Why Covid-19 Patients May Experience Hidden Symptoms Of Happy Hypoxia All pages

KOMPAS.com – Happy hypoxia, which is said to cause Covid-19 patients to die without symptoms, worries the public.

The President of the Indonesian Pulmonary Doctors Association (PDPI), Agus Dwi Susanto, said that, in fact, in general, when there is an infection in the lungs and lung tissue, hypoxemia is quite possible.

Hypoxemia is a condition of low oxygen levels in the blood. Meanwhile, hypoxia is a result that occurs when low oxygen levels reach the blood tissues.

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Generally, someone who has hypoxemia actually has a disorder or complaint, which includes the following.

– Difficulty breathing

– I’m tired

– Dizziness, headaches and even fainting.

– shorter breathing (dyspnea)

– Breathe faster (tachypnea)

– Cough

– Acceleration of the heart rate or frequency

– Changes in skin color may be blue on the fingertips and lips.

– The body loses its balance

Meanwhile in silence hypoxemia or widely known as happy hypoxia It is a condition of low oxygen saturation in the blood and tissues, but it does not present symptoms or physical discomfort.

Ironically, happy hypoxia This is reported to cause death without symptoms in patients who are positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Then why happy hypoxia or silence Can hypoxemia occur in patients with Covid-19?

Agus emphasized that, until now, there has been no clear and definite scientific explanation regarding the happy hypoxia experienced by patients who are positively infected with Covid-19.

“However, a hypothesis or a theory from several journals states that there is the possibility of a disruption of the receptor system and the distance in the nervous network that alerts the central nervous system,” Agus explained to Kompas.com, on Thursday (9 / 3/2020).

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Under normal conditions, when a person has low levels of oxygen in their blood, it will affect the receptors in their blood vessels.

These receptors will cause a warning in the nervous area to the central nervous system, causing a response or feeling of lack of air.

Then the central nervous system will also respond to how to increase the oxygen in our blood, that is, increasing the frequency of breaths and causing a feeling of lack of air.

Agus said that naturally our bodies will respond to the physiology that has been created when hypoxemia occurs in the body.

So when the blood in the body is deprived of oxygen with a saturation below 94, there will be a response mechanism from the body through the central nervous system in the brain.

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The central nervous system in the brain is what will command oxygen levels to increase with increasing frequency of breaths.

“That is why if we are short of breath, we usually have difficulty breathing, the number of breaths increases,” he said.

The respiratory rate in normal conditions can occur from 15 to 20 per minute. Meanwhile, in conditions of shortness of breath, the rate of respiration can increase to around 30-50 per minute.

“That is a form of the body’s response, how the body increases the amount of oxygen it takes in, but that did not happen in the case of Covid-19,” he said.

Therefore, Agus explained the temporary suspicion of the cause. silence hypoxemia or happy hypoxia in patients with Covid-19 it is the influence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself.

“Meanwhile, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is suspected of interfering with receptors in the neural mechanism,” Agus said.

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