On December 4, 2019, cases of hard-metal pneumoconiosis cases were reported. Which is a lung disease caused by the accumulation of heavy metal dust and has a connection with E-cigarette.
This information is from the European Respiratory Journal. The lung disease was diagnosed from a lung biopsy of the patient. Who came to see a doctor with difficulty in breathing And with obvious tiredness The results show that in the lungs, there is a lot of heavy metal dust. Especially cobalt, and also fascia from the inflammatory process.
I’ll tell you a bit about Hard-metal pneumoconiosis. Lung disease is caused by inhaling heavy metal dust continuously until accumulation in the lungs. Heavy metal dust that often causes diseases such as cobalt, nickel, Lead, etc. The person at risk of this disease is someone who works on the tool grinding or makes implants. While they work there will be a lot of dust and spread all over and they inhaled it every day. Characteristics of pulmonary fibrosis in patients with Hard-metal pneumoconiosis Now, once we have received heavy metal dust The white blood cells in the lungs will eat them. And stimulate various inflammatory processes to destroy these dust But it appeared that it was indestructible The inflammatory process then causes a penalty instead. Because it pushed to destroy the surrounding lung tissue causing scarring and fascia The lung cells and air sacs containing heavy metals are not working well. Finally, the patient will experience difficulty breathing like this patient.
But accidentally that the patients from that report Never working or being in a dusty situation on a regular basis. Therefore it is unlikely that he will have heavy metal dust in the lungs Unless he gets these substances from what they use every day, that is E-Cigarette.
So The researchers then requested the patient’s electric cigarette for testing. The results show that there is a mixture of marijuana. And the smoke that comes out there is many kinds of heavy metal dust, such as cobalt, aluminum, manganese, nickel, and lead, because the culprit cannot be found elsewhere. Therefore, electric cigarettes become accused of causing the disease.
Conclusion- That unlucky man would have to do a long-term treatment. And does not guarantee whether the lungs will return to normal use or not, but Dr. Kirk Jones, who worked on this research Warned that Although electronic cigarettes may be an alternative way to quit smoking. However, he wants people to be aware of the toxic substances inside and recent studies have found that e-cigarettes cause a variety of lung diseases. Therefore want to be careful when using it
In my opinion smoking in general can not be healthy and this article shows us that. But on the other hand e-cigarets are very helpful when quitting smoking I can tell from my experience.
I agree with this.
First of all we have to be carefull when buy something – liquids, e-cigarettes, etc. and especially when we consume it. Neither does cigarettes are healthy nor e-cigarettes, but I were smoking I would choose the “smaller evil” as cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States and only few die from the “E version”. Good blog!