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Lung Health | Last Active: Sep 28 12:39pm | Replies (184)
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I know ventilation-perfusion mismatch can mean a lot of things…. I’ve read about sometimes blood rushing past that alveoli faster than the ‘oxygen in the breathed air can transfer into gas in the blood’. Is that kind of what you are talking about? I’m not sure how how that could be specifically tested.
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I don’t know about blood rushing past too fast but a technician did tell me that alveoli can be damaged by things like smoking so that the walls are tougher and the o2 molecules have a harder time getting through.
It would be like punching your fist through drywall-thicker would be harder to punch through. Maybe the blood would have gone past by the time the o2 got through.
I don’t know if diseases like Covid or respiratory infections could damage alveoli, but it might be worth looking into.