How dry can your lungs gets before having issues...

[StarDose]

Just an odd thought I had today...

vaping dryes out your mouth and throat but you can drink water to help that. But what about your lungs? I have read that vaping reduces lung function temporarily, which I assume would be due to lungs drying out a bit from vaping then get rehydrated from your body.

Have there been any tests for drying out lungs and how far you can go before having serious issues.

Also does VG have the same drying effect as PG? The dry mouth and throat would be nice to not have anymore, or atleast not drinking so.much water in a day XD

 

[Talyon]

Ok first please put up link to this lung issue, secondly PG is used in hospitals and inhalers to help lung function.

 

[KerryK]

As far as drying, the majority of responses here on ECF seem to concur that PG dries much more than VG. This is true for me as well, when I switched to 50/50 it helped, 80/20 or full VG was best.

That being said I still drink lots of liquids, which is good for you!

 

[eratikmind]

Yes, please . . . I would like to know of the source for this information, as well.

 

[Kagey K]

Just an odd thought I had today...

Vaping dryes out your mouth and throat but you can drink water to help that. But what about your lungs? I have read that vaping reduces lung function temporarily, which I assume would be due to lungs drying out a bit from vaping then get rehydrated from your body.

Have there been any tests for drying out lungs and how far you can go before having serious issues.

Also does VG have the same drying effect as PG? The dry mouth and throat would be nice to not have anymore, or atleast not drinking so.much water in a day XD

Ok first please put up link to this lung issue, secondly PG is used in hospitals and inhalers to help lung function.

Thankfully the air you breathe in is full of water vapor, so you never have to worry about that. You body will only absorb and change as much of the water in oxygen as necessary so you lungs will never dry. They should as they heal actually use that O2 vapor as a cleansing mechanism. This is one of the weirdest, yet dumbest concerns I have read concerning vaping.

 

[StarDose]

Ya I know that PG is used in allot of things, I also have read so much I wouldn't remember a.link to a specific study. It mainly just showed a short term reduction in the lungs during/right after vaping, wasn't a major life threatening reduction.

I was just curious if there was anything anyone knew about drying out yours lungs since it obviously dryes out your mouth and throat so logically it would dry out your lungs aswell. I'm not trying to put down vaping just curious...

 

[Canderson180]

liquid in the lungs is bad... I see where you're coming from. It does have some interesting properties, but Canada did a study that showed animals kept in a room of "PG-ized" air show no change in function of all major organs. We need more public information on this stuff.

 

[Kagey K]

Ya I know that PG is used in allot of things, I also have read so much I wouldn't remember a.link to a specific study. It mainly just showed a short term reduction in the lungs during/right after vaping, wasn't a major life threatening reduction.

I was just curious if there was anything anyone knew about drying out yours lungs since it obviously dryes out your mouth and throat so logically it would dry out your lungs aswell. I'm not trying to put down vaping just curious...

No because every time you breathe you suck in water, you can deny yourself a drink, you can't deny yourself air. Your lungs convert what they need out of the oxygen. It's involuntary and completely unrelated to your mouth and digestive systems.

You aren't going to start coughing dust because you vaped too much.

How about saying you are pooping tar because you smoked cigarettes and your lungs got tar but so did your throat and mouth. Does that make sense?

 

[Kagey K]

liquid in the lungs is bad... I see where you're coming from. It does have some interesting properties, but Canada did a study that showed animals kept in a room of "PG-ized" air show no change in function of all major organs. We need more public information on this stuff.

I hate to double post, but you posted after I started replying. He wasn't talking about liquid in the lungs he was talking about lack of liquid in the lungs. Almost like dehydrating your lungs. Like vaping could turn your lungs into beef jerky or something.

 

[KerryK]

Pooping Tar?

Thanks, now I gotta get that image outta my head!

 

[StarDose]

Ya they hide the good studies and publicize the small bad thing like everything else...

I didn't say you would cough up dust... obviously if you were able to dry out your lungs you would be dead..

