Rapid breathing
The normal rate for breathing in an adult who is at rest is 8 to 16 breaths per minute, which in infant is 44 breathe per minute. Tachypnea is the term used to indicste the rapid breathing phenomena that is when breathing is too fast, especially when a person have fast, shallow breathing as a result of a lung disease or other medical cause. The term hyperventilation indicates to the action of rapid, deep breaths. This may or may not be due to underlying lung disease or it can also be because of anxiety or panic.
Shallow, rapid breathing often is because of medical causes, which includes choking, asthma, clotting of blood in an artery in the lungs, heart failure, underlying infection in the smallest air passages of the lungs in children, pneumonia or other lung infection, anxiety, panic related disorder, or other critical condition of the lungs.