What may increase your risk of a problem from hyperventilation?
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What may increase your risk of a problem from hyperventilation?
Many conditions, lifestyle choices, medicines, and diseases interfere with your ability to heal or fight disease. You may be at risk for a more serious problem from your symptoms if you have any of the following. Be sure to tell your health professional.
Conditions
- Age older than 60
- A head injury within the past 4 weeks
- A mental health problem, such as an anxiety disorder or depression
- High altitude
- Pregnancy or recent delivery
- Surgery to remove the spleen
Lifestyle choices
- Alcohol abuse or withdrawal
- Drug abuse or withdrawal
- Smoking or other tobacco use
Medicines
- Amphetamines
- Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicines
- Beta2-agonist medicines, such as albuterol, aminophylline, ephedrine, epinephrine, terbutaline, and theophylline
- Progesterone
Diseases
- Anemia
- Asthma
- Cancer
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- Diabetes
- Heart arrhythmias
- Heart disease
- Heart failure
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Kidney disease
- Liver disease
- Lung disease
- Panic disorder
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary edema
- Pulmonary embolus
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Sepsis
- Sickle cell disease
- Stroke
- Thyroid problems, such as Graves' disease and hyperthyroidism
Credits
| Author | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Tracy Landauer |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Lisa S. Weinstock, MD - Psychiatry |
| Last Updated | September 12, 2008 |
| Last updated: | September 12, 2008 |
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| Author: | Jan Nissl, RN, BS |
| Reviewed By: | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine, Lisa S. Weinstock, MD - Psychiatry |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer |
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