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Woman with Covid-19 is saved by the supply of Viagra
The drug designed for erectile dysfunction helped him expand his airways, allowing him to take in air.
A 37-year-old nurse from Lincoln (United Kingdom), Mónica Almeida, had been fighting for her life in the Intensive Care Unit for 45 days after contracting COVID-19. The doctors in charge of her case decided to administer Viagra to the patient, just 72 hours after the respirator was disconnected.
Medical reports indicate that this drug helped open your airways, allowing you to breathe properly.
Monica is currently at home after being discharged from the hospital at 6 pm on Christmas Eve. The woman admits that this was her little Christmas miracle.
Almeida was in charge of caring for COVID-19 patients, at the Lincolnshire National Health Service (NHS), where she was infected. After four days, he began to have unpleasant signs of the disease.
He claims that he lost his sense of smell and taste and was also coughing up blood. For this reason, he was admitted directly to the resuscitation room of the district hospital.
Specialists tried to restore his oxygen levels. On November 16 they had to induce a coma. Information on his seriousness was quickly notified to his family, who live in Portugal. Surprised by the news that he was about to die.
Monica says that her relatives were informed that her fan could turn off in 72 hours. He assures that I could have left at 37 years old. However, he kept fighting.
Being in this situation, between life and death, the nurse did not hesitate to approve her intervention in a medical experiment.
In a difficult situation, specialists chose to involve this surprising treatment for Covid-19 : Viagra. This drug was the one that brought Mónica back to life, allowing her to regain her consciousness on December 14, 2021.
The mother of two teenagers, ages 9 and 14, tells The Sun that it was undoubtedly Viagra that saved her life. In just 48 hours his lungs began to react. Making the reference that the drug expands the blood vessels.
He assures that when they notified him that they had administered viagra, he was amused, since he believed that they were making a joke on him.
Viagra has been considered as a potential method of treating Covid-19 patients, for the benefit of opening the airways and dilating blood vessels.
At present, Monica's full recovery has not been established so that she can return to work.
She claims that she owes her life to the hospital staff, where she began her nursing profession. Based on her experience, she invites all people to be vaccinated, after specialists said that she would have died if she had not been vaccinated.
