Category: vitamin e acetate

CDC: Vitamin E acetate is ‘closely associated’ with vaping lung injuries

Post author By Randall
Post date December 20, 2019
Categories In cases, cdc, e-cigarette, e-cigs, evali, gear, lung, lung injury, medicine, study, Tech, vaping, vitamin e acetate

[ad_1] A new clinical study analyzed samples from 51 EVALI patients and a comparison group of 99 healthy individuals. The study identified vitamin E acetate in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from 48 of the 51 EVALI patients. It did not detect the chemical in BAL fluid from healthy individuals. This isn’t entirely surprising. Last month, […]

CDC says a toxic compound may be responsible for vaping illnesses

Post author By Randall
Post date November 9, 2019
Categories In cdc, e-cigarette, evali, gear, health, medicine, Science, Tech, toxin, toxins, vape, vaping, vitamin e acetate

[ad_1] There were other ingredients in the samples, although they didn’t appear as consistently. THC surfaced in 23 out of the samples, while nicotine appeared in 16. The CDC was quick to warn that vitamin E acetate wasn’t confirmed as the cause, and that there may be multiple factors involved in the occasionally deadly illnesses. […]