Learn your Normal Blood Oxygen Level

Having a good physical appearance and maintaining a good condition of the body is vital for a person’s health. Monitoring your health requires a lot of process and to maintain it you need to watch over some statistics on your body. If you’re an athlete or a mountain climber, your blood oxygen level might decreased caused by high altitudes and exercise.

Therefore, you might need to monitor your oxygen blood level. The blood oxygen is measured on how many oxygen your red blood cells are carrying. If at rest, a human body almost regulates its blood oxygen level. To check your blood oxygen if it’s on normal status, you might need to have a device for oxygen meter finger which is often called Pulse Oximetry. This pulse oximetry is a medical device in charge of measurement of oxygen saturation by determining the pulse rate of an arterial blood that’s usually present on our fingertip, this might be called also as oxymeter finger pulse.

Most of the people don’t need to monitor blood oxygen level of their body. If you’re only experiencing lung problem like shortness of breath and chest pain that’s the time doctors need to check your oxygen saturation.

A healthy adult would range from 94-99% breathing room air would be normal which contains 21% oxygen but some instances especially if you have lung problem, your doctor will tell you what would be normal for you.

 If your blood oxygen level is below normal this might cause problems in a person’s health. Having this low blood oxygen level is called hypoxemia and this might often cause complications. To increase your oxygen level you might need to boost your oxygen saturation and often done by supplemental oxygen. Having low oxygen level is caused by health condition like asthma, anemia or usually heart disease. These conditions will let your lungs to have a hard time inhaling oxygen.

If your breathing is unassisted, therefore it’s difficult for your oxygen levels to be too high. Your blood oxygen level is above normal. High oxygen level might occur on a person who usually use supplemental oxygen and often occurred on some cases. Having a high oxygen level can be tested on an arterial blood gas. This kind of measurement will get blood sample from your artery rather that vein. Arteries have a pulse that can be felt unlike veins and blood drawn from arteries is oxygenated unlike in your veins that isn’t.

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