When in a house filling with smoke is it better to hold your breath so as not to inhale smoke or breath heavily to inhale any oxygen you can?

Question

When in a house filling with smoke is it better to hold your breath so as not to inhale smoke or breath heavily to inhale any oxygen you can?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Passing out from smoke inhalation happens *really* fast, so you should avoid inhaling it at all cost. How to escape kind of depends on the situation, but I’m gonna assume you can’t just run outside in 5 seconds. So ideally you should get low on the ground (because rising heat carries smoke particles with them) and crawl outside.