Lungs
We breathe in through our nose (or mouth) and the air goes down our windpipe into our lungs where the blood picks up the oxygen from it.It takes this oxygen to each cell. Amazing isn’t it? This oxygen is taken in things with a funny name called Bronchioles…the arrows are pointing to these. There is a big muscle (muscles are things that help parts of our body move) called the Diaphragm which lays underneath your lungs. It moves down when you breathe in and up when you breathe out. You can’t see any of this of course. It is all happening inside you, all the time as you get on with whatever you are doing. You can see what happens if you use a balloon….as you breath out your breathe into the balloon, it blows up just like you lungs do when you breathe in. When you let go of the balloon (without tying it) it deflates, goes down, with a hiss. That is like you breathing out.
You may have noticed that things have been a bit a strange recently. You haven’t been doing many things you would normally do. You may not have gone to nursery school, not seen family or been to play with friends. There has been no Messy Munchkins! This is because there has been a nasty sickness going around that has effected people’s lungs and made them very ill. We all breath in and out all the time and this breath holds little wet droplets which may have bugs in them. So we have been told not to see so many people to help stop this nasty sickness spreading. Now many of us wear masks when we go out and mix with other people, to help protect them from us, and us from them!
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