‘King Of Pop’ Icon Michael Jackson Health Conditions
‘King Of Pop’ Icon Michael Jackson Health Conditions are full of wild speculations and some true. But, perhaps the autopsy preformed today will give his family, friends and fans some answers. Michael Jackson died Thursday afternoon, June 25th, 2009, after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital in cardiac arrest, had a long history of confirmed health problems, in addition to rumored conditions.
(pic) Michael Jackson, in 2005
Most baby Boomers will remember back in 1984, Jackson was burned while singing for a Pepsi-Cola commercial in Los Angeles. It occurred when the special effects smoke bomb misfired. He had to have major surgery on his scalp, and it is said that because of the intense pain he developed an addiction to painkillers.
Michael Jackson, 50, also was reported to have a form of Lupus in the 1980s, but it was later said to have gone into remission. As a Lupus survivor, I know that just because Lupus goes into remission, does not mean that you do not still have it.
He has had numerous plastic surgeries, including rhinoplasty and a chin implant, but when I think of Michael, I think of him when he was with the Jackson Five. How do you remember Michael Jackson?
In 1993, Jackson’s dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, released a statement saying that Jackson had a rare skin disease called vitiligo. Vitiligo causes a person to lose melanin, the pigment that determines the color of skin, hair and eyes, in patches or all over the body. The condition affects 1 percent to 2 percent of the population, and no one knows what causes it. Like Lupus, it is an autoimmune disease.
‘King Of Pop’ Icon Michael Jackson Health Conditions lit was long, he was also hospitalized with chest pains in 1990 and postponed a concert because of dehydration in August 1993. A concert tour was cut short in November 1993 because of an addiction to prescription painkillers amid allegations of child molestation. He later did tours in Europe where he was better received.
During a rehearsal at the Beacon Theater in New York in December 1995, the entertainer collapsed onstage from apparent dehydration and low blood pressure and was hospitalized.
While jurors deliberated in a case in which he was accused of child molestation in June 2005, Jackson went to a hospital for treatment of what his spokeswoman stated was recurring back pain. He had complained of back problems before.
‘King Of Pop’ Icon Michael Jackson Health Conditions also had rumors circulated in December of 2008, that Jackson was ill and in need of a lung transplant because of Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a rare genetic condition which affects the liver and lungs.
More rumors emerged in May that Jackson had skin cancer. But Randy Phillips, president and CEO of AEG Live, told CNN at the time, “He’s as healthy as he can be…no health problems whatsoever.” Apparently, he was very wrong.
Micheal apparently collapsed in his home in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 25th 2009, and was taken by ambulance to UCLA Medical Center.
Brian Oxman, Jackson family attorney and friend, reports that “Jackson’s use of medications had gotten in the way of doing rehearsals.”
“His injuries, which he had sustained performing, where he had broken a vertebra and he had broken his leg from a fall on the stage, were getting in the way. I do not know the extent of the medications that he was taking,” he stated. But he also said that “there where people who were enabling Michael’s addiction to prescription drugs.
Cardiac arrest, is distinctly different from heart attacks. It affects about 300,000 Americans every year. Without immediate efforts to resuscitate a person, the survival rate is usually 5 percent to 15 percent.
If cardiac arrest resuscitation takes longer than three to five minutes, a person could experience profound impairments, particularly neurological developments. Beyond five minutes, the likelihood of success falls quickly, especially in older individuals. Younger people can tolerate cardiac arrest recuperate somewhat better.
For the full report of ‘King Of Pop’ Icon Michael Jackson Health Conditions, go to CNN News.
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i remember when i was younger seeing him in concert with the donny osmond in st. louis mo. i think michael jackson was a great artist and alot of us will really miss him. but now he is in the heaves. i think it is time to remember him in all that he has done, and stop talking bad about him.just like they did when elvis passed away about taking alot of medication. leave him alone let him go in peace.and show the jackson family respect. if u can’t say anything good about michael keep your thought’s to yourself. we love you .michael jackson and your family are in our prayer.to the family of michael jackson there alot of us here in the time of your sorrow. we will always remember him in his music. and we are sorry for your lost…