The fluid in e-cigarettes could cause a potentially life-threatening lung condition in some people, British doctors have warned, after a 16-year-old boy suffered respiratory failure in a rare case that has been linked to vaping
The teenager had a fever, a persistent cough and increasing difficulty breathing for around a week, and was initially suspected to have asthma.But after his condition worsened in hospital and the boy experienced respiratory failure, doctors found he was suffering from hypersensitivity pneumonitis -- a condition in which the air sacs and airways in the lungs become severely inflamed.
E-cigarettes have been embraced mostly as a way for adults to quit combustible cigarettes, and health authorities in the UK stand by their support for them as a cessation tool.In a review last year, Public Health England found that vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking conventional cigarettes and was helping 20,000 people quit every year. The agency was concerned that more than half of smokers"falsely believed that vaping is as harmful as smoking.
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