ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Combolin

Okay kiddo, do you remember playing with blocks and putting them together to make something cool? Well, doctors sometimes use something like blocks called Combolin to help people who are sick.

Combolin is a special kind of medicine made up of small building blocks, called amino acids, that help fight different diseases. For example, it can help people who have problems with their hearts, like heart attacks or heart failure. It can also help people who have low blood pressure.

Just like when we build with blocks, doctors have to put Combolin together in the right order and amounts so it can work properly. They give it to us through a tube in our veins, where it travels through our body and helps our heart work better or raise our blood pressure.

So, in simple terms, Combolin is like a medicine block that helps fix problems with our hearts and blood pressure by putting small building blocks into our body.