Doctors from the Mayo Clinic analyzed lung tissue samples from patients who became ill after vaping and determined the damage to their lungs resembles chemical burns, such as those from mustard gas, a chemical agent used during World War I.
Samples from 17 patients – 13 men and four women – were studied. All had a history of vaping nicotine or marijuana products; about 70 percent had a history of the latter. The findings were published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
“These injuries most closely resemble toxic chemical fume injuries, which are thankfully pretty uncommon, but we have certainly seen a similar pattern before in those situations. An industrial accident with a toxic chemical spill, for example, or exposure to poisonous gas,” Dr. Brandon T. Larsen, a surgical pathologist at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., told Fox News.
Larsen emphasized he’s never seen anything like this with cigarette smoking or traditional marijuana cigarette smoking.
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