What is Oxygen Therapy?

Are you experiencing rapid breathing, shortness of breath, fast heart rate, coughing or wheezing, sweating, confusion, or changes in your skin color?  If you answered yes, did you know that oxygen is an effective medication for various chronic respiratory conditions?  Conditions like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Pulmonary Fibrosis, Cystic Fibrosis, Pneumonia, Severe Asthma, and Sleep Apnea.  Whether you or someone you know lives with a chronic respiratory disease, you may be curious about what medical equipment providing oxygen therapy can do.    

Medical oxygen is a potent medication of 99% oxygen instead of the 21% you’d get without the assistance.    So what happens when you take in additional oxygen?  The oxygen flows through your body when your lungs have trouble absorbing enough on their own.  Yes, oxygen therapy’s primary purpose is to help you breathe, but it does much more than meets the eye. It affects both your cardiovascular system and your lungs.  The oxygen enters your lungs then transfers to your blood.  From that point, it gets pumped through your body for different cells and organs to use.  Ultimately the goal of oxygen therapy is to keep your blood oxygen saturation at a healthy level when your lungs can’t do it alone.

Oxygen therapy reduces your risk for heart disease and other health complications, improves your respiratory symptoms, makes exercise less difficult, improves alertness and cognitive function, improves recovery from COPD exacerbations, helps with quality sleep, and may enhance your chance of survival if you have COPD.

In need of oxygen supplies? Visit Rice Village Medical Supply to order your medical supplies now.  Our oxygen therapy and oxygen therapy accessories range from oxygen concentrators, pulse oximeters, oxygen cylinder stands, portable oxygen concentrators, oxygen tubing, oxygen analyzers, and more!

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