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So, I looked in the comments, expecting to see discourse or historical background etc, but I found none. Therefore, I decided to learn more and add background. Apparently this machine was used because of polio because polio paralyzes your lungs. According to the wiki article on this bad boy, patients would spend two weeks in there sometimes. They still have these machines, though much, much more modern but they’re barely used at all anymore: “In 1959, there were 1,200 people using tank respirators in the United States, but by 2004 there were only 39. By 2014, there were only 10 people left with an iron lung.” (x)
I’ve read about one man who still lives in an iron lung. He taught himself how to breathe again by gulping down air, but it’s quite laborious because of the paralysis. His name is Paul Alexander, and he’s a lawyer. He’s 71 years old and has spent 65 years in an iron lung. Wild, right? He’s been working on a memoir that he was inspired to write by the recent resurgence of cases of polio caused by anti-vaccers.
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4414081 (can’t hyperlink because I’m on mobile, apologies)
It’s amazing to me to recognize that we only defeated polio in this past century - that my mother’s father had it (he got lucky, it only deformed his feet and thereby kept him out of a couple wars); my mother got the big vaccination that left her upper arm scarred; and by the time I was vaccinated, polio basically didn’t exist. My grandfather must have been born like around 1900, so - in the space of less than 75 years, this was no longer something that parents dreaded the possibility of every summer.
In the 1950s, my mother would go to the corner shop. The owners had a daughter a few years older than my mum. She lived in an iron lung in the back of the shop. Vaccinate your fucking kids.
Reminder that children were in these iron lungs. Children who just wanted their mums and dads, or wanted to cuddle their precious stuffed toy, but couldn’t because of the nature of these machines. Crying because they don’t want to go in this big scary tank, but if they don’t go in the iron lung they would die.
And there’d be hospital wards of these.
This BBC documentary is an excellent one to watch, first as just as a history into the polio vaccine’s creation and why it was important, but also to get a glimpse of the iron lungs in action - 6:58 is when you can see footage of children in these things.
The polio vaccine exists so children wouldn’t have to have a machine breathe for them. All vaccines exist because we don’t want people to suffer. Please vaccinate and get vaccinated.
My mom spent 8 months in the hospital due to polio.
My uncle was hospitalized for over a year.
They were two. years. old.
Give your kids the goddamn vaccines.
My maternal grandmother spent over a year in an iron lung when she was 17 - she and her little sister got sick in the same week.
ALSO!
Post-polio syndrome is a thing!
It’s not super well-understood* but basically, in a certain percentage of people, decades after the initial infection - assuming you survived, that is - you start having more paralysis and more fatigue and more weakness. And you can die!
*Because we started fucking vaccinating people for a fucking REASON, and it’s not a problem if you’re not getting polio in the first fucking place!
In my grandmother’s case, her lungs already weren’t great from the first time around, and she ended up going into cardiac arrest in and had to be on a ventilator for a year, and couldn’t walk anymore - she’d been able to use crutches and go short distances before that - this would have been in the early 80s, so a good 35-40 years after she first had polio.
So even someone “lucky” like that person up-thread’s grandfather, might have severe complications later on, even if they survive it initially!
Vaccinate your fucking kids!
We don’t see kids dying of polio or measles all around us any more, so we’ve forgotten how terrible and deadly these diseases are. When vaccines were first introduced, people lined up around the block to have their kids be the first to get them. Because they knew the horror of what the vaccines would prevent.
iron lungs use something called negative pressure (as opposed to positive pressure) to help air into the lungs of patients because they cannot use their own muscles.
this means that the big “tank” you see fits around the chest of the person, who lays inside of it, like a coffin. their head stays outside the device. subatmospheric pressure is exerted inside the device which means pressure is LOWERED inside the sealed tank. this causes there to be a lower pressue in the TANK than INSIDE the lungs which makes the chest wall expand, inhaling. the pressure is then increased, which causes exhalation. essentially an exolung.
another symptom of ventilation other that psychological distress is cardiac destruction. many people do not think of the heart and lungs as inherently linked organs, but they are. the pulmonary artery goes directly from the heart to the lungs (for blood to be oxygenated) and the pulmonary veins go directly back from the lungs to the heart (to be pushed into the body’s peripheral vascular system and circulated in the body). which is to say, any stress on the resporatory system does irreversible damage to the cardiac system.
these things include: hemoptysis (bloody foam sputum), fluid gathering in the lungs as the heart fails because the body cannot pump out fluid from the weak lungs, children essentially drowning to death in their own fluids, pressure sores all over the body from lack of oxygenated tissue as they have to remain laying in one position (essentially decaying flesh on a living person), slowed cognition and mental processes because of lack of oxygenation to the brain, disturbed growth processes, post traumatic stress disorder… among other things.
so yes. these were torturous subquality of life devices of pure human desperation. they were invented in 1928 by Philip Drinker and revamped several times before the 40s. they were used to quell the tragic and horrendous cries of parents whose children were suffocating to death with no other hope but to be suspended in what looks like a medieval device of agony.
people did all THAT, endured all THAT, to get to the point where research and knowledge was far along enough to create vaccines.
fucking vaccinate.
it is pure selfish ignorance that prevents anyone from vaccinating a child and it should be a reportable offense as child abuse if a parent does not vaccinate a child.