In Canada, obliterating bronchiolitis was first recorded in a vaper - previously, such a disease has not been encountered among users of electronic cigarettes.
Obliterating bronchiolitis occurs when the pulmonary bronchioles (the airways of the lungs) become clogged with inhaled substances, leading to coughing and shortness of breath. Previously, workers in instant popcorn factories and coffee roasters who suffered lung problems from diacetyl released into the air had similar problems.
Now, for the first time, doctors have recorded obliterating bronchiolitis in a vaper, who used vape for 5 months and added tetrahydrocannabinol to the mixture for it, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal. As a result, the 17-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in serious condition and spent 47 days in the hospital, and treatment included, among other things, artificial ventilation.
According to doctors, although a lung transplant was avoided, the patient will not be able to fully recover. Even now, the vaper continues to have breathing problems and they are especially noticeable even with little physical exertion. At the same time, experts emphasized that earlier studies had already detected diacetyl in mixtures for vaping, but there were no cases of bronchiolitis obliterans among users of electronic cigarettes.
We will remind, earlier in the United States faced with an epidemic of diseases in vape smokers, which has already claimed the lives of several dozen people. Against the background of this problem, in different countries of the world, including Russia, the issue of a possible ban on vaping is being discussed.
Maxim Vershinin