For Home Health Care, Common Misconceptions About Oxygen Inhalation 3

3. Oxygen inhalation will be addictive and dependent.

Oxygen inhalation will not produce dependence, there will be adaptability. And there is a qualitative difference 

between them. What is a dependency? Dependence in medicine refers to the dependence of a certain drug, 

especially drugs that act on the nervous system, which are more likely to produce dependence, including both 

mental dependence and physical dependence. The so-called mental dependence refers to the patient's abnormal 

thirst for the addictive drug, so as to obtain the abnormal pleasure after taking the drug. The so-called physical 

dependence refers to a certain pathophysiological change in the nervous system after a patient takes a certain 

drug repeatedly, so that the drug needs to persist in the body in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms caused 

by drug withdrawal.

Healthy oxygen inhalation or hospital oxygen therapy obviously do not meet the above conditions, and the reasons are as follows: 

*Oxygen is not a medicine;

*Oxygen is a gas that the human body needs to continuously ingest from the air for a long time during its lifetime;

*The symptoms of hypoxia that need to be relieved by oxygen inhalation do not bring any abnormal pleasure;

*We can't expect that the symptoms of oxygen inhalation will be gone once, and the previous symptoms

 that appear after the oxygen inhalation is stopped are actually the manifestation of hypoxia, not withdrawal symptoms.

For home LTOT, if the patient is in hypoxia condition, he needs to inhale the oxygen for a long time. 

What is adaptability?

People living in a certain altitude environment for a long time will adapt to the oxygen content in the air there. 

Suddenly changing an oxygen environment will cause discomfort in a short period of time, just like people 

living in the mainland suddenly go to the plateau, or people living in the plateau suddenly come to the mainland, 

there will be a process of oxygen adaptation. This kind of adaptation is qualitatively different from dependence, 

and it is also different from the addiction or dependence of general drugs, which usually adapts gradually over time. 

Oxygen therapy does not have drugs entering the human body. Inhalation of oxygen directly increases the 

oxygen content of arterial blood, changes the hypoxic state of the human body, and restores and accelerates 

the metabolism of organs, so oxygen inhalation does not create addiction or dependence. 

If a patient whose SpO2 has recovered and maintein above 95, then he does not need to inhale oxygen.

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