Above 5000 meters, low oxygen can cause nausea {altitude sickness}|.
Breathing can stop {apnea}|.
Blocked breathing, carbon-monoxide poisoning, and cyanide poisoning can cause death from low oxygen {asphyxia}|.
Bronchi can have inflammation, with coughing of sputum {bronchitis}|.
Mucous membrane can have inflammation {catarrh}, typically of respiratory tract.
People can have laryngitis, difficult breathing, and coughing {croup}|.
People can have difficult breathing {dyspnea}.
Inelastic air sacs cause difficulty breathing {emphysema}|.
People can have bad smelling breath {halitosis}|.
People can have oxygen lack {hypoxia}|.
When cold, mucus {phlegm}| can be sticky.
Pleura can have inflammation {pleurisy}|.
Lungs can have inflammation {pneumonia}|.
Air can be in pleural cavity {pneumothorax}|. To treat tuberculosis, induced pneumothorax collapses lung.
High blood carbon-dioxide concentration affects medulla respiratory centers and sends along phrenic nerve and to thalamus intralaminar nuclei, which increase pulse rate and breathing rate {shortness of breath} {air hunger} {breathlessness}.
Breathing difficulties can cause babies to die in cribs {sudden infant death syndrome}| (SID) {crib death}.
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