>> So there are growing health concerns about vaping the CDC. The FDA and state leaders here
in Florida
are looking into several
possibilities of conditions
late specifically the E
cigarettes so just and June 28
of this year couple months ago,
a 153 cases of lung problems
after vaping have already been
reported in 16 states,
including Florida. Doctors are
doing a much better job of
tracking this in fact look at
these pictures one 17 year-old
has described the moment, his
lungs started failing, that’s
tristen though field he says he
felt like you could only take
half breaths in his heart was
going a 100 miles
per hour. He in fact spent 10
days on a ventilator at a Fort
Worth Children’s Hospital.
So doctor Maria Miranda
pulmonologist from orange Park
Medical Center is joining us
this morning to discuss part of
this. You know the problem is
that when it comes to vaping
like we were talking about only
been out there for about 10
years. There are just so many
things that we don’t understand
or know about
the thing.
>> Exactly right it was a into
this to the United States in
2006 AM and it’s a pet with you
or
to know what are the long-term
effects of abating.
>> Any surprises with this
number of cases because
this is now being tracked
better we talked you know this
could have been happening all
along but I’ll doctors are
working to of people are right
to your asking the questions
did you bait
and now you’re here in the e r
like any surprises by seeing
these type of side effects I’m
not at all surprised we all
know that them.
There are many side effects of
nicotine use. And now we are
also realizing that there are
other components in the M
liquid that we use in the is to
get it some.
>> That could potentially be
very harmful to our system.
>> As far as the commonality
here we know it’s vaping as far
as what compound or product
they
were using that’s harder to
gain like what you’re talking
about the liquids in
the flavoring there there’s no
real regulation as far as what
able to go in there, we know
harmful metals, we know there
are things in there that can
be problematic.
>> as you said there was no FDA
regulation to out of this you
think that’s going to change as
we get more information about
this episode is not a valid in
the need for that
of course I think that in the
future that’s what we’re
looking at.
You know many of these cases
patients as well they had
different.
Reactions to the vaping
like some of it was breathing
it was diarrhea some had chest
pain. So that’s also difficult
to what the but this attempt a
relationship of all this in
this is set to vaping. You know
looking forward
you kind of explain that I
think people and I know this
for a fact is I did stories
right talk with teenagers and
they just think it’s safe.
You know like at least I’m not
smoking cigarettes
are people who are weaning off
of cigarettes at least I’m not
doing that they thing is 100%
safe right you can sit here and
say
that today. No we cannot say
that safely today what do you
think it’s going to get that
message across so that
teenagers, especially
or just are smarter and they’re
not just trying it in the car,
I think education education
education is important.
Advising them what are the
adverse affects of vaping is
very
short term and long term affects brain is very important.
And among others, it’s
them to smoking tobacco
cigarettes and if you just what
you find the teenagers versus
the adults, sometimes they are
able to wean
but the teen sometimes as a
gateway is actually a gateway
to smoking the actual tobacco
in the future which we know is
extremely
dangerous and everything that
we’re talking earlier it took
50 years to get that data
to get that surgeon general
that smoking causes
cancer We just were 10 years
and a vaping so many years
before we really have that data
exact the 19 60 was the only
time that the surgeon came up
to the warning. But the back to
you says been
there for decades before that
that might make you so much we
don’t know a lot but we do know
that he should not be vaping so
you know definitely have those
conversations with your kids