A woman who used e-cigarettes for only six weeks was hospitalized and placed in a medically induced coma — and doctors say vaping is to blame.
Kate Krzysik, who is a single mom living in Wisconsin, became ill back in December, but she assumed she had the flu."It was really scary," she told Fox6 News."The chills, had a fever, but there was some vomiting involved, so that was kind of off. So that kind of was a red flag for me."
"I picked up the e-cigarettes from the gas stations, which was either Blu or JUUL, because it was less heavy on my lungs, and I didn't smell like cigarettes," Krzysik told the outlet.Krzysik’s sister, Melissa Kuykendall, was shocked that this could happen."I still can't comprehend that I almost lost my sister because that just doesn't make sense to me," Kuykendall told Fox6 News."She's just too young for that to happen.
But EVALI symptoms can mimic other illnesses, such as pneumonia. “The symptoms are very nonspecific, such as coughing,” Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, an assistant professor in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine and director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins Bayview, tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “It sounds like it could be a virus or infection — that’s the hardest part. [But] your body is reacting to a toxin, not an infection.
While some of these acute lung injury cases have been associated with nicotine-only e-cigarettes, the majority have been linked to e-cigarettes containing THC . According to the CDC, a total of 2,668 people have been hospitalized with EVALI across the U.S. and 60 people have died.
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