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A North Dakota man was admitted to the hospital in need of a double lung transplant and given a 1% chance of survival after being placed on life support after years of vaping led to low oxygen levels. It was declared.
Jackson Allard, 22, visited a clinic complaining of abdominal pain in October and was admitted to the hospital due to low oxygen levels, where he was diagnosed with influenza type 4 and double pneumonia, and his symptoms worsened, and he was subsequently admitted to the University of Minnesota. I transferred schools. , According to the GoFundMe page.
“The doctors said he had a 1% chance of survival, and we said, ‘He’s fighting,'” said Allard’s grandmother, Doreen Hurlbert. Valley News Live.
After being admitted to the hospital, Allard’s condition deteriorated rapidly, and doctors decided to put the Fargo native on life support to allow him to rest. Wahpeton Daily News.
Hurlburt said her grandson developed symptoms from his horrendous vaping habit, and his symptoms worsened to the point where his heart stopped beating at one point during his three months in the hospital, leading doctors to give him a poor prognosis. That’s what it means.
“He’s been fighting for weeks and we’re going to give him a fighting chance, but we’re not going to stop any proceedings or anything.”
Hurlbert said she told Allard to stop vaping because experts had long believed that e-cigarettes were worse than traditional smoking methods.
“He should stop vaping, and we kept telling him that over and over again, but he was a heavy vaper. He was always vaping,” Hurlburt said. he said.
Described as “friendly, sociable, energetic and fun,” Allard responded to his family’s criticism by saying, “It’s better than smoking.”
His grandmother countered his argument, saying, “They told me that if you smoke, you’ll get lung cancer in 50 years, and if you smoke e-cigarettes, you’ll have permanent damage to your lungs in five years.” he argued.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other health experts agree that e-cigarettes are far less dangerous than traditional ones, but there are concerns that they could help wipe out the health risks posed by modern smoking trends. Some have asked for a report from a certain Surgeon General.
“There are so many confusing messages about e-cigarettes,” Lawrence Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University, said recently. “Maybe the Surgeon General’s report will clarify everything.”
Sitting next to her hospital bed, Hurlbert feared she would lose her grandson.
“We were sure we were going to lose him. We were sure he wouldn’t survive this, but in our minds we kept imagining him coming home.” she said. told KVLY-TV.
A double lung transplant saved Allard’s life on January 1, but his life will be forever changed in both the short and long term.
The former vaper and his mother must stay in Minnesota for the next six months for routine tests.
Allard will never be able to smoke or drink again and will eventually need another transplant later in life.
In a similarly heartbreaking scenario, doctors used breast implants to save a Missouri man whose organs began to shut down after 10 years of vaping so much that he needed a double lung transplant. .
Davey Bauer was rescued after going into cardiac arrest last May, but doctors’ only option was to remove his damaged lungs and implant a breast implant in his chest cavity to keep his heart in place. It was to embed.
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