One person has died as a result of severe lung injuries linked to vaping -- and it’s not clear yet what the prognosis for others will be as the number of cases nears 200 in 22 states.
at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, who has treated some of the patients involved.“We have seen our previously healthy patients decline over the course of approximately a week to respiratory failure,” said Emily Chapman, MD, chief medical officer at Children’s Minnesota. Some needed respirators to help them breathe.
“While we have seen improvement in patients, we don’t know yet if they will recover fully or if the damage will have long-term effects. While patients may be out of the hospital, they aren’t necessarily out of the woods yet.” Officials from the CDC, FDA, and other public health groups said during a news briefing Friday that they have not established that particular products are the culprit.
While King can’t say for sure if they are the cause of the injuries, “we do know that e-cigarette aerosol is not harmless.”Before the first reports of lung injuries linked to vaping recently made the news, pediatrician Karen Wilson, MD, had a disturbing preview of what was to come. A family friend’s teenage son had been hospitalized for shortness of breath,, and vomiting. He spent about a week in the hospital, including time in the intensive care unit, where he received respiratory support.
“This situation got very personal,” says Wilson, chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital in New York City., has skyrocketed in recent years. The CDC estimates that one in five high school students and one in 20 middle school students now vape.As symptoms worsened and no evidence of infection was found, Chapman’s team dug deeper.
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