Talk:Obligate nasal breathing/Archive 1

Agonal respiration?
Regarding the sentence "Rabbits with advanced upper airway disease will attempt to breathe through their mouths; this is agonal respiration."

As I understand it, the term "agonal respiration" is used in humans only when life is immediately threatened by a cardiac emergency. Is the meaning different in veterinary medicine? How could this be clarified? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 03:12, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

this has to be added, it's crucial yet not mentioned in the article.
the principal purpose of nasal breathing it to filter the air and regulate the temperature, when an animal breaths trhought it's mouth the air is not filtered and with not an optimun temperature, also (and this is crucial) oral breathing tends to create a shallow breathing causing the body of the animal to be less oxygenated, nasal breathing ensures a more profound breath causing the body to be more oxygenated compared to mouth breathing.

in humans mouth breathing is extremely widespread, due to some specific types of food that people eat. also mouth breathing deforms the teeth, jaw, whole face, palate and causes low oxygenation (as mentioned) in the body, which is specially bad for the brain, so it's scientifically proved that mouth breathing is devastating for human's health, it'd be logical to expect that mouth breathing would cause a health problems in other species of animals too.

Other animals is nonsensical
A = "Horses are also considered obligate nasal breathers. The term is more accurate in horses, because their normal anatomy prevents them from breathing orally."

B = "Rabbits and rodents are also obligate nasal breathers. Like horses, the normal anatomical..." "...Rabbits with advanced upper airway disease will attempt to breathe through their mouths"

A or B must be false or a better description of "Rabbits with advanced upper airway disease" is required (and a rewrite of that section). I will ad hoc a temporary fix. 109.49.141.100 (talk) 03:37, 29 October 2016 (UTC)