In our body, oxygen is responsible for the process of energy production. In our cells, oxygenation occurs only thanks to oxygen - the conversion of nutrients (fats and lipids) into cell energy. When the partial pressure (content) of oxygen in the inhaled level decreases, its level in the blood decreases - the activity of the body at the cellular level decreases. It is known that more than 20% of oxygen is consumed by the brain. Oxygen deficiency contributes. Accordingly, when oxygen levels drop, well-being, performance, general tone, and immunity suffer.
It is also important to know that it is oxygen that can remove toxins from the body.
Please note that in all foreign films, in the event of an accident or a person in serious condition, emergency doctors first of all put on an oxygen apparatus to the victim in order to increase the body’s resistance and increase his chances of survival.
The therapeutic effects of oxygen have been known and used in medicine since the end of the 18th century. In the USSR, the active use of oxygen for preventive purposes began in the 60s of the last century.

Hypoxia or oxygen starvation- reduced oxygen content in the body or individual organs and tissues. Hypoxia occurs when there is a lack of oxygen in the inhaled air and in the blood, when the biochemical processes of tissue respiration are disrupted. Due to hypoxia in vital important organs irreversible changes develop. The most sensitive to oxygen deficiency are the central nervous system, heart muscle, kidney tissue, and liver.
Manifestations of hypoxia are respiratory failure, shortness of breath; dysfunction of organs and systems.

Sometimes you can hear that “Oxygen is an oxidizing agent that accelerates the aging of the body.”
Here, from the correct premise, the wrong conclusion is drawn. Yes, oxygen is an oxidizing agent. Only thanks to it are nutrients from food processed into energy in the body.
The fear of oxygen is associated with two exceptional properties of it: free radicals and poisoning due to excess pressure.

1. What are free radicals?
Some of the huge number of constantly occurring oxidative (energy-producing) and reduction reactions of the body are not completed to the end, and then substances are formed with unstable molecules that have unpaired electrons at the outer electronic levels, called “free radicals”. They try to grab the missing electron from any other molecule. This molecule, turning into a free radical, steals an electron from the next one, and so on..
Why is this necessary? A certain amount of free radicals, or oxidants, is vital for the body. First of all, to combat harmful microorganisms. Free radicals are used immune system as “projectiles” against “interventionists”. Normally in the human body 5% formed during chemical reactions substances become free radicals.
Scientists call the main reasons for the disruption of natural biochemical balance and the increase in the number of free radicals emotional stress, heavy physical exercise, injuries and exhaustion due to air pollution, consumption of canned and technologically incorrectly processed foods, vegetables and fruits grown with the help of herbicides and pesticides, ultraviolet and radiation exposure.

Thus, aging is a biological process of slowing down cell division, and free radicals erroneously associated with aging are natural and necessary defense mechanisms for the body, and their harmful effects are associated with disruption of natural processes in the body by negative factors environment and stress.

2. “It’s easy to get poisoned with oxygen.”
Indeed, excess oxygen is dangerous. Excess oxygen causes an increase in the amount of oxidized hemoglobin in the blood and a decrease in the amount of reduced hemoglobin. And, since it is the reduced hemoglobin that removes carbon dioxide, its retention in tissues leads to hypercapnia - CO2 poisoning.
With an excess of oxygen, the number of free radical metabolites increases, those same terrible “free radicals” that are highly active, acting as oxidizing agents that can damage biological membranes cells.

Terrible, isn't it? I immediately want to stop breathing. Fortunately, in order to become oxygen poisoned, you need increased oxygen pressure, such as in a pressure chamber (during oxygen barotherapy) or when diving with special breathing mixtures. IN ordinary life such situations do not occur.

3. “There is little oxygen in the mountains, but there are many centenarians! Those. oxygen is harmful."
Indeed, in the Soviet Union, a number of centenarians were registered in the mountainous regions of the Caucasus and Transcaucasia. If you look at the list of verified (i.e. confirmed) centenarians of the world throughout its history, the picture will not be so obvious: the oldest centenarians registered in France, the USA and Japan did not live in the mountains..

