How to self-test lung health?
It's simple. It's measuring vital capacity. If the lungs are healthy, the general lung capacity is relatively large, and you can simply test the lung capacity by holding your breath. Correctly carry out a simple breath-holding test, prepare clean water, take a breath first, then enter the water and hold your breath for more than 40 seconds, indicating that your lungs are very healthy. Generally, people with lung injury will not hold their breath for more than 40 seconds.
Long-term smokers might as well do a test to see if they can last for 40 seconds. In the process of testing, it is best to be accompanied for safety. This is a very simple method to measure lung health, but it is not necessarily accurate. When the lungs are uncomfortable, the body will also give three tips to help better judge the lung condition.
Whether the lungs are good or not can also be judged from these three aspects.
Look at the breath
The lung is the main part of the respiratory system, which will affect the human body's breathing. When the lungs are abnormal, there will be some dyspnea, shortness of breath, dyspnea and so on. Generally, when we get up in the morning, our breathing state is the best. If these breathing difficulties still occur, be careful of our lung damage.
See if you have chest pain.
Chest pain is a common phenomenon. Chest pain often occurs when the heart is abnormal. In order to eliminate heart problems, lung health should be considered. When we breathe, the diaphragm moves. Once the lungs are damaged, breathing is affected, and diaphragm movement is also affected, chest pain will occur. Therefore, whether the lungs are good or not can also be judged by chest pain.
Look at that cough.
The typical symptom of lung discomfort is cough. The degree of lung injury is different, so is the degree of cough. If the lung disease is serious, you will keep coughing and coughing up blood. There are many ailments that can also cause cough, such as colds, for the sake of distinction. General smokers or elderly people who cough for more than three weeks in a row should consider lung injury and need to be examined in time.
Usually, lung health examination can be carried out by the above methods, which is helpful to better understand the lung situation and is beneficial to health. People who smoke, in particular, should pay more attention to self-examination, help themselves to know their lung health at all times, and also pay attention to maintaining their lungs in daily life.
What should I pay attention to in daily lung care?
Try to avoid heavily polluted areas, stay away from second-hand smoke and reduce toxin intake;
Drink more tea, catechin can help clear the garbage and toxins in the lungs and blood vessels, and help the body detoxify;
Do chest expansion exercises, raise your arms, then palm down, then slowly return to your chest and back to your original position. When doing chest expansion exercise, you need to breathe at the same time to make your lungs move.
Lung health is very important to the human body. Once the lungs are injured, breathing will be affected, which is very bad for our health. Try to test whether your lungs are healthy. Get up in the morning, open the window and take a deep breath, absorb fresh air, expel dirty air, and make the lungs healthier.