how to increase oxygen level at home

Practice breathing exercises.

Pulmonary rehabilitation experts recommend using simple breathing exercises like pursed-lip breathing and deep belly breathing to open your airways and increase the amount of oxygen in your body.

The blood in your body delivers oxygen to all of your cells. When you breathe and draw fresh oxygen into your lungs, red blood cells bind with the oxygen and carry it through your bloodstream. On a cellular level, oxygen helps replace cells that wear out, supplies you with energy, supports your immune system, and more. That's why it's important to make sure your blood oxygen level isn't too high or too low. 

You can naturally increase your blood oxygen level or discuss different methods with your doctor to maintain or elevate your blood oxygen level.

How Is Blood Oxygen Level Measured?

You measure blood oxygen, also called oxygen saturation, with a pulse oximeter. It's a small device that clips to your finger (or another part of your body) and determines the ratio of red blood cells that are carrying oxygen to those that are empty.

Checking or monitoring blood oxygen levels is non-invasive and doesn't hurt. There are no known risks or dangers of using a pulse oximeter to measure your blood oxygen level.

A pulse oximeter emits light that passes through your fingernail, skin, tissue, and blood to a sensor on the other side. The device measures how much light passed through without being absorbed by tissue and blood. It then uses that measurement to calculate how much oxygen is in your blood.

What Are Typical Levels of Blood Oxygen?

Your blood oxygen level helps you know how well your lungs, heart, and circulatory system work. A typical blood oxygen level for a healthy person ranges between 95% and 100%. This means that nearly all of the red blood cells are carrying oxygen to your cells and tissues. 

electronic equipment at home

 Top 10 Must Have Electronic Appliances You Can't Live Without

• Air Conditioner. Many parts of India experience harsh weather conditions throughout the year and cases during summer are even worst. 
• Washing Machine. 
• Refrigerator. 
• Induction Stove. 
• Vacuum Cleaner. 
• Camera. 
• Microwave Oven. 
• Water Purifier.

  Home Electronics 

  Reading your monthly electric bill, you would know if you stopped using your air conditioner since the previous month, but you may not notice if you stopped watching television, because electronic appliances don’t use as much energy by themselves. Their energy use often goes unnoticed. But as it turns out, an estimated 10% to 15% of all electricity used in American homes can be attributed to the buzz of electronic devices, not because they use a lot of energy, but because of their sheer numbers. As electronics use continues to proliferate, and as new products with higher energy demands hit the market, the overall portion of the household energy budget devoted to electronics is expected to grow.

  Thinking About Power Modes | Power Supplies | Home Entertainment Equipment | Computers and Home Office Equipment | Portable Electronics

  The vast majority of home electronics energy use — up to 90% by some estimates — is consumed by home entertainment systems and home office equipment. The remaining 10% consists of many small energy users, including portable devices with battery chargers. Although each of these products uses a relatively small amount of electricity on an individual basis, they continue to proliferate rapidly and represent an opportunity to keep overall electronics energy use in check.

  Thinking About Power Modes

  To minimize the energy used by home electronics, it is helpful first to understand their operating modes and how power consumption varies by mode. This will make it easier to understand the opportunities for saving energy in the many different electronics products you most likely have in your home.

  For starters, it is helpful to understand the true meaning of “on” and “off” as applied to electronics. It’s rarely that simple! Unlike a light switch that turns a lamp or fixture on or off, many electronics products operate in two, three, or even four modes, and even continue to draw power when apparently turned off. Commonly identified modes and their definitions are shown in the table below. Home electronics use power in standby and off modes to support features such as instant-on, remote control, channel memory, and LED clock displays. Common electronics components, like power supplies and battery chargers, contribute to standby and off-mode power consumption and also impact a product’s in-use energy consumption.

  
  

Abdominal pain

Pain from inside the abdomen or the outer muscle wall, ranging from mild and temporary to severe and requiring emergency care. 

 COMMON CAUSES 

 Abdominal pain can have causes that aren't due to underlying disease. Examples include constipation, wind, overeating, stress or muscle strain.

What causes abdominal pain?

Abdominal pain is caused by inflammation of an organ (for example, appendicitis, diverticulitis, colitis), by stretching or distention of an organ (for example, obstruction of the intestine, blockage of a bile duct by gallstones, swelling of the liver with hepatitis), or by loss of the supply of blood to an organ (for example, ischemic colitis).

To complicate matters, however, abdominal pain also can occur without inflammation, distention or loss of blood supply. An important example of the latter is the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). It is not clear what causes the belly pain in IBS, but it is believed to be due either to abnormal contractions of the intestinal muscles (for example, spasm) or abnormally sensitive nerves within the intestines that give rise to painful sensations inappropriately (visceral hyper-sensitivity). This often is referred to as functional pain because no recognizable specific abnormality to account for the cause of the pain has been found - at least not yet.

How did the pain begin?

• If it comes on suddenly, this may suggest a problem with an organ within the belly; for example, the interruption of the supply of blood to the colon (ischemia) or obstruction of the bile duct by a gallstone (biliary colic).

• Where is the pain located?

  • Appendicitis typically causes discomfort in the middle of the abdomen, and then moves to the right lower abdomen, the usual location of the appendix.
  • Diverticulitis typically causes discomfort in the left lower abdomen where most colonic diverticula are located.
  • Discomfort from the gallbladder (biliary colic or cholecystitis) typically is felt in the middle, upper abdomen, or the right upper abdomen near where the gallbladder is located.

  What is the type and pattern of the pain?

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  • Is it severe, crampy, steady; or does it wax and wane? Obstruction of the intestine initially causes waves of crampy pain due to contractions of the intestinal muscles and distention of the intestine. True cramp-like pain suggests vigorous contractions of the intestines.
  • Obstruction of the bile ducts by gallstonestypically causes steady (constant) upper belly pain that lasts between 30 minutes and several hours.
  • Acute pancreatitis typically causes severe, unrelenting, steady pain in the upper abdomen and upper back.
  • The pain of acute appendicitis initially may start near the umbilicus, but as the inflammation progresses, it moves to the right lower abdomen.
  • The character of pain may change over time. For example, obstruction of the bile ducts sometimes progresses to inflammation of the gallbladder with or without infection (acute cholecystitis). When this happens, the characteristics change to those of inflammatory pain.

  How long does the pain last?

  • The discomfort of IBS typically waxes and wanes over months or years and may last for years or decades.
  • Biliary colic lasts no more than several hours.
  • The pain of pancreatitis lasts one or more days.  
  • What makes the pain worse?

• Pain due to inflammation (appendicitis, diverticulitis, cholecystitis, and pancreatitis) typically is aggravated by sneezing, coughing, or any jarring motion. Individuals with inflammation prefer to lie still.
• What health conditions make abdominal pain worse or better?
  

SELF-TREATMENT

Taking an antacid or anti-wind medication and eating smaller meals may help to relieve heartburn or wind. It's best to avoid taking aspirin or ibuprofen as these medications can worsen some abdominal pain.

SEEKING MEDICAL CARE

See a doctor immediately if you:

Feel severe pain that worsens with movement

Develop a fever

Vomit or have bloody diarrhoea

Experience abdominal swelling

Have chest pain or pressure

Make an appointment to see a doctor if you

Have recurring or persistent pain

Can't sleep because of pain.