Happy Hypoxia - The New Unhappy!

Besides treating several patients suffering from different orthopedic problems such as any sorts of trauma to bones and muscles or any fractures and doing several orthopedic surgeries , Dr Rahul Sharma, a senior orthopedic surgeon in Sawan Neelu Angels Hospital, New Delhi , has been mentoring people regularly on the do’s and don’ts during Covid times. Discussing the newest research on Covid-19 symptoms - Hypoxia , we had a conversation with him. “Happy is the NEW UNHAPPY ”, he says. A person may feel normal even if his/her blood oxygen level is falling. It’s when your body starves for oxygen without showing any symptoms. Normal oxygen saturation in a healthy individual is 94%. If it falls below this, it’s called HYPOXIA . If a person is unable to feel it and believes everything is fine, it is called HAPPY HYPOXIA . Dr Rahul Sharma, from Life in Motion Clinic says, “ Happy Hypoxia is an alarming situation and also one of the major causes of deaths in Covid-19.” How to detec...