From what I've read, Remdesivir causes your kidneys and liver to shut down, which in turn, allows the fluids in your body to collect. With nowhere else to go, the fluids end up in your lungs. So, the ventilators are then utilized. The ventilators' high pressure then ends up tearing up your lungs and you drown in your own fluids.
Pilots are probably ok because they don't have anything shutting down their kidneys and livers. The extra force from the oxygen probably isn't enough to damage anything.
Don't forget -- a lot of people use CPAP machines at night to breath. The air is pressurized by the machine and no one's lungs get blown out by them. The air pressure is determined by how bad your problem is.
When you first start to use one, it seems really easy to breathe in, but a struggle to breathe out. This is only a temporary issue, as your lungs will get stronger. You won't even notice the extra pressure once you've gotten used to it.
There is one danger for the pressure from a CPAP though. I had to reprogram one of mine once when it lost its settings. I got the high number wrong (put 18 instead of 16). My lungs handled it just fine, but it caused me to swallow a bunch of air that night. The next day I was in urgent care with massive pain due to the amount of air in my intestines. You could see it as black space on x-rays. They actually put me on strong pain killers just so I could stand up straight. Took 3 days before I felt normal again.
I'm surprised you were able to access the settings for the pressure. On mine it had to be set by the guy that delivered my machine and showed me how to use it.
Of course, I was able to hack into the " super secret" control menu before the guy was even halfway down the road. 😂🤣😂 It was a common trick that was used for other computer-related gizmos, like printers, when I worked in IT.
From what I've read, Remdesivir causes your kidneys and liver to shut down, which in turn, allows the fluids in your body to collect. With nowhere else to go, the fluids end up in your lungs. So, the ventilators are then utilized. The ventilators' high pressure then ends up tearing up your lungs and you drown in your own fluids.
Pilots are probably ok because they don't have anything shutting down their kidneys and livers. The extra force from the oxygen probably isn't enough to damage anything.
Don't forget -- a lot of people use CPAP machines at night to breath. The air is pressurized by the machine and no one's lungs get blown out by them. The air pressure is determined by how bad your problem is.
When you first start to use one, it seems really easy to breathe in, but a struggle to breathe out. This is only a temporary issue, as your lungs will get stronger. You won't even notice the extra pressure once you've gotten used to it.
There is one danger for the pressure from a CPAP though. I had to reprogram one of mine once when it lost its settings. I got the high number wrong (put 18 instead of 16). My lungs handled it just fine, but it caused me to swallow a bunch of air that night. The next day I was in urgent care with massive pain due to the amount of air in my intestines. You could see it as black space on x-rays. They actually put me on strong pain killers just so I could stand up straight. Took 3 days before I felt normal again.
I'm surprised you were able to access the settings for the pressure. On mine it had to be set by the guy that delivered my machine and showed me how to use it.
Of course, I was able to hack into the " super secret" control menu before the guy was even halfway down the road. 😂🤣😂 It was a common trick that was used for other computer-related gizmos, like printers, when I worked in IT.