around 200 children have been given Viagra for various arterial complications

Many people don’t realise that the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra is not just used to help men get erections but has been shown to assist medically in many different applications. Just recently Viagra came to the rescue again to help a little girl who has a rare heart condition which in fact is so unusual that doctors were not able to give it a name.  For the meantime they have called it multiple bilateral pulmonary stenosis and it involves a condition where the arteries on both sides of the lungs and heart begin to narrow thus meaning that it is extremely hard for her heart to push blood around her body.

The erectile dysfunction drug Viagra works by opening and enlarging the arteries thus enabling the pressure to be taken off this little girl’s heart. Jessica Findlay who is only four years old has to take small doses of Viagra eight times a day in order to keep the strain off her heart and to keep her circulation going strong.

In all it is reckoned that around 200 children have been given Viagra for various arterial complications since the drug was invented. It has been known to help thousands of adults who suffer from pulmonary arterial hypertension which again is caused by the narrowing of the arteries of the heart and lungs.

Jessica is being treated by one of the best heart and lung doctors in the world at the Glenfield Hospital in Leicestershire who said that because blood vessels around the heart and lung area were branched it was extremely difficult to operate on them to open them up but by using Viagra it is possible to open up these arteries without surgery.

Viagra is also being tested by the drug company Pfizer at present to see if it can be used to help men who have suffered from heart attacks or who are likely to suffer from one in the future.