Widespread vaping has only been around for only about a decade, so there’s much less research on how well vapers get through flu season. But recent mouse and other studies suggest that e-cigarette vapor can impair the lungs’ natural ability to fight viral infections like the flu. This may worsen symptoms and increase the risk of complications.
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Can vaping give you flu-like symptoms?
HeadachesVaping constantly can induce flu-symptoms. Especially if you sit by your computer all day and find yourself in the habit of constantly vaping without thinking about it.
Can e-cigarettes make flu worse?
But recent mouse and other studies suggest that e-cigarette vapor can impair the lungs’ natural ability to fight viral infections like the flu. This may worsen symptoms and increase the risk of complications.
What happens when you vape too much?
HeadachesVaping constantly can induce flu-symptoms. Especially if you sit by your computer all day and find yourself in the habit of constantly vaping without thinking about it. A too high percentage of nicotine intake. Too much nicotine in your system can make you feel sick.
Does e-cigarette vapor harm your lungs?
But recent mouse and other studies suggest that e-cigarette vapor can impair the lungs’ natural ability to fight viral infections like the flu. This may worsen symptoms and increase the risk of complications .
What are the symptoms of vaping?
The Symptoms: Muscle or body aches. Fatigue (tiredness) Sleepiness or Dizziness. Sore throat. Feeling feverish or have chills (shaking) Cough. Sore or stiff neck. Runny or stuffy nose.
What happens if your atomizer burns out?
In this case, stop vaping and replace your e-cig with a new atomizer. Burnt atomizers/wicks can produce chemicals that can make you feel sick.
Is it hard to quit smoking?
Quitting smoking/cigarettes is hard enough. Especially when you’ve been addicted nicotine for many years. Electronic cigs have been the bridge for many ex-smokers to a cigarette-free life.
Can vaping make you sick?
Especially if you sit by your computer all day and find yourself in the habit of constantly vaping without thinking about it. A too high percentage of nicotine intake. Too much nicotine in your system can make you feel sick.
Does vaping affect the immune system?
Though research is still needed to understand the long term effects of vaping, which is linked to more than a dozen fatalities across the country, one 2018 study found the vapor from e-cigarettes impairs key immune cells in the lungs. The same study also found the vapor also increased the production of inflammatory chemicals.
Is the flu a serious illness?
"The flu is a very serious thing, bottom line," he added. "I think we underestimate the flu a lot , but if your immune system is down, this could increase your chances of the flu turning into pneumonia."
What are the symptoms of vaping-related illnesses?
The initial symptoms of vaping-related illness are a combination of breathing symptoms and stomach issues. Of the 53 patients analyzed in a report published September 6 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the most common respiratory symptoms were shortness of breath, cough, and chest pain. The stomach issues included nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. Generally, the patients had these symptoms for six days before they went to the hospital.
Can vape cartridges cause inflammation?
One idea is that some components within vape cartridges are causing widespread inflammation of the lungs that could, in severe cases, lead to this syndrome. That point was recently raised in an analysis co-authored Brandon Larson, Ph.D., a pathologist at the Mayo Clinic who suggested that “one or more toxic substance” lurking in certain vape cartridges could be to blame for that inflammation.
Is vaping a risky disease?
While early symptoms are similar, the outcomes for both illnesses are different in the long run. The flu can be deadly in some cases, but it’s usually not as risky for young and healthy people. Illness linked to vaping, on the other hand, is primarily found among young adults, and the most severe cases progress to a condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). That’s when it becomes life-threatening.
Is vaping harmful to your lungs?
Patients who end up with the severest cases have shown damage in the lungs equivalent to the damage seen after industrial accidents, according to a recent analysis by the Mayo Clinic.
Can you diagnose vaping?
Essentially, there’s not a foolproof way to diagnose the vaping-related illness at the moment, so there is a chance that it may be misdiagnosed as flu this winter. However, on Friday the CDC released guidelines describing of how to diagnose the illness. Hopefully that can help them tease the two illnesses apart, but the guidelines also say that vaping related illness is a “diagnosis of exclusion.” That means that the only way to tell someone has it, is to confirm that they don’t have something else.
kdwycha Senior Member ECF Veteran
Anyone think this is a bad idea? I have felt like total crap with body aches, headache, cough stuffy nose. The usual flu related symptoms.
NICnurse Super Member Verified Member ECF Veteran
Haven't had the flu per se since vaping, but I have been sick a few times and vaped as I needed to. I don't vape much and didn't smoke much when I am sick. Just doesn't taste good to me. Vaping won't cause the flu to be any worse if that is what you are worried about.
kdwycha Senior Member ECF Veteran
Haven't had the flu per se since vaping, but I have been sick a few times and vaped as I needed to. I don't vape much and didn't smoke much when I am sick. Just doesn't taste good to me. Vaping won't cause the flu to be any worse if that is what you are worried about.
Felonyruckus Full Member Verified Member
The flu sucks but, this is a legit question. I don't think it would stop me from vaping though
NICnurse Super Member Verified Member ECF Veteran
Figure it has to be better then smoking cigs anyway. As for the tamiflu side effects like uncontrollable ........ and vomiting and heart attacks which I seen on the commercial seem to outweigh feeling better a day earlier lol.
exodus454 Super Member Verified Member ECF Veteran
I haven't had the flu yet, but every time I'm sick I'll always vape in some capacity. I've actually had a respiratory infection or something for the past week or so and still vape like normal. Other times I've had symptoms that make it less enjoyable or taste like crap so I'll cut back, but I'll never go a day without it.
Dreddsparc Full Member
One thing that comes to mind. With smoking analogs while sick, you are disposing of the 'contaminated' butts when finished. Not so with your vaping equipment! You may want to be carefull and clean all your gear after use, especially if you happen to share it with anyone, to at least control the spread of whatever bug you have.
Can vaping cause shortness of breath?
The issue, experts say, is that flu and other respiratory viruses can, in many ways, look strikingly similar to a case of vaping- related illness: Symptoms include shortness of breath, night sweats, low oxygen levels, and hazy spots on a lung X-ray.
Can a positive vaping test be missed?
And what happens if a positive test for a virus means a missed diagnosis of vaping-related illness? “ [Vaping-related illness] can be missed if the physician is not looking for it, absolutely.
Is Pirzada a vaping case?
Pirzada is convinced it is a case of vaping-related illness, complicated and concealed by an infection. “We see tons of patients with Mycoplasma infection, and this is not the norm for that,” she said. A CDC spokesperson told STAT that during flu season, the agency recommends considering both respiratory infections and vaping-related illness in ...
Did Pirzada vape THC?
Last week, the patient was admitted to the hospital. Pirzada discovered that he had vaped THC daily for more than a year.
Is it harder to track vaping?
But it will make it harder to accurately track cases of vaping-related illness, a critical step in the effort to get the outbreak under control. Duchin said the vaping-related illnesses are another reason to get a flu shot this season, noting that flu shots could be part of the public health messaging around vaping risks.
