"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers" ~ L.M. Montgomery
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers" ~ L.M. Montgomery
Giovanni Papini
At Silver Lake our program of wellness is absolutely necessary for respiratory recovery. Understanding the breathing process is very important. We present to you information from the National Institute of Health, explaining why our approach is better and essential for a proper outcome.
Your lungs are the pair of spongy, pinkish-gray organs in your chest.
When you inhale (breathe in), air enters your lungs, and oxygen from that air moves to your blood. At the same time, carbon dioxide, a waste gas, moves from your blood to the lungs and is exhaled (breathed out). This process, called gas exchange, is essential to life.
The lungs are the centerpiece of your respiratory system. Your respiratory system also includes the trachea (windpipe), muscles of the chest wall and diaphragm, blood vessels, and other tissues. All of these parts make breathing and gas exchange possible. Your brain controls your breathing rate (how fast or slow you breathe), by sensing your body’s need to get oxygen and also get rid of carbon dioxide.
Healthy lifestyle habits, such as physical activity and not smoking, can help prevent lung injury and disease.
Your lungs are on each side of your heart, inside your chest cavity. They are the main organs of the respiratory system. The right lung is divided into three lobes (sections), and the left lung is divided into two lobes. Your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung, since your heart takes up some space on the left side. When
Your lungs are on each side of your heart, inside your chest cavity. They are the main organs of the respiratory system. The right lung is divided into three lobes (sections), and the left lung is divided into two lobes. Your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung, since your heart takes up some space on the left side. When you breathe in, air enters your airways and travels down into the air sacs, or alveoli, in your lungs. This is where gas exchange takes place.
The circulatory system, which is made up of the heart and blood vessels, supports the respiratory system by bringing blood to and from the lungs. The circulatory system helps deliver nutrients and oxygen from the lungs to tissues and organs throughout the body. It also helps remove carbon dioxide and waste products. Other body systems that work with the respiratory system include the nervous system, lymphatic system, and immune system.
The image shows an enlarged view of the airways and lungs, as well as the trachea; bronchial tubes, or bronchi; and bronchioles. The image also shows a close-up view of gas exchange at the alveoli. Blue arrows show oxygen in inhaled air passing into the bloodstream, and green arrows show the carbon dioxide from your body leaving the blo
The image shows an enlarged view of the airways and lungs, as well as the trachea; bronchial tubes, or bronchi; and bronchioles. The image also shows a close-up view of gas exchange at the alveoli. Blue arrows show oxygen in inhaled air passing into the bloodstream, and green arrows show the carbon dioxide from your body leaving the bloodstream. Medical Illustration Copyright © 2022 Nucleus Medical Media Inc. All rights reserved.
Airways
The airways are pipes that carry oxygen-rich air to the alveoli in your lungs. They also carry the waste gas carbon dioxide out of your lungs. The airways include these body parts:
· Mouth
· Nose and linked air passages called the nasal cavity and sinuses
· Larynx (voice box)
· Trachea (windpipe)
· Tubes called bronchial tubes, o
Airways
The airways are pipes that carry oxygen-rich air to the alveoli in your lungs. They also carry the waste gas carbon dioxide out of your lungs. The airways include these body parts:
· Mouth
· Nose and linked air passages called the nasal cavity and sinuses
· Larynx (voice box)
· Trachea (windpipe)
· Tubes called bronchial tubes, or bronchi, and their branches
· Smaller tubes called bronchioles that branch off of the bronchial tubes
Air comes into your body
Air first enters your body through your nose or mouth, which moistens and warms the air since cold, dry air can irritate your lungs. The air then travels past your voice box and down your windpipe. Rings of tough tissue, called cartilage, acts as a support to keep the bronchial tubes open.
Inside your lungs, the bronchial tubes branch into thousands of thinner tubes called bronchioles. The bronchioles end in clusters of tiny air sacs called alveoli.
Air fills your lung’s air sacs
Your lungs have about 150 million alveoli. Normally, your alveoli are elastic, meaning that their size and shape can change easily. Alveoli are able to easily expand and contract because their insides are coated with a substance called surfactant. Surfactant reduces the work it takes to breathe by helping the lungs inflate more easily when you breathe in. It also prevents the lungs from collapsing when you breathe out.
Each of these alveoli is made up of a mesh of tiny blood vessels called capillaries. The capillaries connect to a network of arteries and veins that move blood through your body.
Blood low in oxygen flows through the lungs
The pulmonary artery and its branches deliver blood to the capillaries that surround the alveoli. This blood is rich in carbon dioxide and low in oxygen.
Oxygen flows into your blood
Carbon dioxide moves from the blood into the air inside the alveoli. At the same time, oxygen moves from the air into the blood in the capillaries.
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Your lungs are on each side of your heart, inside your chest cavity. They are the main organs of the respiratory system. The right lung is divided into three lobes (sections), and the left lung is divided into two lobes. Your left lung is slightly smaller than your right lung, since your heart takes up some space on the left side. When you breathe in, air enters your airways and travels down into the air sacs, or alveoli, in your lungs. This is where gas exchange takes place.
The circulatory system, which is made up of the heart and blood vessels, supports the respiratory system by bringing blood to and from the lungs. The circulatory system helps deliver nutrients and oxygen from the lungs to tissues and organs throughout the body. It also helps remove carbon dioxide and waste products. Other body systems that work with the respiratory system include the nervous system, lymphatic system, and immune system.
The image shows an enlarged view of the airways and lungs, as well as the trachea; bronchial tubes, or bronchi; and bronchioles. The image also shows a close-up view of gas exchange at the alveoli. Blue arrows show oxygen in inhaled air passing into the bloodstream, and green arrows show the carbon dioxide from your body leaving the bloodstream. Medical Illustration Copyright © 2022 Nucleus Medical Media Inc. All rights reserved.
