A 22-year-old vaping addict who ended up needing a double lung transplant has issued a chilling warning.
Last October, Jackson Allard developed parainfluenza as a result of his vaping habit, which caused pneumonia and eventually acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Allard, from North Dakota, He was hospitalized and placed on life support for 70 days.
Now recovering from a double lung transplant, he has issued a warning to others as sales of vaporizers continue to rise.
“I was very sick, I could barely sleep and I was constantly vomiting,” Allard He told Fox News about his terrible experience..
Jackson Allard developed parainfluenza as a result of his vaping habit, which caused pneumonia and eventually acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Allard, of North Dakota, was hospitalized and placed on life support for 70 days.
“I had a 1 percent chance of living,” he explained.
“When I started vaping, I was probably 14. I was doing it pretty much non-stop,” adding that he also started vaping marijuana.
“I told my friend who smokes marijuana and I said, ‘Be careful with that,'” Allard said, cautioning that people would be better off opting for different products, such as marijuana gummies instead of vaporizers.
Allard’s grandmother, Doreen Hurlburt, told the publication that doctors were clear about the implications of using vaporizers.
“Several doctors said, ‘If you smoke cigarettes for 50 years, we’ll see you with lung cancer, and if you vape for five years, we’ll see you with permanent lung damage,'” he said.
Sales of vaporizers and e-cigarettes have continued to increase, according to the Federal Trade Commission. report released earlier this week.
Additionally, nine percent of children ages 11 to 15 admit they are regular vapers, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“We’ve seen kids who have been vaping for short periods of time, and not necessarily heavy use, come in with pretty significant lung injuries from that,” pediatric pulmonologist Dr. Brooke Moore told Fox News.
Allard’s grandmother, Doreen Hurlburt, said doctors were clear about the implications of vaping.
Now recovering from a double lung transplant, Allard has issued a warning to others
Jackson Allard, 22, suffered from Influenza 4 and double pneumonia due to vaping. He had to undergo a double lung transplant to survive.
Sales of vaporizers and e-cigarettes have continued to rise, according to a Federal Trade Commission report
“With vaping products, we don’t have as much long-term data, but in the short term, the risk appears to be as high as cigarettes, and I would say in some cases it’s worse,” he added.
A recent study found that vaping increases the risk of developing asthma by more than 200 percent.
Researchers at the University of Texas analyzed the health data of more than 40,000 people of all ages over five years.
At the start of the 2022 analysis, none of the participants had asthma.
At the end of the study, they found that about ten in every 1,000 adults had developed the common respiratory condition.
However, those who had used e-cigarettes in the 30 days before the final analysis had a 252 percent higher risk of developing asthma early in life, before age 27, compared to those who did not use e-cigarettes. .
