Four Minnesota teenagers have been hospitalized with breathing problems after “vaping,” NBC News reports, bringing to 22 the number of teens and young adults in the Midwest who have suffered such issues.
Dr. Emily Chapman, chief medical officer for Children’s Minnesota, a pediatric health system headquartered in Minneapolis, says that four teenagers have been treated in her facilities in recent weeks, all presenting with the same problems. Namely, they showed up at emergency rooms with what appeared to be symptoms of a mundane respiratory infection. Only, they didn’t respond to treatment, and instead got worse.
“They’ve ended up needing our intensive care unit and in some cases assistance with their breathing,” Chapman says.
The one common denominator in the the four cases is that they all admitted to “vaping” — that is, using electronic vaporizer cartridges that burn an oil and turn it into a vapor that is then inhaled.
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