Beware of Happy Hypoxia, Understand How to Self-Check with Oximeters

KOMPAS.com – Happy hypoxia or silent hypoxemia be the cause of death without symptoms for Covid-19 patients.

To note, hypoxemia or hypoxemia is a lack oxygen levels in the blood, which causes disturbances and complaints to other organs.

While, silent hypoxemia is a lack of oxygen in the blood but is not followed by symptoms or complaints in other body organs.

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Hypoxia or hypoxia is a lack of oxygen levels in the blood tissues, and generally has symptoms.

While, happy hypoxia is a lack of oxygen levels in the blood tissue, but has no symptoms or complaints that the patient feels.

Chairperson of the Indonesian Lung Doctors Association (PDPI) Agus Dwi Susanto emphasized that patients who are positively infected with Covid-19 but have no symptoms, still have to carry out early detection of potential occurrences. happy hypoxia.

Examination of oxygen levels using Oximeter

In addition to a thorough examination at the health service laboratory, Agus said, checking oxygen levels in the blood can be done by yourself at home, using oxymeter or oximeter – tools for checking oxygen saturation in the blood.

You can get this oximeter independently at stores that sell medical equipment. So, you don’t have to go to the hospital.

However, said Agus, the oximeter examination needs to be repeated during the period the infection occurs.

“It must be repeated periodically, because the condition of oxygen levels fluctuate. It could be normal now, suddenly dropping tomorrow,” said Agus to Kompas.com, Monday (7/9/2020).

An oximeter can generally be used multiple times to check blood oxygen levels.

To be sure, the oximeter examination needs to be done every day.

“(Oximetry examination) once a day is sufficient,” he said.

According to Agus, this oximeter is used to measure peripheral oxygen saturation in the body.

It also represents an examination or assessment of tissue oxygen levels or hypoxic values.

“To be more accurate, it must be confirmed with a blood test to see the oxygen level, to be sure,” he explained.

As for the oximeter found on smartwatch, Agus said, there is no scientific evidence that shows the accuracy and effectiveness of the model in measuring oxygen levels in blood and tissues.

“If smartwatch has not been evaluated. In the hospital, use oximetry (oximetry), “he said.

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Furthermore, Agus also revealed, until now, there has been no definite scientific explanation regarding happy hypoxia experienced by patients who are positively infected with Covid-19.

“However, a hypothesis or a theory from various journals states that there may be interference with the receptor system and the distance in the innervation which gives a warning to the central nervous system,” said Agus to Kompas.com on a different occasion.

Under normal conditions, a person with low oxygen levels in their blood will affect the receptors in their blood vessels.

These receptors will cause a warning in the nervous area to the central nervous system, causing a shortness of breath response.

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Then, the central nervous system will also respond to increase oxygen in the blood, namely by increasing the frequency of breaths and causing a sensation of shortness of breath.

Therefore, Agus said, the temporary suspicion is the cause silent hypoxsemia or happy hypoxia in Covid-19 patients is the influence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself.

“So in the meantime, it is suspected that the SARS-CoV-2 virus interferes with the receptors in the neural mechanism,” said Agus.

Thus, there is no normal response when the oxygen level in the tissues and blood is below 94 saturation.

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