These include shortness of breath, dizziness and rapid breathing. If someone experiencing hypoxemia practices rebreathing with a paper bag, they're not only making their immediate condition worse ...

You've seen plenty of movies and TV shows where a person hyperventilates and is given a paper bag to breathe into. Can wood pulp actually help with ...

All of which brings us back to the person now breathing into a paper bag. With every exhale, they are filling the bag with C02. With every inhale, they make that C02 available to their over ...

According to conventional wisdom (not to mention countless TV shows and movies), breathing into a paper bag is a great way to curb hyperventilation. So why do we do it—and, ...

Grabbing a bag and breathing into it repeatedly, known in medical literature as "rebreathing," has long been recommended to ease rapid, uncontrolled breathing. Some doctors even keep bags in the ...

For a few years (yes, it took years to recover fully) I never went anywhere without a paper bag, just in case. Over time, I began to work out what some of the other triggers were that induced panic.

A man who died of brain cancer was misdiagnosed with anxiety and told to “breathe into a paper bag”. Keith Evans was 21 when he collapsed during a suspected panic attack in February 2010.

Dear Doctor: I was having a panic attack and thought I might faint. My dad had me breathe into a paper bag, and it helped me calm down. I’ve only ...

Dear Doctor: I was having a panic attack and thought I might faint. My dad had me breathe into a paper bag, and it helped me calm down. I've only ...