With all due respect, since nicotine e-liquid has no oil in it, where is the oil coming from that is in his lungs? Seems to me that it is far more likely that he was vaping something other than nicotine e-liquid that has been found to be mixed with oil.
PG and VG are oils in a sense. I have noticed at high wattage when vaping sometimes it's a very wet vape, with the PG / VG basically passing through the coils when you drag hard. This can certainly reach your lungs. In this article, it doesn't mention what was smoked in specific but since it's in PA where THC products are illegal and he was vaping for 2 years consistently it might have been nicotine based. Not only that, it shows the same symtoms I had and I did not use THC.
Your lungs were coated with something resembling bacon grease, as that teen's doctor said? That's not what I recall.
UPDATE: If you read the reference, which links to a FB post from his mother, they mention in the comments he was using "he was using the NJoy vapes that he purchased in local convenience stores."
I don't necessarily mean oil as traditional oil, but it could certain reach the lungs and harden. There are also many flavoring materials that could turn into oil-like substances in the lungs.
If you used an oil-based flavoring, yes. However, they are clearly marked these days, which ones are appropriate for use in vaping (those that contain NO oil) and which ones are only for baking, etc.
That not the point, he had the SAME EXACT thing happen to him that happened to me, and I don't use THC at all... The point is somehow the lungs are being constained. It might not be an oil in the way you would typically define one, but rather an oil like substance. When I did my CT scans, they found hard nodules throughout my lungs which they were nearly sure were cancer. I had to get biopsies done to test what they are, and they were not cancer instead buildups from vaping. There are a lot of different scans coming in unique to a lot of vaping situations with THC and without THC, but it's certainly causing some sort of buildup in the lungs and they are not sure why.
Read the reference, That case was NOT THC related and I doubt hes lying to anyone in the ICU lol... He's basically nearly DEAD and hes not even a kid... I should also mention they are sure this is related to vaping, THC or not and there are hundreds of cases showing up with people who have vaped for several years, so even if it's against what you like it's clearly an issue worth discussing.
The biopies would have told you WHAT substance the "buildups" were. What were they?
"This is what vaping looks like when your otherwise healthy 19 year old"
Then he has vaped an oil contaminated eliquid
They can't always tell you what the substance is especially with the lesser invasive Bronchoscopy and in this case it was tested to see if it was a cancerous nodule and it was not. The testing stopped at "Are you going to need to start cancer treatments or not"... and me and my family were scared I had cancer at 28 years old. (I have a wife and 5-year-old) Is there another testing they could have done to figure out what it is and do more invasive biopsies, prob but not that I was willing to do or that my insurance would likely cover. (It was a$15,000 procedure) If it turned out to be cancer, then I would have likely had more intrusive testing done but in this case, it was a relief.
If they biopsied it, they would be able to tell you what the substance was. Did they tell you it was oil build-up?
I was told it was not cancerous, but that's a pretty broad statement to make unless you're a medical professional. A biopsy is an inspection of the CELLS, im not sure how you assume that means they can identify any substance in existence because in my case they were not able to identify what it was without additional testing even then which might not identify what it is, which I did not consent to as coughing up blood for a week and fevers from the biopsy were enough for me and I was relieved to not have CANCER lol. There were talks of a more intrusive biopsy, but I was told that this should eventually repair itself or the lung would just grow around it.
I did not know this, I know one of the mothers milk or unicorn milk flavors also had some bad stuff they got called on, was this the same chemical? Also, that was me! I was active in Nicoticket.
