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Ohio vaping related illnesses being investigated

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Ohio Department of Health announced Tuesday that there are now ten cases of vaping related illnesses being investigated state-wide. One of those is now a confirmed case in Hamilton county. Dr. Amy Acton, the director of the Ohio Department of Health, said these cases are causing serious complications. According to Acton, the ten cases being investigated are severe pulmonary illnesses. There are 14 other reported cases that are causing other extreme symptoms as well. All of the patients are between ages 16 and 26, and of the ten, seven are male, three are female. She said some of these illnesses seem to be from the lungs almost being coated with substances from vaping, making it hard for people to breath. Dr. Acton explained how vaping excessive amounts of vitamin E acetate, which is a main component of many vaping liquids, affects the body. "It gets in the lungs and it cools and hardens , so it's like butter that hardens. So what the physicians are seeing are lungs coated with oil hardening and then on top of it all of these irritants are causing an inflammatory response and that inflammatory response is further blocking airways." The result of that then, she said, is asphyxiation; even when ventilated the patients cant get enough oxygen in the body. She also said the flavorings in e-cigs have new concerns to the body, and they've launched new initiatives to try and ask people to simply please just stop using these until we know more. They have free services at ODH to help you quit vaping.