In Japan, where the oldest woman on the planet, Misao Okawa, who is already more than 116 years old, still lives and lives, there is also the “island of centenarians” Okinawa. The average life expectancy here for men is 88 years, for women - 92; this is higher than the rest of Japan by 10-15 years. The island has collected data on more than seven hundred local centenarians over a hundred years old. They say that: “Unlike the Caucasian highlanders, the Hunzakuts of Northern Pakistan and other peoples who boast of their longevity, all Okinawan births since 1879 have been documented in the Japanese family registry - koseki.” Okinawans themselves believe that the secret to their longevity rests on four pillars: diet, active lifestyle, self-sufficiency and spirituality. Local residents never overeat, adhering to the principle of “hari hachi bu” - to eat eight-tenths full. This “eight-tenths” consists of pork, seaweed and tofu, vegetables, daikon and local bitter cucumber. The oldest Okinawans do not sit idle: they actively work on the land, and their recreation is also active: most of all they love to play the local variety of croquet.: Okinawa is called the happiest island - there is no rush and stress typical of the large islands of Japan. Local residents are committed to the philosophy of yumaru - "a kind-hearted and friendly joint effort."
It is interesting that as soon as Okinawans move to other parts of the country, there are no longer long-livers among such people. Thus, scientists studying this phenomenon have found that the genetic factor does not play a role in the longevity of the islanders. And we, for our part, consider it extremely important that the Okinawa Islands are located in an actively wind-blown zone in the ocean, and the oxygen level in such zones is recorded as the highest - 21.9 - 22% oxygen.

Therefore, the task of the OxyHaus system is not so much to INCREASE the oxygen level in the room, but to RESTORE its natural balance.
In the tissues of the body saturated with a natural level of oxygen, the metabolic process accelerates, the body is “activated,” its resistance to negative factors increases, its endurance and the efficiency of its organs and systems increase.

Atmung oxygen concentrators utilize NASA-developed PSA (Pressure Swing Absorption) technology. The outside air is purified through a filter system, after which the device releases oxygen using a molecular sieve made from the volcanic mineral zeolite. Pure, almost 100% oxygen is supplied in a flow under pressure of 5-10 liters per minute. This pressure is sufficient to provide a natural level of oxygen in a room up to 30 meters in area.

“But the air outside is dirty, and oxygen carries all the substances with it.”
That is why OxyHaus systems have a three-stage incoming air filtration system. And the already purified air enters a zeolite molecular sieve, in which air oxygen is separated.

“What are the dangers of using the OxyHaus system? After all, oxygen is explosive.”
The concentrator is safe to use. There is a danger of explosion in industrial oxygen cylinders because the oxygen in them is under high pressure. The Atmung oxygen concentrators on which the system is based do not contain flammable materials, they use PSA (pressure swing adsorption) technology developed by NASA, it is safe and easy to operate.

“Why do I need your system? I can reduce the CO2 level in a room by opening a window and ventilating it."
Indeed, regular ventilation is very good habit and we also recommend it to reduce CO2 levels. However, city air cannot be called truly fresh - except for higher level harmful substances, oxygen levels are reduced. In the forest, the oxygen content is about 22%, and in city air - 20.5 - 20.8%. This seemingly insignificant difference has a significant impact on the human body.
“I tried to breathe oxygen and didn’t feel anything.”
The effects of oxygen should not be compared with the effects of energy drinks. The positive effects of oxygen have a cumulative effect, so the body's oxygen balance must be replenished regularly. We recommend turning on the OxyHaus system at night and for 3-4 hours a day during physical or intellectual activity. It is not necessary to use the system 24 hours a day.

“What is the difference with air purifiers?”
An air purifier only performs the function of reducing the amount of dust, but does not solve the problem of balancing the oxygen level of stuffiness.
“What is the most favorable oxygen concentration in a room?”
The most favorable oxygen content is close to the same as in a forest or on the seashore: 22%. Even if, due to natural ventilation, your oxygen level is slightly above 21%, this is a favorable atmosphere.

“Is it possible to poison yourself with oxygen?”

Oxygen poisoning, hyperoxia, occurs as a result of breathing oxygen-containing gas mixtures (air, nitrox) when high blood pressure. Oxygen poisoning can occur when using oxygen devices, regenerative devices, when using artificial gas mixtures for breathing, during oxygen recompression, and also due to exceeding therapeutic doses in the process of oxygen barotherapy. Oxygen poisoning leads to dysfunction of the central nervous system. nervous system, respiratory and circulatory organs.

Watching even modern foreign films about the work of emergency doctors and paramedics, we repeatedly see the picture - a Chance collar is put on the patient and the next step is given oxygen to breathe. This picture is long gone.

The modern protocol for providing care to patients with respiratory disorders involves oxygen therapy only when saturation is significantly reduced. Below 92%. And it is carried out only to the extent necessary to maintain saturation of 92%.

Why?

Our body is designed in such a way that it requires oxygen to function, but back in 1955 it was found out...

Changes that occur in lung tissue when exposed to various oxygen concentrations have been noted both in vivo and in vitro. The first signs of changes in the structure of alveolar cells became noticeable after 3-6 hours of inhalation of high oxygen concentrations. With continued exposure to oxygen, lung damage progresses and animals die from asphyxia (P. Grodnot, J. Chôme, 1955).

The toxic effect of oxygen primarily manifests itself in the respiratory organs (M.A. Pogodin, A.E. Ovchinnikov, 1992; G.L. Morgulis et al., 1992; M.Iwata, K.Takagi, T.Satake, 1986; O. Matsurbara, T. Takemura, 1986; L. Nici, R. Dowin, 1991; Z. Viguang, 1992; K. L. Weir, P. W Johnston, 1992; A. Rubini, 1993).

