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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 09:55 AM Feb 2012

Viagra could help kids with rare disorder

http://www.wlbz2.com/news/article/190580/9/Viagra-could-help-kids-with-rare-disorder

http://www.wlbz2.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1468564638001

STANFORD, CA. (KNTV) - The little blue pill Viagra is known for helping men perform better in the bedroom, but now it is being used to help children with a rare lymphatic disorder.
Early reports show Sildenafil, better known under the brand name Viagra and sold as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, reduced the size of growths in some children with lymphatic malformation, an abnormal sponge-like growth that contains clear fluid.

The malformation causes cysts to swell and clog up the lymphatic system often leaving children with massive and sometimes deadly growths on their faces and necks.

Dr. Al Lane, a pediatric dermatologist at Lucile Packard Children?s Hospital at Stanford University, treated an infant girl who had severe lymphatic malformation.

She had growths that swelled up in her chest and wrapped around her heart, putting her at high risk of heart failure.

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Viagra could help kids with rare disorder (Original Post) xchrom Feb 2012 OP
Finally a some good is coming from that STUPID BLUE PILL Justice wanted Feb 2012 #1
that blue pill is good news for me. xchrom Feb 2012 #2
sorry. My female sexists rants are at it after all this birth control B.S. and the Issa hearing. Justice wanted Feb 2012 #4
It's all good. Nt xchrom Feb 2012 #5
the real purpose of those blue pills. mopinko Feb 2012 #7
Interesting. nt BlueIris Feb 2012 #3
Also my eighty year old mother too. Loudmxr Feb 2012 #6
Maca Indiana Feb 2012 #8
so are there plcdude Mar 2012 #9

Justice wanted

(2,657 posts)
4. sorry. My female sexists rants are at it after all this birth control B.S. and the Issa hearing.
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 10:43 AM
Feb 2012

my bad. sorry.

mopinko

(70,092 posts)
7. the real purpose of those blue pills.
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 11:59 AM
Feb 2012

it is most often prescribed to counter side effects of medications to control blood pressure, and circulation problems caused be diseases like diabetes. especially when treating side effects of medication it helps men, and their partners, not have make a choice between a love life and a heart attack.
they really aren't just happy pills.

plcdude

(5,309 posts)
9. so are there
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 06:32 PM
Mar 2012

side-effects? How strong is it? Where do you get it? What is overall evaluation of it?

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