Running gasps may be a physiological phenomenon, but also may be a manifestation of cardiopulmonary diseases.
Normal people after a long period of strenuous running will also be gasping, running state of the body’s demand for oxygen increases, the normal respiratory rate can not inhale enough oxygen, to speed up the respiratory rate to increase the amount of inhaled air, there will be gasping performance.
Running gasping may also be a manifestation of cardiopulmonary diseases, patients with cardiopulmonary diseases, such as coronary heart disease, emphysema and other diseases, under normal circumstances, cardiopulmonary function will decline, inhalation of oxygen content is not enough to run when the need for oxygen is higher, a short period of time running may gasp.
Patients with poor cardiopulmonary function can go to the hospital to do electrocardiogram, lung CT, cardiac ultrasound and other related examinations to clarify the cause of the disease, in fact, also try to reduce the running, avoid overwork.