Hypoxia and Medicine

Why do people with asthma have?

low oxygen saturations ( levels) ???

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1. I assume your question is referring to when a person has an actual asthma attack. In that case, low oxygen levels would be the result of your lungs not getting air that is necessary for the oxygen/carbon dioxide exchange between the walls of your alveoli(the tiny air sacs that ultimately make up your lungs) and your capillaries in the lungs. Normally, air rushes into your lungs, and oxygen is transported via diffusion through the wall of the alveoli, and the wall of the capillary associated with it. The oxygen attached to hemoglobin, found in red blood cells, and hitches a ride all around your body to where ever it is needed. But when a person is suffering an asthma attack, the tubes that lead to your lungs constrict (become very small), and thus only a small portion of air, if any, makes it into the lungs to allow this whole process to take place.
2. cus our lungs are always opening with medicine and closing back up, i have to use my inhaler once every day cus if i don't it slowly over a few days starts to close up and its just the way we are idk :p
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