No one product has been pinpointed as the cause.
Patients, mostly teenagers and young adults, reported vaping with either nicotine or THC prior to becoming ill.
Symptoms include shortness of breath, difficulty breathing or chest pain, along with gastrointestinal distress, vomiting and fatigue. Some patients were hospitalized and put on mechanical breathing assistance, but no deaths have been reported. Doctors said that patients arrive showing signs of respiratory infection, but typical treatments, like antibiotics, don’t help.
According to the CDC, the reports came from 16 states, and it is working with health departments in five of those to try and find the source of the illness, like a specific chemical ingredient used in e-cigarettes.the lung illnesses were caused by e-cigarette products containing THC or synthetic drugs, and purchased on the street, as opposed to a retail store.Lung illness potentially linked to vaping is such a new phenomenon that hospitals don’t have a category to track those reports.
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