This transcript has been edited for clarity.
Hi, everyone. My name is Dr Chandrasekaran. I’m here today to talk to you about vaping.
Vaping has become a global health epidemic affecting everyone from high schoolers all the way to adults. This has gained popularity in recent years, butwhat people don’t know is that vaping has now been shown to be linked to irreversible lung damage.
It has been linked to conditions such as bronchiolitis obliterans, which is narrowing and scarring of the small airways due to diacetyl, which is found in nicotine liquid in vapes. Also, vaping has been linked to lung collapse,which can then cause hospitalizations and require patients to have chest tubes, or EVALI, which is a significant, life-threatening disease that can leave patients on a ventilator.
It’s important for us to counsel our patients and to advise our patients that these risk factors do exist when using their vapes every day or even socially on occasion.It only takes one time to try it to end up with any of these irreversible lung conditions.
