Electronic cigarette, alarm also in Europe: risk death at 19 years

THE'alarm for possible serious diseases related to the use of electronic cigarette also arrives in Europe, after the hundreds of cases registered in the United States of which we have spoken with Alessandro Politi, in the service you can see above.

The life of Ewan, 19, was rescued at Nottingham Hospital in England later days between life and death in respoiratory insufficiency and supported by extracorporeal oxygenation. He was diagnosed a pneumonia from hypersensitivity, or a serious pathology to alveoli, intersizio and bronchioles. To provoke it would have been an immune response to the inhalation of chemical substances and the suspicion is that these substances have been inhaled precisely vaping.

The boy had started using electronic cigarettes in 2017 when he had 16 years, to quit smoking and improve in sports like boxer. Then came cough, fever, breathing difficulties. He could hardly breathe, he felt himself suffocating in his sleep. After antibiotics and bronchodilators, he turned to the hospital. Doctors have diagnosed him with hypersensitivity pneumonia due to the use of electronic cigarettes, as reported by scientigica magazine Archives of Disease in Childhood. In the article, which you can read in the original clicking here, you can read how these doctors warn of possible risks of vape.

After 35 days of hospitalization, on antibiotics and steroids and a long rehabilitation due to muscle weakness that arose from the very aggressive treatment, Ewan is now better off. "I thought I would die"he said BBC, "It took me six months before I could get out of bed. I have not yet returned to normal, the vape ruined me, I would like my friends to stop too ".

For the doctors who treated him the fault is electronic cigarettes. In practice, something he was smoking would trigger his immune system as per allergy, causing him a very serious pneumonia. In particular there are some aromatic liquids of electronic cigarettes that would also contain irritants.

There are still many doubts, we repeat it once again. And doctors and researchers are working all over the world to evaluate every hypothesis and to understand if there is a scientifically certain correlation between the use of electronic cigarettes and very serious pathologies like that of Ewan.