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Medications which act on the central nervous system (brain & nerves) can also suppress the breathing centers of the brain stem. High narcotic doses are often responsibe for suppressing breathing and causing the patient to go into respiratory failure. If taking narcotics respiratory rates should be monitored as well as sauration of oxygen. If oversedated the antidote narcan can be given to reverse the effects.

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Eating can temporarily increase the breathing rate, known as the respiratory quotient, due to the added workload on the body's metabolic processes involved in digesting food. This increase is typically mild and transient, as the body adjusts to the demand. Once digestion is complete, the breathing rate returns to normal levels.

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If you have a larger lung capacity you will breath less so your breathing rate is smaller, if you have a small lung capacity you breath more.

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