UNITED STATES: Death from lung problems? Vaping is not responsible!

It's clearly the bad buzz around vaping that has been raging for a few days now. Cases of pulmonary problems which have been increasing for several weeks in the United States but according to the first elements vaping would not be responsible, it is indeed a diverted use of the e-cigarette which could explain them.

"IT IS NOT VAPING THAT IS CHALLENGED!" "

Cough, fatigue, difficulty in breathing and in some cases vomiting and diarrhea. These are the symptoms of mysterious lung problems that appeared in the United States, which already left one dead in late August in Illinois.

Federal health authorities have identified 193 cases, across 22 states. The sufferers are teenagers and adult vapers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Doctors say the illness resembles a reaction of the lungs to inhaling a caustic substance.

In response, the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, asked its residents this week to stop vaping. The CDC wanted to be more cautious on the link between the disease and the e-cigarette. " We do not know if they have the same cause, or if they correspond to different diseases that present in the same way. Their infectious disease manager said.

"It is not vaping that is called into question, but the way" - Jean-Pierre Couteron

Jean-Pierre Couteron - Federation Addiction

For the spokesperson of Addiction Federation, a network of associations that he chaired from 2011 to 2018, “ favorable to vaping as a tool to get out of smoking », The problem is not the e-cigarette but the use that can be made of it.

« Some vapers manufacture themselves their liquids, in the fashion of do it yourself », Regrets Jean-Pierre Couteron. For the psychologist, consumers then take the risk of using liquids of poor quality or unsuitable for inhalation. " What can trigger health problems "He says," Do not play the little chemist. ».

In the United States, health authorities are trying to track down the products used by patients, and to find out whether they were consumed as intended or mixed with other substances. Substances that the president of the American Vaping Association did not hesitate to blame, saying he was "confident" that cannabis was the cause of the disease.

Several states have indeed announced that some of the affected patients had used their electronic cigarettes to inhale liquids containing THC - tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active molecule in cannabis.

Source : Leparisien.fr/