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my 15 year old nephew has had a collapsed lung for a week now.?

everytime they go to take out the tube the xray shows he still has air in the suction. well yesterday they put talcum power in the tube to make his lung expand. they told my sister that it is going to burn and he is going to be in massive pain. he is on something called dalated for the pain and everytime he hits the button he breaks out in a rash and after 15 minutes it goes away. she just called me and said the drs said it sounds like the other lung is collapsed. does anyone know what else they can do for this. i need help asap. thank you

Wow...terrible. What other illnesses does your nephew have? Usually they do talc a lung if it is difficult to inflate. This holds the lung to the pleura and keeps it inflated. Why does a 15 year old have such problems with his lungs? Is he tall and thin? They have to get a chest xray to see if the other lung has a pnumothorax.

Contrary to popular belief your lungs are not like two balloons, they are more like a bunch of grapes. So when a lung has collapsed, it usually is just part of a lung and not the whole lung.

Putting "talc" in the plural space is usually something they do when the lung doesn't heal on it's own. But only giving it one week, I am just wondering what else is going on with your nephew.

I will keep him in our thoughts and prayers. Is he on life support?

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