Can you live without one lung? or do you have to have both?

Question

I am very curious about it.

Answer 1

Yes, you can live with one lung . Just as you can live with one kidney. It is important that if a patient does have one - he or she must be careful in allowing as few pollutants as possible in the breathing passages, etc. If you have only one instrument in which to help the expiration process, it will place more pressure on that lung.

Answer 2

Lungs work in unison...I would guess that you can "live" at least temporarily, on one lung (like if one collapses) but you need the air-capacity from both lungs to get enough oxygen into your bloodstream over the long term. Seems to me that a person on one lung wouldn't feel very good nor be up for a whole lot besides laying about, especially if they had two relatively healthy lungs prior to this.

Answer 3

You can live with just one lung. Many people do.

Answer 4

Thankfully, it's an organ that you can live with just one. A condition that may warrant a removal of one of your lungs could be lung cancer.

Answer 5

My uncle had TB and lost one lung and 3/4 of the other one and he lived quite awhile like that.

Answer 6

yes you can live with only 1 lung.
My father is actually surviving on 18% of his lungs (overall) ~ So you can live on very little lung capacity.

Answer 7

Many people have a lung removed or part of one removed. It's not an easy thing to endure; it will surely effect your stamina afterwards.

Answer 8

Definitely yes____but it depends on the condition of the remaining lung.

Answer 9

One lung is all you have to have, but I would rather keep both of mine if you dont mind...

Answer 10

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