the Health group, as one of the people replying suggested, and it's still on page 1 there:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1142
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)Guess then re-posting is the only way.