{"id":176608,"date":"2020-05-06T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/06\/silent-hypoxia\/"},"modified":"2020-05-06T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:27:00","slug":"silent-hypoxia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/06\/silent-hypoxia\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Hypoxia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It turns out that a lot of people who have Covid-19 are suffering from what is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/03\/happy-hypoxia-unusual-coronavirus-effect-baffles-doctors\">Silent (or Happy) Hypoxia, there they have dangerously low blood oxygen levels but are showing no symptoms<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>You can get a finger-tip blood oxygen and heart rate indicator for about a sawbuck online, and I would recommend that you do so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">It is a mystery that has left doctors questioning the basic tenets of biology: Covid-19 patients who are talking and apparently not in distress, but who have oxygen levels low enough to typically cause unconsciousness or even death. <\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon, known by some as \u201chappy hypoxia\u201d (some prefer the term \u201csilent\u201d) is raising questions about exactly how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/what-happens-to-your-lungs-with-coronavirus-covid-19\">the virus attacks the lungs<\/a> and whether there could be more effective ways of treating such patients. <\/p>\n<p>A healthy person would be expected to have an oxygen saturation of at least 95%. But doctors are reporting patients attending A&amp;E with oxygen percentage levels in the 80s or 70s, with some drastic cases below 50%.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Using the fingertip sensor takes less than a minute, and it is non-invasive and not painful, so checking yourself occasionally is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that a lot of people who have Covid-19 are suffering from what is called Silent (or Happy) Hypoxia, there they have dangerously low blood oxygen levels but are showing no symptoms. You can get a finger-tip blood oxygen and heart rate indicator for about a sawbuck online, and I would recommend that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[420,440,572],"class_list":["post-176608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-medical","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}