What happens if you get a lung infection and you only have one lung?

Answer 1

A small percentage of babies are born with one lung. This can result from birth defects such as congenital diaphragmatic hernia, where the diaphragm is incompletely formed.

The condition is not uniformly fatal, except where the lung is not the only organ with a serious defect (heart, liver, kidneys). Many children who survive infancy with one lung can lead normal, active lives. There are usually medical problems that can be worsened, however, in the absence of two complete functioning lungs.

Conjoined twins are often separated, and in some cases may have only one lung each after surgery.

Answer 2

This condition can result from several different genetic or specific fetal problems (including congenital diaphragmatic hernia). It is rare but not unknown for a baby to have only one fully-developed lung. Many such infants have survived to lead normal, active lives. However, medical conditions involving the single lung can be more severe than where there are two lungs.

Answer 3

A friend lived for 60 years before she found she only had one lung. Unfortunately, she discovered this because she was coughing a lot. This was caused by smoking, and she died within a year of stopping smoking.

Also, my 2 year old niece had only one lung, but this one lung wasn't working well, and displaced her heart, and she also died. So, there you have two extremes. (at least in age).

Answer 4

Well, if you have lung infection you need to go to the hospital and take advice with the specialist. The technology in medical sector is its on peak. A patient with lungs infection can do a lung transplantation surgery.