Anyone getting sick more often since vaping?

[kyfatherof1]

we have actually seen a decrease in the number of sick days in our group. my mom used to get pneumonia atleast once a year and ,knock on wood, hasnt been ill in 2 years!!!! we get the sniffle around our house from time to time but alot less than pre-vaping life.

 

[Darrigaaz]

Jeffree, keep in mind that PG is a known antibacterial and antifungal agent. Also, remember that study about the two sets of rats that were infected with the flu virus, and the group that has PG vapor pumped into the air was fine, but the group with normal air died off?

You are vaping 100% VG stuff, and maybe that doesn't have the same kind of effect against sickness causing microbes?

For the last 2 years, I haven't gotten my normal run of bronchitis, pneumonia, flu, colds, or even dry cough that I had every year since middle school.

Also, my wife is deathly allergic to penicillin, and so she gets strep throat every year and never was able to really kill it fully. Since she's picked up vaping, she missed her cycle of strep throat.

 

[Clover~]

I usually get sick at the beginning of ever semester. When school starts I am surrounded by thousands of people that have been all over the place during summer and they put 100-300 of us in lecture rooms all breathing the same air touching the same chairs.... ick. but this year I didn't get sick. woohoo! I got some sniffles and runny noses but thats mostly weather changing stuff.

 

[Beans]

Jeffree, Im going thru the same as you and had that very epiphany last week. I've been sick back to back and don't think it's a "vaping" problem but rather my lack of cleaning my drip tips, drip cups and mods itself. I've noticed that I'll put down my unit in public places with out much thought....Yikes and I know better than that.. Hopefully a little more cleaning and I'll be better. Good luck to you.

 

[TheScootness]

Funny that you bring this up. I'm actually home sick today (probably could have tough'd it out but didn't want to spread it around) and was thinking about this. I've noticed a huge difference since I've started vaping. I still get sick here and there like before but I notice that the symptoms aren't anywhere as severe and I recover much more quickly. It's like night and day for me.

Before I would get sick on a somewhat frequent basis but it would totally take me out. And it would linger for weeks at a time sometimes.

Also, I don't bother cleaning my drip tips except to rinse them out once and a while. And I only bother with the batteries when I notice a significant drop off in performance.

 

[ThankU4Vaping]

Less often. Used to get bronchitis almost every winter, and I've only had 1 cold since this vaping lifestyle began!

 

[waylonjessi4ever]

Haven't had anything but a small cold about 11 months ago and my on /off allergies .
Hope it gets better for ya

 

[VpnDrgn]

I go along with the school of PG/VG being antibacterial.

Growing up I always had a lot of problems with my sinuses, and getting a lot of sore throats and
colds from breathing so heavily through my mouth. I always attributed this to never having my adenoids
out, and this was later aggravated by a deviated septum from a car crash. Then, after hurricane Katrina,
I seemed to develop allergy problems and catch colds at the drop of a dime.

After I started vaping ( over 1 1/2 years now ), I haven't had anything worse than a little sniffle and
maybe a low grade fever, that would only last a day or two. Another benefit, only one or two migraines
in the last year. I was having migraines damned near every week before I quit smoking.

 

[Wintering]

Hey bro! I'm so glad you started this thread. Hmmmmm.... may I ask what type of sickies you're talking about? Tummy, lungs, head colds? You see, since I started vaping (which I love!) I've experienced them all. Ack! At first, I thought it was a pg/vg thing and then some type of flavoring allergy. ARGH, so frustrating! Gosh, I was a very "healthy" smoker, (never had a cold or anything in the past decade) but when I started vaping .... I turned into a big fat sicko mess! (not pretty!)

Well, I guess I should say - I WAS a big fat sicko mess! Thank goodness I'm all better now. Yay! I'm a thinkin' it was all the goobers in my drip tips. (lots of gurpy stuff can linger in there!) So, I've started washing those puppies every few days. (just regular dish soap, and a q-tip for the inside) And, (I know, I know - I'm tired of hearing it too) but you MUST drink lots of water. I think that's the secret that helps flush out all the other "unknowns" in our systems. (ha, gotta go now. Time to pee again!)

