2007-01-16 11:43:43 · 9 answers · asked by Chelsea 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
DO NOT breather into a paper bag during an asthma attack! You already have an overload of carbon dioxide in your system and paper bagging will only make it worse. Fast-acting inhalers reduce syptoms by expanding the airways. If you're having asthma symptoms and don't have an inhaler handy the best thing you can do is get in a place with warm, humid air like a bathroom with a hot shower running and SLOWLY breathe the steam while trying to relax. If you don't get better in half an hour at the most go to the emergency room.
2007-01-16 11:53:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. Breathing into a paper bag is not for an asthmatic, but more for a person whose chest literally squeezes in onto their lungs when they're stressed. It's just a way to calm themselves--you know, rythmic their breathing, count to ten... something like that. If anything, breathing into a paper bag will limit an asthma sufferer's oxygen intake and only make it that much harder to breathe.
2007-01-16 11:50:12 · answer #2 · answered by dumbelle 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, if you're asthmatic you need air forced into your lungs which a paper bag cannot do. Inhalers puff air in becasue your airways are too restricted to inhale on your own. Paper bags are used to keep you from breathing in and out too much and hyperventilating.
2007-01-16 11:47:40 · answer #3 · answered by #1 Buckeye Fan!!!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No breathing in a paper bag is like putting spray paint into a bag and inhaling don't ever do that beacusse yooh can dye inhaling a air that is not good for ur body we have a certain different type of oxgen we have to breath in
2007-01-16 11:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by Tori cakes 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sunflare6 is correct. I have asthma and if I am in a hyper-ventilating moment (meaning I am panic breathing) then I am taking in too much oxygen and can pass out. Breathing in and out of the paper bag with reduce the problem....slow my panic breathing down and then I can revert to my rescue inhaler or my nebulizer treatment. Good job sunflare6!!!!
2007-01-16 11:54:22 · answer #5 · answered by missellie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you are having an asthma attack you are not gettin enuff oxygen in your system, and breathing into a paper bag means your depleting yourself of oxygen. use your inhaler... its safer.
2007-01-16 11:49:02 · answer #6 · answered by sassy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't see any help by doing it, if your having trouble breathing, then the last thing you want to do is restrict it any further.
2007-01-16 11:49:02 · answer #7 · answered by Dale 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it will keep u from hyper venilating
2007-01-16 11:47:31 · answer #8 · answered by sunflare63 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Talk to your doctor - but I don't think so.
2007-01-16 11:47:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