Dr. Simon Rego answers the question: 'How Might Stress Affect Breathing?' — -- Question: How might stress affect my breathing? What is so-called 'hyperventilation'? Answer: Hyperventilation is ...

Anxiety is a normal emotional reaction to stress, but when it reaches overwhelming levels, it can cause physical symptoms that feel threatening, and one among them is hyperventilation.

Dysfunctional breathing (DB) and hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) are conditions marked by abnormal respiratory patterns that occur in the absence of overt organic lung pathology. These disorders often ...

Hyperventilation is characterised by a rapid or deep breathing that usually occurs with anxiety or panic. Also known as overbreathing, the condition can leave you breathless. The symptoms of ...

The body has a set of physiological responses to danger: the pupils dilate, respiration deepens, heart rate and blood pressure rise, muscles tense for action. The gastro-intestinal system reacts also.

A new treatment program teaches people who suffer from panic disorder how to reduce the terrorizing symptoms by normalizing their breathing. The method has proved better than traditional cognitive ...

In 13 patients, free of cardiopulmonary disease, who had been subjected to hyperventilation for an average of two and three-quarters hours during anesthesia and operation, spontaneous breathing began ...

September 13, 2012 — Breathing techniques designed to reduce hyperventilation may improve asthma symptoms and reduce medication use in adults with poorly controlled asthma, although the evidence ...

Hyperventilation (hyper - too much, ventilation - breathing) is a condition in which a person experiences abnormal, increased rate and depth of breathing, for a prolonged period. When they begin to ...

We do it on average 20,000 times a day, but most of us pay little attention to our breathing. Yet studies show one in ten ­Britons ­suffer from problems such as over-breathing or hyperventilation.