The use of high concentrations of oxygen can also trigger a number of pathological mechanisms. Firstly, this is the formation of aggressive free radicals and activation of the process of lipid peroxidation, accompanied by the destruction of the lipid layer cell walls. This process is especially dangerous in the alveoli, since they are exposed to the highest concentrations of oxygen. With prolonged exposure, 100% oxygen can cause acute lung damage. respiratory distress syndrome. It is possible that the lipid peroxidation mechanism is involved in damage to other organs, such as the brain.

What happens when we start inhaling oxygen to a person?

The concentration of oxygen during inhalation increases, as a result, oxygen begins to firstly affect the mucous membrane of the trachea and bronchi, reducing the production of mucus, and also drying it out. Humidification here works little and not as desired, because oxygen passing through water converts part of it into hydrogen peroxide. There is not a lot of it, but it is quite enough to influence the mucous membrane of the trachea and bronchi. As a result of this exposure, mucus production decreases and the tracheobronchial tree begins to dry out. Then, oxygen enters the alveoli, where it directly affects the surfactant contained on their surface.

Oxidative degradation of the surfactant begins. The surfactant forms a certain surface tension inside the alveoli, which allows it to keep its shape and not collapse. If there is little surfactant, and when oxygen is inhaled, the rate of its degradation becomes much higher than the rate of its production by the alveolar epithelium, the alveolus loses its shape and collapses. As a result, an increase in the concentration of oxygen levels during inspiration leads to the occurrence of respiratory failure. It should be noted that this process is not quick, and there are situations when oxygen inhalation can save the patient’s life, but only for a fairly short period of time. Long-term inhalations of even not very high concentrations of oxygen definitely lead to partial atelictation of the lungs and significantly worsen the processes of sputum discharge.

Thus, as a result of oxygen inhalation, you can get the exact opposite effect - a deterioration in the patient’s condition.

What to do in this situation?

The answer lies on the surface - to normalize gas exchange in the lungs not by changing the oxygen concentration, but by normalizing parameters

ventilation. Those. we need to force the alveoli and bronchi to work so that 21% of oxygen in the surrounding air is enough for the body to function normally. Non-invasive ventilation helps with this. However, one must always take into account that selecting ventilation parameters during hypoxia is a rather labor-intensive process. In addition to tidal volumes, breathing frequency, the rate of change in pressure during inhalation and exhalation, we have to operate with many other parameters - blood pressure, blood pressure pulmonary artery, resistance index of small and large circle vessels. Often it is necessary to use drug therapy, because the lungs are not only an organ of gas exchange, but also a kind of filter that determines the speed of blood flow both in small and in big circle blood circulation It’s probably not worth describing the process itself and the pathological mechanisms involved in it here, because it will take more than one hundred pages; it’s probably better to describe what the patient gets as a result.

As a rule, as a result of prolonged oxygen inhalation, a person literally “sticks” to the oxygen concentrator. We described why above. But what’s even worse is that during treatment with an oxygen inhaler, for the patient to be more or less comfortable, higher and higher concentrations of oxygen are required. Moreover, the need to increase the oxygen supply is constantly growing. There is a feeling that a person can no longer live without oxygen. All this leads to the fact that a person loses the opportunity to serve himself.

What happens when we start replacing the oxygen concentrator with non-invasive ventilation? The situation is changing dramatically. After all, non-invasive ventilation is needed only occasionally - a maximum of 5-7 times a day, and as a rule, patients get by with 2-3 sessions of 20-40 minutes each. This significantly rehabilitates patients socially. Exercise tolerance increases. Shortness of breath goes away. A person can take care of himself and live not tied to a device. And most importantly, we do not burn out the surfactant or dry out the mucous membrane.

A person tends to get sick. As a rule, it is respiratory diseases that cause a sharp deterioration in the condition of patients. If this happens, then the number of non-invasive ventilation sessions during the day must be increased. Patients themselves, sometimes even better than the doctor, determine when they need to breathe on the machine again.

Everyone knows from childhood that a person cannot live without oxygen. People breathe him, he takes part in many metabolic processes, nourishes organs and tissues useful substances. Therefore, oxygen treatment has long been used in many medical procedures, thanks to which you can saturate the body or cells with important elements, as well as improve your health.

Lack of oxygen in the body

A person breathes oxygen. But those who live in big cities, in which industry is developed, lack it. This is due to the fact that in megacities there are harmful pollutants in the air. chemical elements. In order for the human body to be healthy and fully functioning, it needs pure oxygen, the proportion of which in the air should be approximately 21%. But various studies have shown that in the city it is only 12%. As you can see, residents of megacities receive a vital element 2 times less than the norm.

