Hypoxemia Symptoms
Hypoxemia could be generally divided into acute hypoxemia and chronic hypoxemia. Acute hypoxemia happens over a short time, and people will experience symptoms like headache, confusion, sweating, fast heartbeat, wheezing, and coughing. Another noticeable sign is skin color change to bluish or gray due to insufficient oxygen in the blood. Chronic hypoxemia is hard to diagnose at the beginning because it has relatively mild symptoms. And our body can also self-compensate the insufficient oxygen in the bloodstream, making the condition more difficult to detect. However, chronic hypoxemia gradually exerts negative impacts on your body in the long run, and more signs start to manifest with the disease progression including,
- Cor pulmonale
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Polycythemia
- Right-sided heart failure [4]
