Pfizers Viagra (Sildenafil citrate) Saves Under weight Premature Babies

7 01 2008

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(Example of a premature palm-sized baby on an electronic scale which reads 0.832 kg)

 

British doctors used the anti-impotence drug Viagra to save the life of a severely premature baby, media reports have said. Medics in the northeast city of Newcastle upon Tyne gave the drug to Lewis Goodfellow — who was born at 24 weeks, weighing just one pound, eight ounces (780 grammes) — as one of his lungs failed and not enough oxygen was getting into his bloodstream.

The drug opened up tiny blood vessels in his lungs, allowing oxygen to be captured and flow around the body. Lewis, who was born in August last year, was eventually allowed home last month.

“What Sildenafil (Viagra) does is open up the blood vessels so they can capture the oxygen and take it around the body,” he was quoted as saying by BBC News Online. - healthrelatedinfos.com

 

 

Viagra works in this case by acting on an enzyme called PDE-5, which allows blood vessels to expand and increases blood flow to the baby.

Acting on the enzyme called PDE-5 is why Viagra (Sildenafil citrate) has been found to be useful in so many different cases such as: reversing women’s infertility, curing Crohn’s Disease, and curing Raynaud’s disease .


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