{"id":62167,"date":"2019-09-12T02:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=62167"},"modified":"2019-09-12T02:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:56:07","slug":"17-year-old-texas-girl-life-support-family-says-illness-due-vaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=62167","title":{"rendered":"17-Year-Old Texas Girl on Life Support, Family Says Illness Due to Vaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whitney Livingston was trying to shake the unhealthy habit of smoking cigarettes, so she turned to\u00a0vaping\u00a0as a way to quit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had told me she was smoking cigarettes, and I thought it was safe to smoke something else that was more vape,\u201d her mother, Jennifer Audas told\u00a0Fox 4 News. \u201cYou think cigarettes you are going to get cancer. So this is much healthier because that\u2019s the way it\u2019s portrayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After vaping for two years, the 17 year old decided to stop when she heard stories of other teenagers across the country \u2014 including one of fellow\u00a017-year-old Texan Tryston Zohfeld\u00a0\u2014 suffering from\u00a0severe lung illnesses that doctors believe are caused by vaping.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe had decided, \u2018I can\u2019t do this anymore. I\u2019m going to put this down. I\u2019m not going to vape.\u2019 And that\u2019s the night she started running a fever,\u201d Audas recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Livingston started to suffer from symptoms that resembled a stomach virus and she developed a fever, cough and rapid breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Her condition quickly took a turn for the worse, and she was taken to Children\u2019s Medical Center Dallas where she currently remains on life support with pneumonia in both lungs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe could have almost died,\u201d Audas told Fox 4 News. \u201cAnd her oxygen had already dropped all the way. There was pneumonia in both lungs. The doctor said it looked like no pneumonia he\u2019d ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Livingston\u2019s mother said that there has been no major progress with her daughter\u2019s condition, but she is showing some improvement, although they are not sure what long-term damage she may have.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, it was\u00a0reported that a sixth person had died\u00a0in the United States from a severe lung illness related to vaping. Kansas health officials said the resident was female and over 50, and while she had other health issues, they confirmed that her death was due to vaping.\u00a0The previously confirmed deaths\u00a0occurred in Indiana, Minnesota, California, Illinois and Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the sixth deaths, the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control is investigating over 450 reported cases\u00a0of severe lung illness linked to vaping in 33 states.\u00a0\u201cWhile this investigation is ongoing, people\u00a0should consider not using e-cigarette products,\u201d says Dr. Dana Meaney-Delman, incident manager of the CDC\u2019s response to the vaping-related lung injuries. \u201cPeople who do use e-cigarette products should monitor themselves for symptoms, for example, cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea and vomiting \u2014 and promptly seek medical attention for any health concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>While health officials and doctors are still unsure about the exact chemical or substance in e-cigarettes that is causing healthy people to become ill, on Friday the CDC said that they are beginning to see trends. Most of the 450 cases involved a young individual between the ages of 18 and 25 who was initially thought to have a pneumonia-like infection that turned out to be another pulmonary illness.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC has yet to pin down the root cause because of the variety of vaping products available. Some patients used e-cigarettes with only nicotine, while others primarily used marijuana-based products.<\/p>\n<p>Still, \u201cwe are getting a clearer focus \u2026 and the investigation is narrowing,\u201d Ileana Arias, the acting deputy director for noninfectious diseases at CDC, said.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitney Livingston was trying to shake the unhealthy habit of smoking cigarettes, so she turned to\u00a0vaping\u00a0as a way to quit. \u201cShe had told me she was smoking cigarettes, and I thought it was safe to smoke something else that was more vape,\u201d her mother, Jennifer Audas told\u00a0Fox 4 News. \u201cYou think cigarettes you are going &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3932],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - 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