In the Saratov region, a 19-year-old man was hospitalized with pulmonary fibrosis after five years of smoking e-cigarettes. Doctors diagnosed that part of his lungs had permanently lost the ability to breathe. This was reported on Sunday, May 17 by the press service of the Balakovo City Clinical Hospital.
She said that the young man was taken to the emergency room of the pulmonary department, suffering from severe shortness of breath, a sharp rise in pressure to 175/95 mm Hg, and a sharp drop in saturation to 93 percent.
“During an emergency CT scan, areas of limited fibrosis were discovered in the young man’s lungs – living lung tissue had been irreversibly replaced by dense scarring, meaning part of the lungs had stopped breathing forever,” the report says.
The doctors added that when collecting the patient’s anamnesis, it became clear that the patient had been systematically smoking e-cigarettes for five years, while his parents considered “aromatic vaping” a safe toy, the report said. cable– Hospital channel.
On April 23, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced that parliament plans to decide on granting regions the authority to ban the sale of e-cigarettes in May. This decision was justified by the fact that doctors recorded a 30 percent increase in the number of respiratory diseases associated with the use of smoking devices.