OXYGEN AND COVID-19 --- Oxygen deficiency or hypoxia in the blood

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OXYGEN AND HEALTH-HAPPY HYPOXIA

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One of the aims of this article is to make people get a general understanding of oxygen, even though it is given two types of headings above.

Oxygen is a Gas of Life. If there is no oxygen then there are no lives.

After drinking water like a camel, you can live for a few days without drinking any more water. 

After one time eating with a full stomach and further a few days without food you can live with starvation.

Albeit you breathe in a lot of oxygen once with full lungs if no oxygen is further available for the next breath you cannot survive for the next moment.

 Oxygen is essential for all living things in this world, not just for humans but for bacteria and fungi too. But the virus does not need oxygen. Because it is not a living system.

The amount of oxygen in the air is only one-fifth. The remaining three parts are nitrogen, and further, the remaining one part is of other gases, such as carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, argon, krypton, neon, and xenon.

This formula is the air formula designed by the Almighty God, the all-knowing biochemistry expert for our safety. (Figure-1)

In the verses of the Holy Quran (55: 7,8,9) God warns man not to disturb this equation.

OXYGEN IS A CHEMICAL:-

Oxygen can be described up as a physical and chemical substance.

Oxygen is a heavy gas. Its molecular weight (MW) is -32gm / mole

Molecular Formula of Oxygen (MF) -(Fig-2)

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MF-Molecular Formula
MW-Molecular Weight

Oxygen in the air is a single molecule in which two oxygen atoms are connected by an electrovalent bond (Figure-2). This connection may be broken under some unusual circumstances. Then the oxygen will be ionized and the action will be understood. For example. When hydrogen is burned in oxygen, the oxygen reacts with it to form water (Figure-3A).

Fig-3A
H2O=Water

Oxygen will trigger the burning object but not burn itself. That means it is a supporter of combustion and not a combustible gas. That is why in the atmosphere the Lord holds one part oxygen and three parts nitrogen. If not, with our body temperature of 98.4 Fahrenheit we would all be burned to ashes in oxygen.

Because nitrogen is an inert gas, it limits potent oxygen.

Understanding the Reaction of Oxygen with Nitrogen:

Fig-3B

Nitrogen and oxygen do not react at normal atmospheric temperature and pressure (ATP). But in extreme heat conditions caused by pollutant gases emitted from factories, especially from coal mines nitrogen reacts with oxygen rapidly to release more deadly nitrogen trioxide, which produces a photochemical smog. At the same time, if there is lightning and rain, there will be more acid rain.

However, in a hygienic climate where there are no factories, there will be harmless rain due to the small amount of nitric acid produced by lightning (Figure 3-B). It will also enrich the land.

How the body uses oxygen:

Before we know it, let's take a brief look at the hemoglobin in our blood and the red blood cells that enclose it.

Usually, the real form of blood is a yellow liquid called plasma. It contains soluble materials and non-soluble floating materials. One such floating substances are the red blood cells (RBCs).

It is these millions of red cells that float on the plasma and give color to the blood. It is through these RBCs that the body utilizes oxygen in various ways. It is through hemoglobin contained in RBC that the blood carries oxygen and transfers it to every cell of our body. (Figure-4)

Fig-4

Hemoglobin turns red after oxygenation. It leaves oxygen and turns blue after taking up carbon dioxide. So the color of the impure blood is blue.

Air contains 21% oxygen. The remaining 75% is nitrogen and the rest is gases.

We cannot breathe pure 100% oxygen. If we breathe like that it will burn our lungs' air sacs. Also, oxygen is a gas that suppresses respiration.

That is why medical oxygen is produced in multiple percentages. They are as follows:

1.Oxygen 99.5% + Carbon dioxide 300 ppm (0.03%)

2.Oxygen 95% + Carbon dioxide 5%

3.Oxygen 60%+ Nitrogen 40%+> 0.03% Carbon dioxide

None of the above medical oxygen contains 100% oxygen. But there is carbon dioxide in everything above. The reason is that carbon dioxide is a respiratory stimulant.

Carbon dioxide promotes the transfer of oxygen from the air to the lungs and from the blood to the tissues.

99.5%, and even 95% oxygen will be used very carefully. The reason is that these do not contain nitrogen as a diluent.

Inhaled oxygen is carried through the trachea to the lungs with inhaled air. Oxygen is absorbed due to partial pressure of air/blood in the air sacs.

The oxygen absorbed in the air sacs is carried by the capillary and the gas exchange is achieved by the same partial gas pressure difference with the carbon dioxide in the blood vessels. Thus oxygenated (OXYGENATED) pure-blood reaches the left ventricle of the heart through the pulmonary vein and from there through the aorta to the body tissues. (Figure-4)

HAPPY HYPOXIA or HAPPY HYPOXEMIA: -

This is one of the end-of-life symptoms of Covid-19 patients. Strange condition. Dangerous condition.

Normal blood oxygen levels can be as high as 95% -99%. If this level drops below 40% in some cases, the patient may faint. Vital organs such as the heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain can be affected and the patient may die. Shortness of breath may also occur.

But even with this amount of oxygen depletion in the blood, most patients do not experience any immediate symptoms, such as dizziness and shortness of breath. They shall show happiness. That is why it is so named like this.

Happy hypoxia does not trigger such obvious external symptoms. As a result, in the early stages

The COVID-19 patient, on the outside, seems to be right and "happy."

Why does oxygen level decrease in patients with coronavirus infection?

Small clottings and more widespread clots caused by clotting in the complex network of small blood vessels in the lungs are considered by many researchers and medical professionals to be the primary causes of happy hypoxia.

The underlying factor is the inflammatory reaction in the body, which is often triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection and the subsequent onset of COVID-19. It stimulates cellular protein. Although this symptom disappears in the early stages, it is also a factor in the death of the patient in the later stages.

The list of COVID-19 symptoms is long. The most recent addition of these is ‘happy hypoxia’, which means the patient is happy without any symptoms despite having very low levels of oxygen in the blood. This has left medical professionals around the world confused.

This means that even those who have no symptoms from a covid-19 infection should know their oxygen level through an oximeter, according to a recent study. The reason may be happy hypoxia that does not show symptoms.

How to identify happy hypoxia in people who are asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms of COVID-19?: -

1.by the oximeter

2. Blue discoloration of the lips

3. Skin discoloration from the original color to red/purple appearance.

4. Persistent sweating even after not doing strenuous exercise or in hot environments

Finally paying attention to these warning signs of happy hypoxia ensures immediate treatment in a hospital setting, thereby restoring the lung capacity and normal breathing of the affected person and helping to recover from COVID-19.