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Rapid breathing
Rapid breathing = Tachypnea .
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What is the definition or description of: Rapid breathing?
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Is rapid breathing normal for a 6 month old?
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A 47-year old asked:
I was wondering what would cause unexplained rapid breathing during sleep?
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A 37-year old asked:
Does more rapid breathing when hiking at higher altitudes cause you to feel faint?
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What might be the cause of the rapid breathing and profuse perspiration when I stand a long time?
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A 42-year old asked:
Child rapid breathing and cough when in city. Asthma?
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A 34-year old asked:
What does it mean if my baby has a slight fever and rapid breathing?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Panic attack or rapid breathing due to a health problem. How to determine ?
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6 year old child has sudden onset of fever and rapid breathing. What might he have caught?
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A 23-year old female asked:
Can panic attacks present in other ways not just the "typical" ones? I don't get rapid breathing etc but all of other things like palps impending doom
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A 35-year old asked:
Do you get rapid breathing and shortness of breath when drunk?
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A 44-year old asked:
What happens to your carbon dioxide in the blood during rapid breathing?
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A 38-year old asked:
What happens to the partial pressure of carbon dioxide during rapid breathing?
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A 44-year old asked:
Does rapid breathing at high altitudes results to respiratory alkalosis?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Hi my baby heart rate is fast and rapid breathing with its chest under its chin and grunts?
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A 29-year old asked:
I get shortness of breath or rapid breathing when I get hot and have sex. Can anybody relate?
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A male asked:
My son has the flu. His pulse is 140 and rapid breathing. He has asthma so im a little concerned?
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A member asked:
I want to know what are signs of anxiety, my symptoms are rapid breathing and heartbeat especially when meeting someone new, hands sweat, and crying?
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A 36-year old female asked about a female:
Had a cough/cold for a few days, but was wheezing with rapid breathing last night (fever 99.0) today, breathing normal, no fever, but vomited this am.
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A 39-year old female asked:
Okay heart question again. Get sinus tach every night. Wakes me up rapid breathing fel wired... However i have no problem running on a treadmill. Can sleep bring this on?
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A female asked:
I have rapid breathing with wezzing and upper back pain ..i have had pneumonia before could it be that again or a chest infection?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Last night i had one seagrams peach fuzzy navel wine cooler as soon as i drank a little my chest hurt i felt warm rapid breathing temp 99.8?
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A 27-year old female asked:
My 5 year old daughter has rapid breathing , fever cough and vomiting. Is it normal for her to be breathing rapid shallow breaths with a fever?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Mother having tachycardia with rapid breathing at random times. It goes away after few minutes. She is healthy otherwise but a lil obese. Causes?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Child gets rapid breathing and retractions in chest few days after virus, doesn't respond to albuterol for more than 2 hours. What would be best treatment? Can't really prevent sickness and worried about catching next sickness?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Every time i take anything with acetaminophen, i get "liver attacks", my ruq hurts terribly. Sob, rapid breathing, cold sweat. Luq/rlq/llq nothing?
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A 36-year old male asked:
My 4 month old baby was sleep i saw rapid breathing, eyes got big arms were stiff and she started to cry, until i picked get up and she then relaxed?
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A 39-year old female asked:
What type of arrhythmia can cause pounding heart/tachycardia and rapid breathing numerous times a day? It's really bad after eating.
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A 31-year old female asked:
3 year old rapid breathing with 103 fever, sore throat, headache. Is the rapid breathing normal?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Sudden heart palps, tightness in chest, nausea, irritable, rapid breathing, Dry cough. Panic/anxiety attacks?
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