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'Consequences not studied': over 120 people in 15 states get sick due to electronic cigarettes

In at least 15 states, more than 120 cases of lung disease or health problems that may be associated with electronic cigarette smoking have been identified, the state department of health said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating severe lung disease among people who use electronic cigarettes.

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The most cases are in Wisconsin - 15 confirmed and 15 under investigation, writes CNN. There are 10 confirmed cases in Illinois and 12 more under investigation. There are 19 cases under investigation in California. The New York State Department of Health said it is "actively investigating" 11 cases. Indiana and New Jersey have reported 9 cases, of which Indiana has officially confirmed 6.

Officials in Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah also said they knew about confirmed or potential cases of these diseases. A total of reports were provided by 42 State and Washington, DC.

“Reports of lung illnesses in people vaping products in New York and other states are evidence that further research is needed into the long-term health effects of these products,” said Dr. Howard Zucker, New York State Health Commissioner.

The CDC reported that it had counted 94 possible cases of severe lung disease associated with vaping, affecting people in 28 states between June 15 and August 14.

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According to officials, it is still unclear whether there is a connection between cases and whether vaping actually became the cause of the disease.

In an email, the CDC encouraged doctors to collect information and samples of what such patients used. The agency said it was working with some of these states to share information and conduct analyzes.

“There are still many unanswered questions, but the health harms resulting from the current youth vaping epidemic in Minnesota continue to increase,” said Ruth Linfield, state epidemiologist and medical director of the health department. “We urge educators and parents to be aware that vaping may cause unexplained breathing problems, lung damage and illness.”

Tracking the link is hard

The Minnesota Department of Health reported that some patients were hospitalized for “several weeks,” and sometimes ended up in the intensive care unit. They developed symptoms such as shortness of breath, fever, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, and chest pain.

Dr. Emily Chapman, the head physician of the Minnesota Children's Hospital, reported four cases and said these diseases were difficult to diagnose because they might look like a normal infection before leading to more serious complications.

Experts say the disease is also difficult to track, because lung disease associated with smoking electronic cigarettes is not under the mandatory control of official health authorities. Some health departments said they did not track this data.

However, states issue notifications in the hope that doctors will notice the prompts and ask the right questions to their patients. In Colorado, Georgia, and Kansas, healthcare professionals tried to find vaping-related cases by analyzing data from emergency departments.

“There is no clear diagnostic code for lung disease associated with e-cigarettes. So it will be difficult to notice them and track them,” said Dr. Humberto Choi, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist at the Cleveland Clinic.

Choi has seen three cases in the past few months — and he suspects there were others that no one linked to vaping without suspecting a potential cause.

“People have the impression that vaping is safe,” Choi said. They do not link the new symptoms to e-cigarettes. It's hard to know what to expect in these cases because it's something new."

There is no clear culprit

Thomas Haupt, an epidemiologist of respiratory diseases at the Wisconsin Department of Health, said there were cases in his state where “otherwise healthy young people were treated with severe respiratory diseases, and in some cases they had to be referred to intensive care units and had mechanical ventilation ".

Initially, the lung disease looked like it was caused by an infection, “but all the tests were absolutely negative,” he added.

Haupt said the cases in Wisconsin have been seen primarily in the southeastern part of the state, an area that borders northeastern Illinois, where the state's first patients were hospitalized.

Although officials are still trying to determine which products the patients used, in some states, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, and New York, it was reported that it was also about nicotine and marijuana.

In Wisconsin, “all patients reported vaping before hospitalization, but we do not know all the products they were using during that time,” said Andrea Palm, deputy director of the state health department. “The products used may include a number of substances including nicotine, THC, synthetic cannabinoids or a combination of these.”

Health experts have indicated that various substances in e-liquids can harm cells or contain “hazardous chemicals,” but the full extent of the short-term and long-term risks associated with e-cigarettes is unclear. There are also a number of counterfeit and counterfeit products on the market that may contain other additives or ingredients. It is unclear whether this plays a role in these cases.

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