BREATHLESSNESS

 Have you heard about Postural as Medicine?

Postural Medicine : For patient’s with Low SPO2  band breathlessness Prone Ventilation is effective.

Make the patient to lie on his stomach.

This position results in the weight of the lungs falling on the heart rather than the heart’s weight on the lungs.

As the gravity of the heart does not affect the working of the lungs, the capacity of the lungs to inhale oxygen increases by 20% which makes the difference between life and death of the patient.

Alternatively, we ask the patient to sit in a forward inclined position with a hand-held fan in his hand.

Within 5 minutes the patient’s SPO2 increases, his breathlessness vanishes and his condition stabilizes

Instead of putting a patient on a ventilator if we instead put him on a Prone Position, his life can be saved.

 Infants less than one year of age require a different mechanism to improve their health.

Their body is still under developed and their internal structure of the mouth and nose area known as the pharyngeal space is differently constructed

Therefore, they must not be put in a prone position as their pharyngeal space starts collapsing which can even lead to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (S.I.D.S)