How Do People With Severe Allergies Who Live In A Bubble Breathe?
November 9, 2009 by admin
Filed under Allergy Questions
I do not mean to offend anyone with this question, I am really curious because I ave no clue as to how they can survive!
A person with severe allergies to people or something so bad that they have to live in a bubble–how do they get their air? A tank of air, like you’d use for swimming? Do you have to open it every few hours to refill it with air? Is there a filter? What? I do not understand. Please do enlighten me.
people live in bubbles?
People with that severe allergies generally go live in one of the very isolated communities that cater to life-threatening allergy sufferers; I recall reading about one in the middle of the desert somewhere (very little growing, cuts down on allergens; very dry, so little to no mold or mildew, either), with very minimal houses (chemicals in carpeting and paints, etc, can also trigger many sensitivities and allergies). No bubbles, but still a very strong isolation.
The concept of “living in a bubble” was made famous because of the “Boy In the Bubble”, a boy who had no functioning immune system, so would die if exposed to any infectious organisms, having no defense at all against them. These days, there are treatments to create some immune function in such patients, so the last-ditch “isolation treatment” is generally not necessary.
In what I can find about the two “bubble boy” cases, most references were on the effects of such a life, and attempted treatments, not on their ventilation systems; but one noted an extremely fine air filtration system (catching anything larger than 3 microns) in the mobile suit sometimes used for one.
i’m pretty sure there is an air purifier attached on the outside.