# Life In An Iron Lung?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-in-an-iron-lung/347506>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 8, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-in-an-iron-lung/347506 "2006-03-08T05:29:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-in-an-iron-lung/347506/1 "2006-03-08T05:29:39Z")

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How/where do you pee? Isn’t it awfully boring? How long would polio patients usually stay in them? Weren’t bedsores /circulation/ blood pooling/ muscle atrophy a problem? How would you wash an iron lung inhabitant?

Tell me about life in an iron lung.

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-in-an-iron-lung/347506/2 "2006-03-08T05:34:13Z")

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[‘My life with an iron lung’](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3182096.stm)

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**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-in-an-iron-lung/347506/3 "2006-03-08T05:36:39Z")

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Read it. Didn’t answer questions. Sadness.