A Texan teenager says he almost died after his lung collapsed due to excessive vaping, KTVT reports.
Although Tryston Zohfeld, 17, of Weatherford, said he was well aware of the dangers of vaping, he dismissed concerns about the initials as he thought it was something cool to do.
"As a teenager, you feel invincible," he told the channel. "You do not really think it could happen to me, even to someone you know."
Last month, however, Zohfeld reportedly began experiencing chest pains.
"I woke up at 6:30, vomiting everywhere," he recalls. "I could feel my heart pounding, you know, going 100 miles to the hour, I was doing those half-breaths, I really could not breathe deeply, even with the inhaler."
On July 26, Zohfeld was admitted to a hospital where his condition quickly deteriorated.
"They made X-rays on Sunday morning and the sky was completely covered with lungs," said Zohfeld's father, Matt, in a separate interview with KXAS. "And they had increased his oxygen rate up to 100, which is as high as possible.And unless they intubated, they had the highest type of ventilator that was. they could use and he was still not getting enough oxygen. "
Two days after admission, Tryston was placed under a ventilator after his lung collapsed. The doctors examined the teenager looking for all possible viruses and infections before determining that Tryston's vaping paraphernalia, taken away by his cousin to the hospital, could have the effect. Having made him sick.
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Pediatric pulmonologist Karen Schultze, who treats Tryston, told KXAS that her lungs were so badly damaged that they formed scar tissue.
Since then, Tryston, who lost 30 pounds during his treatment, promised never to take an electronic cigarette again.
"We do not know the long-term effects," he said. "We only know the short-term effects, and if the short-term effects are so bad, what good could it be?"
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that they would examine 94 cases of pulmonary diseases related to vapor inhalation in 14 states. The news comes just days after the collapse of a teenager's lungs from Florida after smoking Juul pods.
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