lung damage

  1. haidut

    Endotoxin (LPS) may be the cause of fatal lung damage in COVID-19

    Yet another study, which demonstrates that there is virtually no disease (acute of chronic, infections or not) where the infamous LPS does not play a causative role. As it turns out, the often fatal inflammatory reaction (cytokine storm) that usually kills patients with COVID-19 in ICU, is...
  2. UG Krishnamurti

    Chest/Lung/Back Pain - Like a broken ribcage

    So I remember I was a kid and I had these intense chest pain where I couldn't even walk from the pain - did the MRI and all the tests and everything was fine. [ It's also at the opposite side of the chest - the whole back area ] It's also some feeling of stiffness like I cannot...
  3. haidut

    Breaking News: Viagra Given To Pregnant Women Is Lethal For The Babies

    As horrifying as it sounds, prescribing NO-boosting drugs to pregnant women is apparently perfectly acceptable in the search of more profit. The doctors probably got misled by the common practice in NICU of giving babies with pulmonary hypertension (or other breathing problems) an inhalation...
  4. haidut

    SSRI Drugs May Cause Serious Lung Disease And Fibrosis

    The study tries to downplay the risk by claiming that it is only relevant to "old, frail people". However, the specific lung issue linked to SSRI - bronchiectasis - is almost never found as an independent disease but rather almost always as a symptoms of cystic fibrosis. Given serotonin's...
  5. haidut

    Acute Colon / Lung Damage May Be Due To Endotoxin; Breast Milk Stops It

    The study was done to mimic the condition necrotizing enterocolitis in premature babies, but if you look at the actual study the scientists think the mechanism is probably the same for most cases of acute colon and lung damage. Once again, our old "friend" endotoxin rears its ugly head and acts...
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