i quit smoking 4 months ago with nhs group. i have lung readings every few weeks and it should be between 1-5 5 being absolute max and it is reading 6 this time and 9 the last it really should be between 1-2 after all this time.
2007-01-05 04:18:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
This could be the sign of something else. CO is normally created from incomplete combustion. From cigarettes to a furnace to a vehicle. It's binds with the hemoglobin 300% easier than o2 does. that's how it can hurt you. but the only treatment for a CO patient really is high flow O2 for a while to get the O2 sat up.
I'm not sure what scale you're talking on... but it's something that you may want to talk with your doctor more about. when we check CO levels, we're looking at a parts per million reading. anything over 50ppm is cause for further investigation.
maybe getting some O2 regularly will help purge it from your system. check with your doc though. good luck!
2007-01-05 05:43:04 · answer #1 · answered by Parallam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
drive much?
the smoke from cigarettes is similar to the components of fossil fuels.
I smoke cigarettes for medicinal purposes, because i am allergic to fossil fuels burning biproducts.
My doctor thinks i'm strange to be harmed by carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide etc from burned fuels.
The cigarette components are very similar, with the difference that the tobacco is from live organics and therefore still more biodegradable, than the already biodegraded hydrocarbons that was alive like us once but has decomposed to the max and nothing alive can come out of it.
Because the two are so similar, the tobacco smoke with its organics in tars etc has an ability to form a membrane (coat your lungs) this membrane mixes with the hydrocarbon fumes that you breathe all day long, and much of the autofumes gets stuck in it, never actually entering your own biology beyond your lungs before it's exhaled.
You can cough up enough broun chunks to see and if you learn how clear the film or part of it out on a regular basis, but the hydrocarbon fumes adhere more to the biology and directly enter it without forming a film or membrane of tar you can expell.
In otherwords you are letting more in now from auto fumes etc that the protection from your cigarettes is missing or thinning.
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2007-01-05 04:46:24 · answer #2 · answered by old_brain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carbon monoxide (CO) builds up over time and needs just that (time) to be expelled from the body. Stay away from cigarettes and cigarette smoke, exercise regularly, and that will help to eliminate the CO from your lungs and bloodstream.
2007-01-05 04:21:31 · answer #3 · answered by vamedic4 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
live with a smoker? hang out in bars? check the heating system?
2007-01-05 04:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by David B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you around any other smokers on a day to day basis?
2007-01-05 04:28:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't run your vehicles engine in confined spaces.
2007-01-05 04:26:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