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What Causes Breathing Difficulty While Suffering From Diabetes?

what would cause my husband who is a diabetic to have trouble breathing such that he has to have oxygen? He is 6 1 and weighs 250 lbs. Lately he has been getting short of breath and when he went into the hospital last week to have stints placed in his legs to help the blood circulation, everyday since the surgery he has been on oxygen in the hospital. His breathing fluxiate with the oxygen mask between 80 % to 97%. They won t let him come home until he s at least 95% breathing on his own. I don t understand what would be causing the shortness of breath. The hospital has ran all type of x-rays and they haven t said anything was wrong with his lungs. What should they check for?
Wed, 17 Aug 2016
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Hi, thanks for post, well shortness of breath is caused for many causes, but for the information that you give us, diabetes is an illnes that for itself could causes an type of breathing called kussmaul, that is caused by an incresing of acids in blood, that causes an type of air starving, in this case must be done an arterial blood gases sampling for diagnose an acidosis, in the other hand, interventions like a stent or any other always have risks of respiratory complications from pulmonary embolism, to a ventilator relationed, first one is very difficult to diagnosticate without tomography, but is more frequent in this situation and a forced to discard diagnosis.
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What Causes Breathing Difficulty While Suffering From Diabetes?

Hi, thanks for post, well shortness of breath is caused for many causes, but for the information that you give us, diabetes is an illnes that for itself could causes an type of breathing called kussmaul, that is caused by an incresing of acids in blood, that causes an type of air starving, in this case must be done an arterial blood gases sampling for diagnose an acidosis, in the other hand, interventions like a stent or any other always have risks of respiratory complications from pulmonary embolism, to a ventilator relationed, first one is very difficult to diagnosticate without tomography, but is more frequent in this situation and a forced to discard diagnosis.