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There are a multiple reasons for low oxygen saturation, including cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, cardiomyopathy, and even dehydration. The main problem is that the body is starved for oxygen. When the bloodstream does not receive enough oxygen from either the lungs or heart or a disease or illness is depleting the oxygen from the bloodstream, the organs and the brain suffer. Injury and blood loss will also cause low oxygen saturation.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoEither you aren't taking in enough oxygen (Asthma, smothering, constriction of the chest or throat), you aren't moving your blood through your lungs effectively (poor cardiac function), you don't have enough hemoglobin (the red stuff) in your blood (anemia caused by sickness or blood loss), or the hemoglobin is unable to take up oxygen (carbon monoxide poisoning). Oh, or you're suddenly using a lot more oxygen than you're used to (sprinting up stairs - you pant because you have temporary hypoxemia = lack of oxygen in the blood).
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∙ 14y agoobstruction of resp. airway ...... pulm. oedema
copd .. and medulla oblingata lesion
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∙ 12y agopneumonia
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Does lack of oxygen in body causes leukeamia?
Lack of oxygen in the body causes hypoxia or cyanosis. Leukemia is the name given to blood and bone marrow cancers. Hypoxia is not a cause of cancer.
What causes the brain to stop functioning?
One cause would be lack of oxygen due to suffocation or lack of blood flow carrying the oxygen to the brain.
What is black blood caused from?
Can be caused from there being a lack of Oxygen in the blood, but there can be other causes... if you have black blood see a doctor
Why exposure to carbon monoxide can be fatal?
Carbon monoxide takes oxygen from the atmosphere or inside a persons body to form CO2 and the person will die from lack of oxygen
What causes hypoxia in person with COPD?
Hypoxia is where there is low oxygen concentrations in the tissures so therefore this must be due to the lack of oxygen in the blood due to poor/lack of gas exchange caused by the copd
What causes oxygen from the water to diffuse into the blood?
the lungs causes oxygen from the water to diffuse into the blood
What causes the face to turn black when you die?
Due to the lack of oxygen in the blood, the face turns black instead of its healthy red color when the blood is flowing
What causes blackouts?
Lack of oxygen to the brain.
What causes lack of oxygen?
maybe airway obstructions, or lack of hemoglobin which carries oxygen, somethings like that.
What is lack of oxygen in blood?
The term is hypoxemia lack of oxygen in the blood means that the hemoglobin oxygen complex is not being formed properly the oxygen hemoglobin complex is HbO4 if less than four oxygen molecules combine with one hemoglobin then it is called oxygen deficiency in the blood It can also be caused by a lack of red blood cells-anemia
What do people with sickle cell disease lack?
they lack oxygen in there blood
What causes the use of anaerobic respiration?
A lack of oxygen.
