medical question. lung.
By guy226
@guy226 (5)
United States
May 3, 2007 11:08pm CST
hey all, i have a weird medical question.
a friend of mine a 25 yr old female recently went into the hospital with a collasped lung. now, there was no trauma, and no flu or colds to add fluid into the lungs. what could have caused this to happen? now a lil history on the woman, she had the same thing happen around the age of 21-22 and there was no trauma or colds or flu. there is a history of breast cancer in the family. other than that there is no medical problems, ie, inhaler, or sickness'
the woman takes no other drugs, prescribed or non-prescribed. she does smoke but very rarely, say 1-2 cigs per week. the pt does drink, but not overboard, say gets drunk, once every 1-2 months.
also she is a 25 yr old white female, in reasonably good health.
any ideas would be helpful.
thanks.
ps. i belive its the same lung this time as well.
2 responses
@Drakhan (240)
• United States
4 May 07
I asked my girlfriend (who is a nursing student) and was basically told, it can happen spontaneously but there has to be something in her anatomy that would make her more susceptible to it. She also said 30 to 40 percent of the people who've had it happen once will have it happen again. I know that's not much help, but it's the best I could come up with.
@a_ce_e (1421)
• Philippines
4 May 07
I also found pneumothorax , it is called when a lung collapse for no apparent reason. It is also when the air escapes from the lung causing it to collapse. See http://www.pneumothorax.org . I forgot the other website, it says there it is congenital that the lungs is weak and at a certain time, it collapse.