The airways are pipes that carry oxygen-rich air to the alveoli in your lungs. They also carry the waste gas carbon dioxide out of your lungs. The airways include these body parts:
· Mouth
· Nose and linked air passages called the nasal cavity and sinuses
· Larynx (voice box)
· Trachea (windpipe)
· Tubes called bronchial tubes, or bronchi, and their branches
· Smaller tubes called bronchioles that branch off of the bronchial tubes
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Air first enters your body through your nose or mouth, which moistens and warms the air since cold, dry air can irritate your lungs. The air then travels past your voice box and down your windpipe. Rings of tough tissue, called cartilage, acts as a support to keep the bronchial tubes open.
Inside your lungs, the bronchial tubes branch into thousands of thinner tubes called bronchioles. The bronchioles end in clusters of tiny air sacs called alveoli.
Your lungs have about 150 million alveoli. Normally, your alveoli are elastic, meaning that their size and shape can change easily. Alveoli are able to easily expand and contract because their insides are coated with a substance called surfactant. Surfactant reduces the work it takes to breathe by helping the lungs inflate more easily when you breathe in. It also prevents the lungs from collapsing when you breathe out.
Each of these alveoli is made up of a mesh of tiny blood vessels called capillaries. The capillaries connect to a network of arteries and veins that move blood through your body.
The pulmonary artery and its branches deliver blood to the capillaries that surround the alveoli. This blood is rich in carbon dioxide and low in oxygen.
Carbon dioxide moves from the blood into the air inside the alveoli. At the same time, oxygen moves from the air into the blood in the capillaries.
The main image shows the location of the lungs, pleura, and diaphragm.
An inset image shows a closer view of the two layers of the pleura and the pleural space.
The lungs are surrounded by the pleura, a membrane with two layers. The space between these two layers is called the pleural cavity. A slippery liquid called pleural fluid acts as a lubricant to reduce friction during breathing.
The body’s muscles and nervous system help control your breathing.
The lungs are like sponges; they cannot get bigger on their own. Muscles in your chest and abdomen tighten or contract to create a slight vacuum around the lungs. This causes air to flow in. When you exhale, the muscles relax and the lungs deflate on their own, much like an elastic balloon will deflate if left open to the air.
Your breathing muscles include:
Damage to the nerves in the upper spinal cord can interfere with the movement of your diaphragm and other muscles in your chest, neck, and abdomen. This can happen due to a spinal cord injury, a stroke, or a degenerative disease that affects the muscles, such as muscular dystrophy that causes muscle weakness or muscle loss. The damage can cause respiratory failure.
Ventilator support or oxygen therapy may be necessary to maintain oxygen levels in the body and protect the organs from damage.
Your breathing usually does not require any thought, because it is controlled by the autonomic nervous system, also called the involuntary nervous system.
Your breathing changes depending on how active you are and the condition of the air around you. For example, you need to breathe more often when you do physical activity. At times, you can control your breathing pattern, such as when you hold your breath or sing.
To help adjust your breathing to changing needs, your body has sensors that send signals to the breathing centers in the brain.
In central sleep apnea, the brain temporarily stops sending signals to the muscles needed to breathe.
Breathing involves two phases: breathing in and breathing out. If you have problems breathing, gas exchange may be impaired, which can be a serious health problem.
When you breathe in, or inhale, your diaphragm contracts and moves downward. This increases the space in your chest cavity, and your lungs expand into it. The muscles between your ribs also help enlarge the chest cavity. They contract to pull your rib cage both upward and outward when you inhale.
As your lungs expand, air is sucked in through your nose or mouth. The air travels down your trachea, or windpipe, and into your lungs. After passing through your bronchial tubes, the air travels to the alveoli, or air sacs.
Every time you breathe in, oxygen from the air you inhale passes through the thin walls of the alveoli into the surrounding capillaries, where red blood cells pick it up using a protein called hemoglobin. At the same time, carbon dioxide, the waste gas carried back to the lungs from the cells of the body, trades places with the oxygen, moving from the blood in the capillaries back into the alveoli.
Blood loaded up with oxygen-rich red blood cells travels to the left side of the heart through the pulmonary veins. The heart then pumps the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body, where it moves from your blood vessels to your cells. The cells need this oxygen to make the energy your body needs to work. When cells make that energy, they create the waste product carbon dioxide. That carbon dioxide has to be removed from the blood and the body, which is why it is pushed from the cells back to the blood.
The carbon dioxide, once in the bloodstream, travels back to the heart, where it enters the right side. From there, it travels through the pulmonary artery to the lungs, where it flows from the capillaries back into the alveoli in exchange for the incoming oxygen. From the alveoli, the carbon dioxide is breathed back out.
How the Heart Works includes information about blood flow and the heart’s role in these processes.
Learn what happens in your lungs when you breathe in and breathe out. Medical Animation Copyright © 2022 Nucleus Medical Media Inc.
All rights reserved.
When you breathe out, or exhale, your diaphragm and rib muscles relax, reducing the space in the chest cavity. As the chest cavity gets smaller, your lungs deflate, similar to how air releases from a balloon. At the same time, carbon dioxide-rich air flows out of your lungs through the windpipe and then out of your nose or mouth.
Breathing out requires no effort from your body unless you have a lung disease or are doing physical activity. When you are physically active, your abdominal muscles contract and push your diaphragm against your lungs even more than usual. This rapidly pushes air out of your lungs.
Damage, infection, or inflammation in the lungs or airways or both,
can lead to the following conditions:
Exposure to cigarette smoke, air pollutants, or other substances can damage the airways, and can make a condition you already have more serious.
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