People with healthy lungs can generally hold their breath longer than this number. Check yourself, have you met the standard?
Many people have the habit of smoking, not only men, but more and more women are also starting to smoke. Are your lungs okay? Every time I see someone who smokes, I always want to ask if your lungs are okay? The lungs are an important organ of the body. They are in charge of the respiratory system. If the lungs are not good, breathing will be affected, and sudden respiratory arrest will even affect life and health. Therefore, we need to pay attention to lung health. People who smoke for a long time, dare to come and test, are your lungs still healthy?
How to self-assess lung health?
It is very simple to measure the lung capacity. If the lungs are very healthy, the lung capacity is generally relatively large, and the lung capacity test can be simply performed by holding your breath. Perform a simple breath-holding test correctly, prepare clean water, take a breath first, then enter the water, hold the breath for more than 40 seconds, indicating that the lungs are very healthy. Generally, people with damaged lungs will not hold their breath for more than 40 seconds.
Long-term smokers, may wish to test to see if they can last for 40 seconds? During the test, it is best to have someone with you for safety reasons. This is an easy way to measure lung health, but it's not necessarily accurate. If there is discomfort in the lungs, the body will also give 3 tips to help better judge the lung condition.
Whether the lungs are good or not can also be judged from these three aspects
Check breathing
The lungs are the main part of the respiratory system and it affects the breathing of the human body. If the lungs are abnormal, there will be certain symptoms of dyspnea, shortness of breath, and difficulty breathing. Generally, when we get up in the morning, the breathing state is the best. If these symptoms of breathing difficulties still occur, be careful that the lungs are damaged.
Check for chest pain
Chest pain is a relatively common phenomenon. When the heart is abnormal, chest pain often occurs. When expelling heart problems, it is necessary to consider the health of the lungs. When we breathe, the diaphragm is active. Once the lungs are damaged, breathing is affected, and the movement of the diaphragm is also affected, resulting in chest pain. Therefore, whether the lungs are good or not can also be judged by chest pain.
Check the cough
The typical symptom of lung discomfort is cough. The degree of lung damage varies with the degree of cough. Severe lung disease, will keep coughing, hemoptysis and so on. There are also many small problems with coughs, such as colds, in order to distinguish them. Generally, smokers or elderly people who cough continuously for more than three weeks should consider lung injury and need to be checked in time.
In normal times, we can perform lung health tests through the above methods to help us better understand the condition of our lungs, which is also beneficial to our own health. Especially for smokers, they should pay more attention to self-testing to help them understand their lung health at all times.
What should I pay attention to in daily lung care?
Try to avoid heavily polluted areas, stay away from second-hand smoke, and reduce the intake of toxins;
Drink more tea, catechins can help remove waste and toxins from the lungs and blood vessels, and help the body detoxify;
Do the chest expansion exercise, raise your arms, then keep the palms down, and then slowly return to the chest and then return to the original position. When performing the chest expansion exercise, you need to breathe at the same time to activate the lungs .
Lung health is very important to the human body. Once the lungs are injured and breathing is affected, it is very detrimental to our physical health. You might as well try to test whether your lungs are healthy. When you get up in the morning, open the window to take a deep breath, absorb fresh air, expel dirty air, and your lungs will be healthier.