Talk:Pleurisy

Caruso
Why does the "Sources" section at the bottom include a link to a website about Enrico Caruso (http://www.geopaix.com/caruso/)? Tenmiles 03:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Because, as the article states, Caruso died of pleurisy, and that article was the source for that piece of information.--Srleffler 03:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * My apologies; I failed to take note of that fact, having glossed over the "Famous Cases" section. Tenmiles 06:48, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Hernan Cortes

 * He died of Pleurisy, I'll let someone better qualified do the edit. 68.55.150.25 (talk) 04:53, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Causes?
Can smoking cause it? --85.160.5.215 09:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Can't imagine it would help it! - Ta bu shi da yu 05:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)


 * No. Smokers may have worse episodes, but smoking does not cause it.

Wrong
Ringo Star did not die of pleurisy in childhood and others are wrong too


 * Separated into deaths and non-deaths; spot-checked some facts. Any errors left? Michael K. Edwards 08:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The Mike Nolan link (in Survivors) is to the 49ers coach's biography, despite the clarifying text suggesting otherwise. So who is Mike Nolan of Chicago? Richaux 10:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Help!
Im 17, and i show some of these symptoms... am i going to die. Seriously! im not jjoking here... i've been having these pains for about a year. i smoke too.--82.38.77.108 19:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, eventually. We're all going to die. Pleurisy is not normally life-threatening; but can present complications if untreated. Stop smoking while you're still young, and go see a doctor for a professional opinion. Tenmiles 05:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Pleurisy is a short-term illness, not a disease that lasts more than a couple of weeks. See a doctor if you have chest pains, but it's not pleurisy.

Treatments
Anyone have anything on the treatments for Pleurisy? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stuartyeates (talk • contribs) 15:39, 24 January 2007 (UTC).

''treatment depends on the underlying cause.... pneunmonia would need antibiotics but it is also caused by virus... these can not be treated, both cases you can take pain killers for the pain.''

The Mayo clinic on treatment:. 75.35.201.48 00:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)


 * When I suffered from Pleurisy brought on by Pneumonia I received Clarithromycin tablets (250mg twice a day for 7 days) for the Pneumonia. For the pain I was given Co-Dydramal and Tramadol Hydrochloride, the affect of which would wear off some time before the next medication could be taken. The symptoms (the pain) cleared up after around 12 days. Alls0rts 10:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna of Russia was stricken with Pleurisy while she was working as a nurse on the Eastern Front during World War I. She stated in her biography that she spent weeks with her upper body painted with iodine and covered with cotton bandages. Of course, there were no antibiotics at that point in history.

RogerInPDX 21:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC)RogerInPDX

Pleurisy does not last long -- just a week or two. The pain is intense on any but the most shallow breaths. Steroid medicines relieve 99% of the pain.

Contagious
Is it contagious? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.172.140.34 (talk) 20:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC).


 * I assume not as when I suffered with Pleurisy, brought on by Pneumonia, I was kept in an open ward for a few days before being sent home to recover. Alls0rts 10:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Other references to pleurisy
Billy Connolly references pleurisy in a song entitled "If It Wasnae For Your Wellies" where he highlights the 'vital importance of wellies in Scottish culture': "If it wasnae for your wellies, where would you be; You'd be in a hospital or infirmary; 'Cause you would have a dose of the flu or even pleurisy; If you didnae have your feet in your wellies" LudBob 09:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC) On Tom Waits' "Orphans" album, he includes a song called "On the Road," which was originally written by Jack Kerouac and included on a Kerouac spoken word/singing CD along with a Waits cover. One of the lines is "Don't worry about me, I'm about to die of pleurisy." Whether or not its notable is not my decision; I just want to throw it out there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.85.252.119 (talk) 06:20, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Billy Connolly stole that
From a New Zealand comedian, Fred Dagg "If It Wasn't For Your Gumboots"

Someone needs to get facts right
as to previous dagg adapted billy connely not the other way around His 1976 single, Gumboots, was a hit, climbing to Number 6 on the charts. Gumboots was a modified version of Billy Connolly's If It Weren't For Your Wellies (itself an adaptation of the old song The Work Of The Weavers). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.113.48.17 (talk) 11:08, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Mick —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.47.33.173 (talk) 10:40, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to edit
It is proposed that Pleurisy be part of the trial of a new template; see the green strip at the top of Pain where it has been in place for a couple of months. The purpose of this project is to encourage readers to edit, while equipping them with the basic tools. If you perceive a problem with this, or have any suggestions for improvement, please discuss at the project talk page --Anthonyhcole (talk) 09:37, 10 January 2011 (UTC).

Depending on its cause, pleurisy may be accompanied by other symptoms
The list of accompanying symptoms is so random that I'm tempted to delete it, leaving only the introductory sentence. What do you say? —Tamfang (talk) 20:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Trivia?
== References in literature ==
 * In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, reference is made to Laura Wingfield's bout with pleurosis during high school. At the time, Laura entertained timid but romantic feelings for Jim, who upon asking about her absence, mistakenly hears her say "blue roses" and carelessly adopts the moniker for her.
 * In Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, the main character of Robert comes down with pleurisy.
 * In The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe, the main character, Colin Smith, contracts pleurisy.
 * In the J. D. Salinger short story "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters", the protagonist Buddy Glass is recovering from a bout of pleurisy (and has his chest tightly bound as a result).
 * In Rudyard Kipling's short story 'In the House of Suddhoo', the plot hinges on the pleurisy which Suddhoo's son contracts far away, in Peshawar.
 * In the memoir Bells on Their Toes by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and Frank Gilbreth Junior, the housekeeper Tom is convinced that any medical symptoms are symptoms of pleurisy
 * Michael Jackson stated that he had pleurisy in his autobiography, Moonwalk.
 * In The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom is diagnosed with pleurisy with effusion while in prison
 * In Eight Cousins by Louisa Mae Alcott, the main protagonist Rose Campbell is diagnosed with pleurisy after waiting for her cousin Mac too long in the bitter cold.