Symptoms of lack of oxygen

increase in breathing rate,
increase in heart rate,
headache,
organ function slows down,
impaired concentration,
reaction slows down
lethargy,
drowsiness,
acidosis develops
bluish skin,
changing the shape of nails.

Consequences of lack of oxygen

As a result, the lack of oxygen in the body negatively affects the functioning of the heart, liver, brain, etc. The likelihood of premature aging and the appearance of diseases increases of cardio-vascular system and respiratory organs.

Therefore, it is recommended to change your place of residence, move to a more environmentally friendly area of the city, or better yet, move out of town, closer to nature. If such an opportunity is not expected in the near future, then try to get out to parks or squares more often.

Since residents of large cities can have a whole “bouquet” of diseases due to a lack of this element, we suggest you familiarize yourself with oxygen treatment methods.

Oxygen treatment methods

Oxygen inhalations

Prescribed to patients suffering from diseases of the respiratory system (bronchitis, pneumonia, pulmonary edema, tuberculosis, asthma), heart disease, poisoning, malfunction of the liver and kidneys, and shock.

Oxygen therapy can also be done as a preventive measure for residents of large cities. After the procedure, a person’s appearance becomes better, their mood and general well-being improve, they gain energy and strength for work and creativity.

Oxygen inhalation

Oxygen inhalation procedure at home

For oxygen inhalation, you need a tube or mask through which the breathing mixture will flow. It is best to carry out the procedure through the nose, using a special catheter. The proportion of oxygen in breathing mixtures is from 30% to 95%. The duration of inhalation depends on the condition of the body, usually 10-20 minutes. This procedure is often resorted to in the postoperative period.

Anyone can purchase the necessary equipment for oxygen therapy in pharmacies and carry out inhalation themselves. Oxygen cartridges usually available on sale are approximately 30 cm high and contain oxygen and nitrogen gas inside. The cylinder has a nebulizer for breathing gas through the nose or mouth. Of course, the cylinder does not last forever; as a rule, it lasts for 3-5 days. It is worth using it 2-3 times daily.

Oxygen is very beneficial for humans, but an overdose can be harmful. Therefore, when carrying out independent procedures, be careful and do not overdo it. Do everything according to the instructions. If you experience the following symptoms after oxygen therapy - dry cough, cramps, burning behind the sternum - then consult a doctor immediately. To prevent this from happening, use a pulse oximeter to help monitor the oxygen level in your blood.

Barotherapy

This procedure means exposure to increased or low blood pressure on the human body. As a rule, they resort to increased pressure, which is created in pressure chambers with different sizes for various medical purposes. There are large ones, they are designed for operations and childbirth.

Due to the fact that tissues and organs are saturated with oxygen, swelling and inflammation are reduced, cell renewal and rejuvenation are accelerated.

Effectively use oxygen under high pressure in diseases of the stomach, heart, endocrine and nervous systems, in the presence of gynecological problems, etc.

Barotherapy

Oxygen mesotherapy

It is used in cosmetology to introduce active substances into the deep layers of the skin, which will enrich it. This oxygen therapy improves the condition of the skin, it rejuvenates, and also eliminates cellulite. On this moment Oxygen mesotherapy is a popular service in cosmetology salons.

Oxygen mesotherapy

Oxygen baths

They are quite useful. Water is poured into the bath, the temperature of which should be approximately 35°C. It is saturated with active oxygen, due to which it has a healing effect on the body.

After taking oxygen baths, a person begins to feel better, insomnia and migraines go away, blood pressure normalizes, and metabolism improves. This effect occurs due to the penetration of oxygen into the deep layers of the skin and stimulation of nerve receptors. Such services are usually provided in spa salons or sanatoriums.

Oxygen cocktails

They are very popular now. Oxygen cocktails are not only healthy, but also very tasty.

What are they? The basis that gives color and taste is syrup, juice, vitamins, herbal infusions, in addition, such drinks are filled with foam and bubbles containing 95% medical oxygen. Oxygen cocktails should be drunk by people suffering from gastrointestinal diseases or problems with the nervous system. Such medicinal drink also normalizes blood pressure, metabolism, relieves fatigue, eliminates migraines and removes excess liquid from the body. If you consume oxygen cocktails daily, a person’s immune system is strengthened and performance increases.

You can buy them in many sanatoriums or fitness clubs. You can also prepare oxygen cocktails yourself; for this you need to purchase a special device at the pharmacy. Use freshly squeezed vegetable, fruit juices or herbal mixtures as a base.

Oxygen cocktails

Nature

Nature is perhaps the most natural and pleasant way. Try to get out into nature and parks as often as possible. Breathe clean, oxygen-rich air.

Oxygen is important element for human health. Get out into the forests and the sea more often - saturate your body with useful substances and strengthen your immunity.

