Description goitre Goiter is an enlarged thyroid gland. Zoom can be for many reasons, the most famous being iodine deficiency. It may or may not be associated with impaired thyroid function. This increase may cause minor problems, such as difficulty…
shortness of breath
Other names: bradypnoea, slow breathing, abnormal shortness of breath, decreased respiratory rate
Normal breaths per minute for an adult is 12 to 20 If a deceleration below 12 / min, we are talking about slow breathing or bradypnoea. It is normal especially in trained athletes at rest, or in some people in a state of mental and physical relaxation and sleep.
Shortness of breath may be a sign of malfunction of the respiratory centers in the brainstem, or othercentral nervous system disorders.
It is also a reflection of the so-called. Metabolic alkalosis, or pathological changes in the internal environment to alkaline (eg. Due to renal failure).
May also be present with dyspnea (e.g. when an attack of asthma because of extreme elongation expiration).
Is a specific symptom of poisoning by opioids, heroin, cough medicines (containing codeine), soothing drugs and other substances having an effect on the respiratory center.
After the trauma of the chest (eg. Contusion after a fall) may be breathing accompanied by pain.The patient then breath trying to reduce to an absolute minimum. It is appropriate to administer painkillers.
If there are other signs present, and difficulties may be shortness of breath taken as normal.However, if accompanied by an impaired consciousness, nausea, mental disorders or other serious symptoms, it is appropriate for the affected call an ambulance or him (in less serious condition) transported to the emergency room.
Sicknesses with this symptom:
Heart Failure
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Rheumatic fever
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Malnutrition
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Pneumothorax
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Carcinoid
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Whooping cough
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Botulism
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Arrhythmias
Description arrhythmia The cardiac muscle cells are groups which have a different role than all of cardiac muscle cells.Formed in them repeatedly impulses that spreads to other cells to spread throughout the heart and thus leads to repeated contractions of…