While vapes are illegal to sell to youngsters an increasing number of children and teens are landing in hospital due to vaping-related complications.
READ MORE: How disposable vapes can WRECK your health as UK announcedDoctors have warned that vapes could cause deadly allergic reactions in children — adding to the long list of health harms associated with the devices.
Experts warn the risk of an allergic reaction from vapes is particularly high in flavours designed to mimic certain food or sweet treats, which are known to be popular among children. Some allergic reactions to vapes also occur without a known food trigger, but instead are sparked by a substance called propylene glycol, a colourless liquid used to sweeten the vapour in many e-cigarettes.Sufferers experience wheezing, asthma attacks and hives when they ingest the liquid or inhale it from vapour exhaled by another user.The then 16-year-old almost died in 2017 from a vaping reaction which left him vomiting a neon green liquid and gasping for breath as his organs failed.
One famous example of a vaping allergy is that of Ewan Fisher who at 16 almost died from a extreme reaction where the air sacs and airways in the lungs become severely inflamed Becky Gittins, the Labour MP for Clwyd East, and a parliamentary ambassador for the foundation, said that flavoured vapes should have allergy information displayed clearly on their labels.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting warned at the time that the number of children vaping is 'growing at an alarming rate'.
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