E-Cigarette Causes Death

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According to a Facebook post on 27^th June 2015, a woman’s neighbor died with lack of oxygen due to using e-cigarette. An unnamed 67 year old woman Facebook user updated a post in which claimed that she just returned from her neighbor’s funeral. She posted information about her location as Jacksonville, Florida, but she didn’t provide more details such as date of her neighbor’s death or suffered by any other medical conditions.

The form of irritation normally described as lipoid pneumonia. It is a condition that is not specifically defines with the use of electronic cigarettes. According to a 2010 study for examine the lipoid pneumonia explained the situation which normally presents lipoid pneumonia, in the light of radiology and diagnostics, defines that critical external lipoid pneumonia basically creates cough and low-level fever which can be resolve using normal therapy. Most of the patients having chronic external lipoid pneumonia are commonly asymptomatic and it can be specified by chance and detected irregularity on radiologic imaging. These types of patients are considered in the age of sixty or seventy and have an anatomic alteration for swallowing.

Another case reported having lipoid pneumonia in a patient named McCauley in 2012, with the condition of glycerin-based EC liquid used by a patient. Glycerin is a kind of alcohol and it could not be involved in the case of lipoid pneumonia. The research describes that only oil based liquids are responsible causing this kind of severe condition and such liquids don’t use ECs.