Ill have to go study how lungs function so ppl don't take offense to questions thinking someone is trying to put down vaping...

 

[Talyon]

Seems I can't find any such study using google, but no matter.

I've not heard or read anywhere that the lungs are affected by Vapeing as u suggest. Now wonders if your a troll.

If not oh we'll, don't worry be Vapey.

 

[StarDose]

I think it was when I Googled health risks or something like that a couple weeks ago. Don't use the word vaping it will just lead you to forums instead of studies. Still was only saying a minor temporary change with non smokers and smoker but no change in ppl with copd.

I don't get the pooping tar but the smoking getting tar on mouth throat and lungs made sense. The last thing I wanted to do was get ppl upset...

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[Kagey K]

Pooping Tar?

Thanks, now I gotta get that image outta my head!

Watch a baby take is first or second bowl movement and you will be scarred, it is exactly what I described.

Ya they hide the good studies and publicize the small bad thing like everything else...

I didn't say you would cough up dust... obviously if you were able to dry out your lungs you would be dead..

Ill have to go study how lungs function so ppl don't take offense to questions thinking someone is trying to put down vaping...

It's not so much about the lungs it's all chemistry and anatomy.

Humidity is the water in the air that day, when you breathe you get all the water particles, with the oxygen. Your body converts what it needs and passes the rest back as Carbon Dioxide. You cannot dehydrate or over hydrate your lungs unless there is an illness involved that messes with some of the brains blockers.

You can voluntarily deny or accept some of your brains signals, but the essentials to live, nature takes care of by themselves. You cannot dehydrate your lungs without outside interference to your basic brain signals. This can be caused by some prescription drugs but thats another story.

 

[eratikmind]

I hate to double post, but you posted after I started replying. He wasn't talking about liquid in the lungs he was talking about lack of liquid in the lungs. Almost like dehydrating your lungs. Like vaping could turn your lungs into beef jerky or something.

LMAO . . . Stop. You are killing me.

Andy

 

[patkin]

Links to two recent studies:

http://www.cspnet.com/news/tobacco/articles/study-e-cig-vapor-less-injurious-cigarette-smoke

TESTS FOR THE CHRONIC TOXICITY OF PROPYLEXE GLYCOL AND TRIETHYLENE GLYCOL ON MONKEYS AND RATS BY VAPOR INHALATION AND ORAL ADMINISTRATION


Monkey's faces got slightly dry so obviously there been some facial dehydration at very high saturation. Even so, autopsy showed no differences in animal's organs, including lungs, in PG and those in normal air.

 

[Kagey K]

I don't get the pooping tar but the smoking getting tar on mouth throat and lungs made sense. The last thing I wanted to do was get ppl upset...

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Obviously you know less about anatomy then I thought. Much of what you breathe in your lungs is brought through the same membranes and systems that reach your stomach and digestive system. You suggested that if it affected your throat and mouth it must affect your lungs. It affects your stomach much the same way. Where does your stomach go? Hmmm seems like this is now 1+2=3 but 2+1 = ?

 

[Talyon]

Scared em away, not my intention. Just wanted proof. Thanx all for the recent analogy and studies. Now my mouth is dry from typing.

 

[StarDose]

I just suggested that if breathing in a vapor that goes into your mouth down your throat and into your lung would have the same drying effect and if there would be an issue. A simple answer would have been sufficient... and clearly if I asked this question I do not know allot about anatomy...

New member forum should really be for people to answer questions rather than trying to put someone down for asking.. seems like this forum is being trolled..

 

[Kagey K]

Sorry, I didn't mean to be so mean, but without a link or some sort of proof it just seemed like baseless nonsense, and I have no patience for that. I may have overstepped my bounds.

If you are going to claim there is a google source be ready to provide it. Otherwise you may get a grade 4 Science lesson, ...! If I need a vacation over it I'm sure I'll get it. I try to be nice, but every now and then something like this comes up.