Saturday, November 22, 2008

Youngest Viagra User

Viagra was originally developed as a remedy for high blood pressure – and its use as a sex drug was only discovered by accident. I am happy to see it is able to save the life of Britain's Youngest Viagra User. The Sun reported Calvin Muteesa was first prescribed the impotence remedy aged just three months. Now he is believed to be Britain’s youngest regular Viagra user, having taken the drug — for up to six times a day — for the past 30 months. Calvin has pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare condition which means his blood pressure is dangerously high. This starves his lungs of oxygen-rich blood.
I hope the doctors can find a better way to treat his conditions, but with Britain's Nationalized Health Service that is not likely, but I am glad they found this will work, and may God watch over Calvin.
The youngster struggles for breath and his heart has to work twice as hard to force blood to his lungs. Viagra relaxes his pulmonary artery, which carries blood to the lungs, and allows more blood and oxygen through.

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