Woman, 19, left fighting for life after vaping leaves her lungs looking like ‘shattered glass’...

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Doctors initially diagnosed her with bacterial pneumonia, after chest X-rays showed "ground glass opacities" in her lungs.

Normally lungs appear black on X-rays and CT scans, but hazy grey areas suggest that air sacks in the lungs could be filled with fluid or other substances.It was only after she shared that she'd been using her boyfriend's vapes for the last month that doctors were able to diagnose her with e-vaping–induced lung injury .

Finding that shortness of breath was becoming "distressing", she visited the emergency department for further tests. "Most patients who are hospitalised with e-cigarette or vaping-product–associated lung injury will require admission in the intensive care unit and often need mechanical ventilation.

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