Male Speaker: You are always finding waste to keep things interesting.
Melissa Madeline: A little blue pill known to help erectile dysfunction is now helping children like Genevieve. She suffers from pulmonary hypertension, lack of oxygen causes her to pass out.
Sandra Hernandez: I just heard like to smash on the floor like I heard something hit the floor, so I turn around, I look and she is like faced down on the floor.
Dr. James Swift: It doesn't allow enough of oxygen into the blood stream to then circulate to the rest of the body.
Melissa Madeline: Typically the only options are heart and lung transplants, but doctors use Viagra to open up the vessels.
Dr. James Swift: Nitric-oxide was developed from these types of issues really in lungs and one of the byproducts was, hey this medication also can dilate blood vessels and other parts of the body and treat things like erectile dysfunctions.
Melissa Madeline: New born can be put on Viagra, the risks into blindness, liver damage, and upset stomach, and looks different then the little blue pill and parents are skeptical at first about giving Viagra to the child.
Dr. James Swift: If we have a child who is in the teen years they obviously wonder well, how do I explain this.
Mike Cooper: I was like what, and they said yeah, the Viagra do right now.
Sandra Hernandez: So we are just like, really Viagra so it - it's working.
Melissa Madeline: This is not a cure but a treatment to bridge the gap for children until one is found. I'm Melissa Madeline reporting.
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