2 year old boy with rare chest condition is kept alive by daily doses of Viagra

Ichingcarpenter

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Tue Mar-11-08 01:31 PM
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2 year old boy with rare chest condition is kept alive by daily doses of Viagra

A two-year-old boy who is being kept alive by Viagra, faces an uncertain future because of proposed cuts by the Government's drug rationing body agency.

Oliver Sherwood has the sex drug crushed into his food four times a day to control pulmonary hypertension (PH), a rare condition that causes chronic high blood pressure.

Viagra improves blood flow, which boosts erectile function in adults, but also helps open the veins and capillaries to aid circulation in rare cases such as Oliver's.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=530374&in_page_id=1799

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BoneDaddy

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Tue Mar-11-08 01:35 PM
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1. Poor child

I hope he survives long enough to get this condition controlled.

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calico1

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Tue Mar-11-08 01:57 PM
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2. Viagra was originally developed to treat

heart arrhythmia so I am not surprised of this use of it.

I hope the little boy recovers. It always saddens me to see little children have to go through stuff like this.

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Fire_Medic_Dave

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Wed Mar-12-08 11:54 AM
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3. Not quite but close

Viagra was initially developed to treat angina pectoris and hypertension. There were hopes early on that it would be better than nitroglycerin in treating angina in people of African descent. They sometimes don't respond well to Nitroglycerin. So it really wasn't an anti-arrhythmic. Maybe big pharma isn't all bad sometimes. Hopes and prayers to the little boy.

David

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