This sort of content needs refs to verify notability... -- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:21, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Vomiting blood
There is a huge difference between vomiting blood and coughing up blood. Surely pleurisy won't cause vomiting blood, but it WILL cause coughing up blood. --70.40.151.1 (talk)

Pleurisy aspiration?
In Infected (The Walking Dead), two characters die (if I heard correctly) from "Pleurisy aspiration". Is Pleurisy aspiration a real thing? --EarthFurst (talk) 08:54, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Symptoms
Can anyone check the deletion on January 7 2014? I am not sure about this..Super48paul (talk) 13:08, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Moved here
Pleurisy is simple inflammation of the pleura. These details can go in the article about the people in question. With respect to this symptom none of them are notable and the condition appears to be discussed in passing. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:45, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Notable cases

 * Gaius Marius, a Roman general and statesman, according to Plutarch died of the disease in 86 BC.
 * Flavius Constantius III, a co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire, died of pleurisy according to Sidonius Apollinaris on 2 September 421 AD.
 * Charlemagne, known as the father of Europe for reuniting much of the Roman Empire, died in 814 of pleurisy.
 * Catherine de' Medici, sometimes described as a "wife of one King and mother of three others", died from pleurisy in January 1589 at age 69.
 * Benjamin Franklin developed fever and chest pain in 1790 at the age of 84. He spent ten days in bed having severe cough and difficulty breathing. He died after an abscess in his lungs burst from what is believed to be a case of pleurisy.
 * Juan O'Donojú, last viceroy of the Spanish colony of New Spain (Mexico), died of pleurisy on 8 October 1821.
 * Francis Scott Key died in 1843 at the home of his daughter Elizabeth Howard in Baltimore from pleurisy.
 * William Wordsworth, the English poet, died of pleurisy aged 80 on 23 April 1850.
 * Dominic Savio, Italian Saint, became ill and died in March 1857 at the age of 14 possibly from pleurisy.
 * Tad Lincoln, the fourth and youngest son of Abraham Lincoln, had difficulty breathing when lying down and had to sleep sitting in a chair, and probably died of pleuristic attack, which was believed to be tubercular in origin, in Chicago in 1871 at age 18.
 * Karl Marx, revolutionary and founder of the Marxist school of thought, died of a combination of the disease and bronchitis in 1883 at age 64, stateless and in poverty.
 * Devil Anse Hatfield, a leader of the Hatfield clan and the driving force of the infamous Hatfield–McCoy feud, had a bout of pleurisy in the 1890s (probably 1897).
 * Frank C. Stanley, former Peerless Quartet member, died of pleurisy at the age of 41 on 12 December 1910 at his home in Orange.
 * Mahatma Gandhi suffered from pleurisy during the First World War, while he was in London.
 * Enrico Caruso was struggling with pleurisy in the winter of 1920–1921, which contributed to his premature death.
 * Eli Bowen, a circus performer known as "The Legless Wonder", or "The Legless Acrobat", died on 2 May 1924 in Coney Island of pleurisy days before a scheduled performance for The Dreamland Circus at age 79.
 * Erik Satie, French composer, died from pleurisy at l'Hôpital St. Joseph on 1 July 1925.
 * Rudolph Valentino, an international movie star, died in August 1926 from pleurisy at age 31.
 * Alvin Kraenzlein was the first athlete to win four Olympic titles in a single event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. He suffered from bouts of pleurisy at the end of 1927 and died from a related complication early 1928 at the age of 51.
 * Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, became ill with pleurisy and died of related causes in 1928 at age 87.
 * Anna Pavlova, one of the world's most famous ballerinas, died unexpectedly of pleurisy at age 49 at the Hotel des Indes in The Hague in January 1931,
 * Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., a Broadway impresario, who was credited with staging several hit musicals including Show Boat (1927), died on 22 July 1932 of pleurisy after a lung infection at age 65.
 * Kenji Miyazawa, a Japanese poet and writer, suffered from chronic pleurisy and died of pneumonia in September 1933 at age 37.
 * Nino Manfredi, prominent actor in the commedia all'italiana genre, was given three months to live for his  bilateral pleurisy in 1937. He eventually survived and died at age 83 in 2004.
 * Sir Robert Chesebrough, inventor of Vaseline, suffered pleurisy in his 50s and is said to have treated it by rubbing his whole body with petroleum jelly.
 * Carson McCullers, author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was diagnosed with influenza and pleurisy in 1944.
 * Ringo Starr, former Beatles drummer and solo artist, had chronic-pleurisy at age 13 in 1953.
 * LeBron James, an American professional basketball player, was diagnosed with pleurisy after being admitted to the Cleveland Clinic in October 2005 with complaints about chest pain during practice.
 * Ken Griffey Jr., an American professional baseball player, complained of soreness in the chest and, after a chest x-ray, was diagnosed with pleurisy in April, 2007.
 * Edmund Husserl, a German philosopher who established the school of phenomenology died of a form of pleurisy on 27 April 1938.