London - Viagra on prescription. Dream of many men. Not so Oliver Sherwood. He needs the blue wonder pill, because he would die without it. The curious thing: Oliver is barely two years old.
The cute blond Oliver suffers from pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, in German. The disease is extremely rare, each year there are only a generation or two diseases at one million. They suffer from severe heart failure, fatigue, weakness, seizures after only a few steps walking. Your blood flow in the arteries and veins is just too bad, it can be transported not enough oxygen.
But Oliver is lucky. His mother Sarah is a nurse and knows how to get hypertension under control: with Viagra. For that promotes blood circulation, increases the potency in men. "Oliver gets a Viagra pill, which he cut into four portions over the day holds," says the mother.
"The active ingredient is in the pill sildenafil is to combat erectile dysfunction," said Martin Fensch by Viagra manufacturer Pfizer. "Sildenafil is also in the drug Revatio, which is used for treatment of pulmonary hypertension."
Revatio is approved only for adults, not children come into question. Also in Viagra to get in Germany only by prescription. Oliver Sherwood's lucky: In England, some pharmacies offer the Potenzmittel without prescription - his life insurance.
The mother of the two-year old: "I hope that it will continue strikes as well. Oli would otherwise go for the drug. Other drugs are priced too high, we can not afford. "
