Monali experienced severe breathing issues during a live stage performance at a musical festival in West Bengal
Singer Monali Thakur was hospitalized after experiencing severe breathing issues during a live stage performance at a musical festival in West Bengal. According to news reports, Monali was in acute distress and had to halt her performance.
Known for her popular songs like Sawaar Loon and Moh Moh Ke Dhaage, the 39-year-old struggled to breathe mid-performance.
What is shortness of breath?
Also known as dyspnea – breathlessness is described as not being able to get enough air, feeling tightness in the chest, or working harder to breathe. Shortness of breath is often a symptom of heart and lung problems, but the doctors say it can also be a sign of other conditions like asthma, allergies, or anxiety.
Intense exercise or having a cold can also make you feel breathless. Experts say dyspnea is of two types.
Acute dyspnea
This comes on quickly not very long and can be caused due to allergies, anxiety, exercise, and illnesses.
Chronic dyspnea
Chronic dyspnea is shortness of breath that lasts a long time—several weeks or longer—or keeps coming back. Ongoing health conditions like asthma, heart failure, and COPD can cause chronic dyspnea.
Signs and symptoms of dyspnea
A few signs and symptoms of dyspnea include:
- Severe chest tightness
- Feeling like you need to force yourself to breathe
- Working hard to get a deep breath
- Rapid breathing and heart rate, which increase palpitations
- The wheezing sound that causes noisy breathing
What causes breathlessness?
According to doctors, various factors like exercise, illness, and health conditions can lead to shortness of breath. However, the most common causes of dyspnea are heart and lung conditions. Your heart and lungs work together to bring oxygen to your blood and tissues and remove carbon dioxide. If one or the other does not work right, you can end up with too little oxygen or too much carbon dioxide in your blood.
When this happens, your body tells you to breathe harder to get more oxygen in or carbon dioxide out. Anything that makes your body need more oxygen—like a good workout or being at high altitudes—can also make this happen.
Your brain can also get the message that your lungs aren’t working right. This might make you feel like you’re working harder to breathe or give you a feeling of tightness in your chest. Other reasons may include:
- Triggered asthma
- Allergies
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Respiratory illness like bronchitis or COVID-19
- Pneumonia
- Inflammation around your lungs
- Fluid or scarring inside your lungs
- Lung cancer
- High blood pressure in your lungs
- Sarcoidosis
- Tuberculosis
- Partial or complete collapsed lung
- Blood clots, known as pulmonary embolism
- Choking
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