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Back to Top Causes. Causes of respiratory acidosis include: 1  Diseases of the airways (such as asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease). 2  Diseases of the chest (such as scoliosis). 3  Diseases affecting the nerves and muscles that signal the lungs to inflate or deflate.
Respiratory alkalosis. Respiratory alkalosis develops when rapid, deep breathing (hyperventilation) causes too much carbon dioxide to be expelled from the bloodstream. The most common cause of hyperventilation, and thus respiratory alkalosis, is anxiety. Other causes of hyperventilation and consequent respiratory alkalosis include pain, low levels of oxygen in the blood, fever, and aspirin overdose (which can also cause metabolic acidosis).