Peak Flow Expectation readings or averages.

_Whimsical_

Im trying to learn a little about peak flow exhalation.I was told that a "good blow" would be 600ish on the monitor however looking at peak flow charts online expected readings seem to vary depending on height and sex.Are these charts accurate? Are the readings they give as expected flow the minimum safe reading but ideally everyone should be reading at 600 ?I can't seem to find any information giving 600-700 as the gold standard of healthy or normal online.

I'm not looking for medical advice at all,we have plenty of that.I'm just eager to learn a bit more and was surprised at the variation of "normal".

Nonoperational

Depends on lots of things...there will be variations of normal. You can get the charts online that show averages for age.

RobFowl

There are tables here http://www.peakflow.com/top_nav/normal_values/index.html?rnd=2116590794309662942312437483# which show the average values. These tend to be related to sex and age (Peaks around 30 then starts to decline, higher in men) .
Hope this helps.

opinion guy

Awesome...at 700 I'm still off the chart

_Whimsical_

RobFowl wrote: »

There are tables here http://www.peakflow.com/top_nav/normal_values/index.html?rnd=2116590794309662942312437483# which show the average values. These tend to be related to sex and age (Peaks around 30 then starts to decline, higher in men) .
Hope this helps.

Thanks very much for that it was helpful. I'm quite relieved to see that 600-700 isn't what everyone should be aiming for. I was starting to think I'd burst a lung trying to achieve that.