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From Adult Health (Medical-Surgical) Nursing: Why Patients Walk Hours After Surgery
Why can anxious overbreathing make a person's fingers and lips tingle?
- Too much oxygen reaches the nerves of the hands
- Fast breathing raises the potassium in the blood
- Blowing off carbon dioxide makes blood alkaline
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Answer: Blowing off carbon dioxide makes blood alkaline
Alkalosis lowers the ionized calcium available to nerves, making them fire easily and causing tingling or cramps.
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