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In chapter Natural Sciences to the question If oxygen is a powerful oxidizing agent, then why is it advised to breathe deeper? Is oxygen harmful to humans? given by the author Yotim Bergi the best answer is Due to the action of oxygen, a person ages but cannot live without it

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Hello! Here is a selection of topics with answers to your question: If oxygen is a powerful oxidizing agent, then why is it advised to breathe deeper? Is oxygen harmful to humans?

Answer from Dmitry Borisov
harmful, don't breathe!

Answer from Col.kurtz
harmful
You can’t breathe pure oxygen for a long time
doctors know

Answer from Anton Vladimirovich
No, that's not true. Of course, if you mean ozone, then this is only for a few minutes, and then it won’t be entirely useful. And oxygen... And oxygen, excuse me, is only useful. But the body is adapted to absorb not pure oxygen, but an oxygen mixture, that is, air. Therefore, pure oxygen also should not be abused unnecessarily.

Answer from Dmitry Nizyaev
Living in general is harmful. They even die from this.

Answer from Breastfeeding childhood
pure oxygen for humans (and for most living beings) is poison; prolonged inhalation of it causes death. The first global extinction was caused precisely by massive oxygen poisoning. see OXYGEN DISASTER. but they advise breathing deeper not with oxygen, but with air in which oxygen is in a safe concentration and only when, due to fainting (or another painful condition), the oxygen concentration in the blood drops. sometimes in this case they allow you to breathe pure oxygen, but not for long.

Answer from ZHolty partisan
It is advised to breathe deeper when the air
atmospheric, it contains 16% oxygen, this is often enough to do
hyperventilation of the lungs, quickly and naturally saturate the blood
It’s beneficial to breathe oxygen, pure oxygen, for a while, but... it’s dangerous. Profitable because one
the breath lasts for a minute... it’s dangerous - everyone is accelerating
metabolic reactions in the body significantly (actually accelerates
aging of the body) and if you suddenly “accept the spark” while inhaling, they will burn out
lungs from the inside! At work I did a trick... inhaled oxygen from
cylinder... approached the smoker, took a burning cigarette from him, inserted it into
mouth and blew into it... - the cigarette burned with a bright flame.
IN pure form This is a terrible oxidizing agent, therefore a poison. Ozone is many times more dangerous than oxygen, in its pure form (rarely found, only next to an electric arc, during welding), its smell is pungent, burns the mucous membrane of the nose, eyes... prolonged inhalation leads to the conversion of blood cholesterol into an INSOLUTE form, i.e. there is a risk of getting heart attack out of thin air! I say this because I experienced it myself as an aluminum welder.

Answer from Yustam Iskenderov
Nitrogen calms it down.

Answer from Ioman Sergeevich
By the way, oxygen in the body is used precisely for oxidation. So what now? As already said, do not breathe, and after a few minutes the oxidation processes will stop...

Answer from Born in the USSR
It is not oxygen that is harmful, but its concentration...

In our body, oxygen is responsible for the process of energy production. In our cells, oxygenation occurs only thanks to oxygen - the conversion of nutrients (fats and lipids) into cellular energy. When the partial pressure (content) of oxygen in the inhaled level decreases, its level in the blood decreases and the activity of the body at the cellular level decreases. It is known that more than 20% of oxygen is consumed by the brain. Oxygen deficiency contributes. Accordingly, when oxygen levels drop, well-being, performance, general tone, and immunity suffer.
It is also important to know that it is oxygen that can remove toxins from the body.
Please note that in all foreign films, in the event of an accident or a person in serious condition, emergency doctors first of all put on an oxygen apparatus to the victim in order to increase the body’s resistance and increase his chances of survival.
The therapeutic effects of oxygen have been known and used in medicine since the end of the 18th century. In the USSR, the active use of oxygen for preventive purposes began in the 60s of the last century.

Hypoxia

Hypoxia or oxygen starvation is a reduced oxygen content in the body or individual organs and tissues. Hypoxia occurs when there is a lack of oxygen in the inhaled air and in the blood, when the biochemical processes of tissue respiration are disrupted. Due to hypoxia, irreversible changes develop in vital organs. The most sensitive to oxygen deficiency are the central nervous system, heart muscle, kidney tissue, and liver.
Manifestations of hypoxia are respiratory failure, shortness of breath; dysfunction of organs and systems.

Harm to oxygen

1. What are free radicals?
Some of the huge number of constantly occurring oxidative (energy-producing) and reduction reactions of the body are not completed to the end, and then substances are formed with unstable molecules that have unpaired electrons at the outer electronic levels, called “free radicals”. They try to grab the missing electron from any other molecule. This molecule, turning into a free radical, steals an electron from the next one, and so on..
Why is this necessary? A certain amount of free radicals, or oxidants, is vital for the body. First of all, to combat harmful microorganisms. Free radicals are used by the immune system as “projectiles” against “invaders.” Normally, in the human body, 5% of substances formed during chemical reactions become free radicals.
Scientists cite emotional stress, heavy physical exertion, injury and exhaustion due to air pollution, consumption of canned and technologically incorrectly processed foods, vegetables and fruits grown with herbicides and pesticides, and ultraviolet radiation as the main reasons for the disruption of natural biochemical balance and the increase in the number of free radicals. and radiation exposure.

