When people are hyperventilating, why do they breath air into a bag?!
Question: Carbon dioxide normalizes breathing in the hyperventilating patient. The patient's own carbon dioxide accumulates in the bag upon exhaling and is sufficient to do the trick.
Answers: Carbon dioxide normalizes breathing in the hyperventilating patient. The patient's own carbon dioxide accumulates in the bag upon exhaling and is sufficient to do the trick.
To get more carbine dioxide into their lungs to stop
the hyperventilating since they have too much oxygen
in their lungs.
Because when they hyperventilate, they are getting far more oxygen into their system than what is normal. So to reduce the amount of oxygen they end up taking in they re-breathe the oxygen they just released into the bag, which has increasingly less levels of oxygen.
This eventually reduces their oxygen back to normal levels and slows their breathing.