5 easy tips to maintain proper lung health

The importance of lungs in proper health is often ignored but that ignorance breaks as soon as one starts experiencing problems in breathing, like respiratory illness, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc. Breathing brings oxygen inside the body and without sufficient oxygen for the body, multiple health issues may arise.

Since the majority of one’s day to day activities cannot utilize the lungs to their complete capacity, one needs to and should challenge one’s lungs with more strenuous activities. Also, surroundings and other external factors like pollutants, allergens, dust, and cigarette smoke causes toxins and tar to build up in the lungs and for the clean-up of the same one needs to help the lung to rejuvenate themselves.

Follow these simple tips to maintain proper Lung health.

Diaphragmatic Breathing

There is a diaphragm muscle that separates the lungs from the other organs in the abdomen. In diaphragmatic breathing, one concentrates on the lowering the diaphragm while one breath in. This act gives one a much deeper breath in. This technique is often used as an exercise to increase one’s lung capacity.


Simple Deep Breathing
It is the simplest way to reach one’s full lung capacity. As one starts breathing consciously, one expands the belly while lowering the diaphragm, the ribs get an opportunity to open up and as one exhales, the opened ribs lay flat and the diaphragm lifts itself up expelling the last bit of air from the lungs.


Elongating your Breathing duration

There is a very simple way to do that. Breathe normally and count for how long your breath lasts. Once you have the average duration of your exhales and inhales, every time while practicing deep breathing try to add one more count to it and that is it.


Sit straight and breathe right

Lungs are soft organs, they do not create space for themselves but instead function in the available space. When one is not sitting in an appropriate position, lungs do not function at their fullest. Slight leaning back on a stable chair while lifting the chest slightly up can be a good position for relaxed breathing.


Staying hydrated

When one is well hydrated, the lung’s mucosal lining stays thin and when the lining is thin, the lungs function better. Thus, when one is well hydrated, lungs function well.

If you are feeling any kind of trouble breathing or discomfort related to breathing and respiration, you must visit a chest specialist in Nagpur. The pulmonology department of KRIMS Hospitals has a well developed, hi-tech department with highly experienced and trained healthcare providers who are ready to help you breathe better.