Thus, aging is a biological process of slowing down cell division, and free radicals, erroneously associated with aging, are natural and necessary defense mechanisms for the body, and their harmful effects are associated with disruption of natural processes in the body by negative environmental factors and stress.

2. “It’s easy to get poisoned with oxygen.”
Indeed, excess oxygen is dangerous. Excess oxygen causes an increase in the amount of oxidized hemoglobin in the blood and a decrease in the amount of reduced hemoglobin. And, since it is the reduced hemoglobin that removes carbon dioxide, its retention in the tissues leads to hypercapnia - CO2 poisoning.
With an excess of oxygen, the number of free radical metabolites increases, those same terrible “free radicals” that are highly active, acting as oxidizing agents that can damage biological cell membranes.

Technology

Air purity

Danger/safety

“What are the dangers of using the OxyHaus system? After all, oxygen is explosive.”
The concentrator is safe to use. Industrial oxygen cylinders pose a risk of explosion because they contain oxygen under high pressure. The Atmung oxygen concentrators on which the system is based do not contain flammable materials, they use PSA (pressure swing adsorption) technology developed by NASA, it is safe and easy to operate.

Efficiency

“Why do I need your system? I can reduce the CO2 level in a room by opening a window and ventilating it."
Indeed, regular ventilation is a very useful habit and we also recommend it to reduce CO2 levels. However, city air cannot be called truly fresh - in addition to an increased level of harmful substances, it also has a reduced oxygen level. In the forest, the oxygen content is about 22%, and in city air - 20.5 - 20.8%. This seemingly insignificant difference has a significant impact on the human body.
“I tried to breathe oxygen and didn’t feel anything.”
The effects of oxygen should not be compared with the effects of energy drinks. The positive effects of oxygen have a cumulative effect, so the body's oxygen balance must be replenished regularly. We recommend turning on the OxyHaus system at night and for 3-4 hours a day during physical or intellectual activity. It is not necessary to use the system 24 hours a day.

“Is it possible to poison yourself with oxygen?”

Oxygen poisoning, hyperoxia, occurs as a result of breathing oxygen-containing gas mixtures (air, nitrox) at elevated pressure. Oxygen poisoning can occur when using oxygen devices, regenerative devices, when using artificial gas mixtures for breathing, during oxygen recompression, and also due to exceeding therapeutic doses in the process of oxygen barotherapy. With oxygen poisoning, dysfunctions of the central nervous system, respiratory and circulatory system develop.

Residents of megacities chronically lack oxygen: it is mercilessly burned by cars and hazardous industries. Therefore, our body is often in a state of chronic hypoxia (lack of oxygen). This leads to drowsiness , headaches, malaise and stress. To maintain beauty and health, women and men are increasingly resorting to various methods oxygen therapy. This allows you to enrich the blood and starved tissues with valuable gas, at least for a short time.

Why do we need oxygen?

We breathe a mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. But it is oxygen that we need most of all - it carries it throughout the body hemoglobin . Oxygen is involved in cellular processes of metabolism and oxidation. As a result of oxidation, nutrients in cells burn to final products - water and carbon dioxide - and form energy. And in an oxygen-free environment, the brain turns off after 2-5 minutes.

That is why it is important that this gas in the required concentration constantly enters the body. In large cities with poor ecology, the air contains half as much oxygen as required for full breathing and normal metabolism.

As a result, the body experiences a state of chronic hypoxia - all organs work in an inferior mode, as a result - metabolic disorders, unhealthy skin color And early aging . At the same time, oxygen deficiency leads to the development of many diseases or aggravates existing chronic diseases.

Oxygen therapy

For normal functioning of the body, there must be 20-21% oxygen in the air. In stuffy offices or busy avenues, oxygen concentration can drop to 16-17%, which is critically low for breathing. We feel tired, we are tormented headache .

On hot and dry days, even normal oxygen concentrations are perceived worse, but on cool days and with high humidity it is easier to breathe. However, this is not due to oxygen concentration.

To help your body saturate tissues with oxygen, you can use several methods of oxygen therapy - oxygen inhalation, oxygen mesotherapy, oxygen baths and barotherapy, as well as taking oxygen cocktails.

Oxygen inhalation

This therapy is usually prescribed to patients with asthma, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis and heart disease in hospital settings. Oxygen therapy can relieve gas intoxication, suffocation, and is indicated for impaired kidney function, for people in shock, for those suffering from obesity, nervous diseases, and for those who often faint.

