Sore Throat linked to e-cigs?

[trysomethingnew]

Hi All

I posted on here a few weeks back about what was the best e-cig to buy. I settled in the Mirage. I am much happier with this than my Cig Star product. Sorry I'm not up on the model numbers.

But now I've developed a sore throat. In the few days I was trying to switch to e-cigs it seems this has started. I wonder if its related. I wondered if I was coming down with Swine Flu, but no other symptonms have developed, just a sore throat and a bit of light chest congestion and the feeling that I need to keep clearing my throat. I've switched back to analogs and its stil there but not as much.

Maybe I have just caught a bug. The analogs aren't good for it either but as its tolerable. Worse in the morning and gets better with a hot drink, I've not given up smoking entirely.

Also maybe its a menthol...I only bought menthol cartridges. I never used to smoke menthol analogs. Just wondering if anyone else has found e-cigs give them a sore throat?

[azvagabond]

Analogs cause your mucous membranes to create more mucous in order to protect you from the poisons, thus lubricating your throat and lungs. I've found that drinking more fluids is almost a necessity with vaping...which is a good thing, if they are the right fluids!

[azvagabond]

Also...there is a healing process that your body needs to go through once you quite analogs.

[Jackie P]

I had a sore throat for the first week of vaping and not smoking, it's apparently quite common and shouldn't last for too long. Just make sure you drink plenty.

[mckenzie_boi]

Yeah my throat was a bit sore, kept clearing it. Its common and mine has now gone, like others have said just keep drinking fluids and you will be fine.

[ApOsTle51]

some people have a reaction to PG , try some VG based liquid it may help.

I was the same when i first started vaping..dry throat , felt a little chesty but it soon went...

[Mechanical_Animal]

This happens to me when using PG but recently switched to VG and currently not experiencing this anymore, will give it a bit more time and see how it goes.

Unrelated but I saw somewhere on the forums about PG being processed into Lactic acid by the body after vaping it and I belive this to be true, for the first 2 weeks I vaped I could barely make the walk to work as my legs were on fire!!!

I am a fit and relativley healthy young guy (Besides having smoked manuals) and this worried me as it had never happened to me before even when climbing several munroe's 4000 ft +

Cheers

Mechanical_Animal

[Bjorn Toulouse]

fags also have an anasthetic added to them hence the choking sensation when you inhale a pipe