Wishing you happy / healthy vaping!

 

[Mary Kay]

Jeffree, Im going thru the same as you and had that very epiphany last week. I've been sick back to back and don't think it's a "vaping" problem but rather my lack of cleaning my drip tips, drip cups and mods itself. I've noticed that I'll put down my unit in public places with out much thought....Yikes and I know better than that.. Hopefully a little more cleaning and I'll be better. Good luck to you.

Beans...isn't that what bras are for? I never have to lay mine down in public. Of course I do look a bit odd digging it back out!

 

[dijohn76]

I've been vaping for two and a half years, and have not been sick at all. I've only had one sinus infection since I started and I used to get them every 3 to 4 months. Like others have stated I don't do the antibacterial soaps as I think you need your "good germs"

 

[aubergine]

I'm with Mary Kay - I used to get colds and bronchitis and sore throats a LOT - after the first year of vaping and seeing all of that simply disappear I figured it was just serendipity. Now That I'm almost at year two, and honestly have had TWO (minor) colds the whole time (really, it's crazy), no bronchial problems and just a general improvement in general health, I do think it's either the vaping (there's good argument for that in these forums, vapor has some antibiotic properties, and I'm not alone in seeing sickness diminish), or just the smokelessness, or both. I'm very frequently in my office (closed) or bedroom when I vape and I wonder if that's it - lots of secondhand vape. Who knows? But I wish it were happening for you, Jeffree...

 

[Sallyem]

I haven't really been sick at all since I started vaping in February of 2010. YAY!!!!

 

[Dieseler]

Naw nothing unusual for me , but in past had my kids come home with evertything under the sun from school!!!
Now that tested the ole immune system .

 

[jeffree]

Thanks again, all. Maybe my time's coming. For now, there's always Kleenex. Kidding.

Just happened to notice that some of us have two-year milestones coming soon. Shall we party together in January, maybe with a registry so everyone can give us V4L gifts? Sounds reasonable to me.

 

[ThankU4Vaping]

A V4L gift registry! Awesome idea, Jeffree!

 

[Kanza]

Another reason, your nose, mouth, throat and lungs will have shed most of the tobacco residue, exposing fresh and healthy tissue As a result, germs now have a wider field to "play" in We're healthier than when we smoked...but could have opened ourselves up to more opportunities for invasion by pollen, spores, germs, etc. The one benefit, we'll get better faster because we're stronger and healthier

I know when I quit smoking one time, years ago, my allergies nearly killed me and I was advised to start smoking again That was the conventional medical wisdom from ages past...AGES past But, in time, our bodies will adapt to this and be better equipped to fight off the initial invasion so even your frequent colds will become less common All in all, take care of your equipment or, better yet, use limited products while ill and throw the cartos away afterwards

 

[Lisa66]

I know when I quit smoking one time, years ago, my allergies nearly killed me

This happened to me, too. Mine are always worse in the winter (dust mites.....I don't care what you do, you can't get rid of them completely, ever), especially with dry forced-air heat. I quit in January and had a struggle for a while but eventually got past it.

 

[jeffree]

I agree, Lisa. That's an important point, Kanza. I'd forgotten that I had to begin taking allergy meds (allegra, claritin, zyrtec) during this same period, for the first time in years. Yes, there may be a connection there, and yes, my colds no longer linger for long. My experience may indeed be part of the long-term adjustment process after many years of cig abuse.

 

[Flowerlady-8898]

I quit smoking a year and 2 months ago. Before that I had pneumonia at least once a year, after I turned 50, and every year before that, I came down with an upper respiratory infection that made me cough my head off, and lasted over 2 weeks at a time. Since I've been vaping, I've had neither. I don't use anti-bacterial soaps, except to wash my hands before I prepare foods, here at home. I cannot use those types of soap on my body, because it dries my skin out really bad. When I clean my cartos, I boil them out twice, for 15 minutes each time, then blow the water out of them, then turn them upside down to air dry for 2 days, but I have never cleaned my batteries. I haven't been sick, since I quit smoking, except for an occasionally allergy, from the weather changing.​