However, breathing oxygen is useful for everyone: saturating the blood with it increases the tone of the body and mood, helps in improving appearance, makes cheeks rosy, removes sallow skin tone, helps get rid of constant fatigue and work more actively and more.

Oxygen therapy: main types and effects on the body

During the procedure, special cannula tubes or a small mask are used, to which an oxygen mixture is supplied. In order to prevent hypoxia, the procedure is carried out for about 10 minutes, and in the treatment of certain diseases, the duration of oxygen therapy is determined by the doctor.

Inhalations can be carried out both in special clinics and at home. Oxygen cylinders can be purchased at the pharmacy.

Important! Breathing pure oxygen is prohibited: an increased concentration in the body is just as dangerous as a lack. Excess oxygen can lead to blindness, lung and kidney damage.

One of the options for inhalation is the use of an oxygen concentrator - it can be used to saturate the air in rooms (saunas, baths, offices, apartments and oxygen cafe-bars). The device has a concentration regulator and a timer so as not to cause an overdose.

The use of oxygen in special pressure chambers is also useful - at increased pressure, oxygen penetrates tissue more actively.

Mesotherapy

With this cosmetic procedure Oxygen-enriched preparations are injected into the deep layers of the skin. The result is the activation of the process of regeneration and renewal of the skin layers, and as a result, skin rejuvenation. The surface of the dermis is leveled, the color and tone of the skin improves, and the phenomena of cellulite in the area of problem areas gradually disappear.

Oxygen baths or oxygen cocktail?

Oxygen bath – pleasant and beneficial

Such bath also called pearl. It relaxes and gives strength to tired muscles and ligaments. The temperature of the water in the bath corresponds to body temperature, which makes your stay comfortable. The water is enriched with oxygen.

Pearl baths enrich the body with oxygen through skin. As a result, the tone of the nervous system is normalized, stress , sleep is normalized, alignment occurs blood pressure and improving general state skin and the whole body.

Residents of megacities suffer from a chronic lack of oxygen: it is mercilessly burned by hazardous industries and cars. Therefore, the human body is often in a state of chronic hypoxia. This leads to drowsiness, malaise, headaches, and stress. To maintain beauty and health, women and men increasingly have to resort to all kinds of oxygen therapy methods. This, at least for a short time, allows you to enrich starved tissues and blood with valuable gas.

Why does a person need oxygen?

We have to breathe a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen. But a person needs oxygen most of all - it carries hemoglobin throughout the body. Oxygen takes part in cellular processes of oxidation and metabolism. Nutrients in cells, due to oxidation, they undergo combustion processes to the final products - carbon dioxide and water - with the formation of energy. And in an oxygen-free environment, the brain switches off within two to five minutes.

This is why it is very important that this gas in the required concentration enters the body all the time. In condition large city With a poor environment, the air contains half as much oxygen as is needed for normal metabolism and proper breathing.

In this case, the body has to experience a state of chronic hypoxia - the organs have to work in an inferior mode. As a result, metabolism is disrupted, unhealthy skin color is observed, and early aging occurs. Oxygen deficiency can lead to the emergence of many diseases or aggravate existing chronic ailments.

Oxygen treatment

In order for the body to saturate tissues with oxygen, several oxygen therapy techniques can be used, including:

oxygen mesotherapy;
oxygen inhalation;
oxygen baths;
taking oxygen cocktails;
barotherapy.

Such therapy is usually prescribed to patients with chronic bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, heart disease, and tuberculosis. Oxygen treatment can relieve suffocation and gas intoxication. This type of therapy is indicated:

in case of kidney dysfunction;
persons in a state of shock;
those who suffer from obesity, nervous diseases;
for those who often faint.

Oxygen is an essential substance for maintaining the life of all living beings. Mixtures containing a high oxygen content are used by astronauts, divers, and pilots. Very often, to save a person’s life, they give additional inhalation of pure oxygen. But everyone should know that a lack of oxygen is harmful to human life, and its overdose is also harmful, that is, oxygen poisoning can occur.

Oxygen is necessary to maintain life

Excess oxygen causes hyperoxia. It can provoke a whole complex of different reactions of the body, which can be pathological. Typically, this disease occurs when the rules for using breathing mixtures are violated. This could be a pressure chamber or devices for regenerative breathing. Usually, when an overdose of oxygen enters the body, oxygen intoxication occurs. It is expressed by the following symptoms:

noises in the ears are heard;
dizzy;
consciousness is confused.

This condition occurs in most urban people when going out into nature, very often in a coniferous forest, where the air is cleaner and saturated with oxygen. Also in athletes who are forced to intensively inhale and exhale air.

Symptoms of hyperoxia

Symptoms of hyperoxia: tinnitus, dizziness, confusion

With a short inhalation of a saturated amount of oxygen, the body tries to compensate for its excess by slowing down breathing, reducing the heart rate, narrowing blood vessels. But if you continue to inhale excess oxygen, they begin to develop pathological processes associated with the transfer of gases in the blood. This pathological process is expressed by the following symptoms:

a person feels pain in the head;
the face becomes red;
shortness of breath occurs;
convulsions may occur;
the victim loses consciousness.

Cell membranes are destroyed. If oxygen is supplied normally, then its complete oxidation occurs, and if there is an excess, metabolic products that do not enter into the reaction remain, that is, free radicals that harm the body.

Oxygen intoxication, its symptoms

Oxygen intoxication is possible among diving enthusiasts and divers

In case of oxygen poisoning, a person experiences the same symptoms as with other intoxications. They begin to appear within a short time, the most striking indicator is:

involuntary muscle contraction;
lip trembling;
numbness of fingers and toes;
the occurrence of nausea and vomiting;
blurred vision.

These are disturbances in the activity of the nervous system: anxiety, excitement, as well as loud noise in the ears. A person cannot move because coordination is impaired.

Forms of hyperoxia

There are three forms of oxygen poisoning and the course of the disease. They are determined by their dominant symptoms. In case of defeat respiratory tract and lungs determine the pulmonary form. The mucous membrane is irritated, a cough occurs, and a burning sensation behind the sternum. As you continue to inhale supersaturated oxygen, the person’s condition worsens.

The most dangerous form of hyperoxia is vascular

Hemorrhage into internal organs may occur. If the causes of these pathological processes are eliminated, the victim’s condition improves within 2 hours, and the body returns to normal within 2 days. If hearing impairment dominates, vision deteriorates, muscle twitch, then - this is another form - this is convulsive hyperoxia. It can occur while diving under water.

A complication of this form is the occurrence of convulsive seizures, they are somewhat reminiscent of epileptic seizures. This form usually occurs when pure oxygen or mixtures are inhaled, with an applied pressure of 2 bar. The danger of this form is that the victim may drown. As soon as the excess oxygen supply is eliminated, the person will fall asleep for several hours, after which there will be no further consequences.

Most dangerous form for life is vascular hyperoxia. Oxygen poisoning occurs at pressures that exceed 3 bar. The symptoms are such that blood pressure drops and hemorrhages begin internal organs. The heart may even stop. If the partial pressure is 5 bar, then it will lead to the fact that hyperoxia will begin to develop rapidly, the person will lose consciousness and die. Sometimes, when diving under water, a mixture of two forms is observed: pulmonary and convulsive.

First aid

Do not dive without preparation

Most often, hyperoxia occurs in diving enthusiasts and divers. Usually, not all people are prepared to inhale mixtures with oxygen, which is why hyperoxia occurs. Types of first aid work include the following:

it is necessary to cancel the dive and raise the victim to a stop;
bring him to his senses and restore his breathing;
supply air with a small oxygen content;
during convulsions, make sure that the victim does not hit himself.

Usually the patient needs to lie in bed for 24 hours, preferably in a slightly darkened room with the window open.

Ways to restore health

Once the type of hyperoxia and its symptoms are determined, appropriate treatment will be prescribed. If symptoms are observed pulmonary form, then the treatment will be as follows: tourniquets must be applied to the limbs. A procedure is carried out to suction the resulting foam from the lungs. Diuretics are prescribed. Try to prevent the development of acidosis.

For convulsive form, treatment consists of relieving seizures. To do this, aminazine and diphenhydramine are administered intravenously. If there are symptoms of disturbances in the functioning of the cardiovascular system and respiratory organs, then treatment is aimed at normalizing them. To prevent pneumonia from developing, antibiotics are prescribed.

Prevention measures

It is important to maintain the required depth when diving

In order to avoid hyperoxia, it is necessary to follow preventive measures. Oxygen mixtures and breathing apparatus must be used with great care. TO preventive measures can be attributed:

maintaining the required depth when diving;
staying under water for the prescribed time;
use only those mixtures that correspond to the pressure and depth markings;
tracking time in the decompression chamber;
checking the serviceability of devices for immersion in water.

Oxygen in excess can be dangerous to health, acts like a poison, and various pathological processes can occur. Normally it should contain about 21%. When inhaling pure oxygen or mixtures containing it, a disease may occur - hyperoxia or oxygen poisoning. It occurs mainly in people who require additional oxygen supply.

The main symptoms are: involuntary muscle contractions, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, often blurred vision, limb cramps, difficulty breathing. If a diver feels symptoms of illness, he must immediately stop the dive and return to the decompression chamber to restore his breathing. He should always take care of his health and life first.

But if you remove the supply of saturated oxygen, everything returns to normal within a short time. If severe cases occur, medical assistance is sometimes required.