How dangerous are electronic cigarettes?

How dangerous are electronic cigarettes? Those who use them are predisposed to a very serious illness

• A recent study shows that vapors in electronic cigarettes are very dangerous to health.
  People using electronic cigarettes, commonly called 'vaperi', may be more vulnerable to pneumonia, according to a recent study.

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The research, published in the European Respiratory Journal, found that electronic cigarette vapors could favor the adhesion of bacteria responsible for pneumonia to cells in the membrane that lining the airway.

The study comes shortly after officials from the Department of Public Health in England (PHE) have urged smokers to replace regular and electronic cigarettes to make it easier to quit smoking-based products.

Earlier this week, PHE argued that UK hospitals should sell such devices and hoped that they could soon be bought on the basis of a prescription redeemed by the UK Public Health System (NHS) .

The study, based on experiments on cells, mice and human subjects, concluded that vapors resulting from the use of electronic cigarettes increase the susceptibility of pneumococcal infections.

'' Pneumococcus is a bacterium that can be found in our respiratory tract without producing a disease. but in some cases it can invade cells that lick (airways) causing pneumonia or septicemia, "explained Jonathan Grigg, a professor of medicine at Queen Mary University in London, one of the lead authors of the study.

In the initial experiments, the scientists analyzed the effect of electronic cigarette vapor on the molecule produced by the membranes that plague the platelet receptor activator (PAFR) airway membranes.

• Cells exposed to either nicotine-containing vapors or nicotine-free vapors produced three times higher PAFR levels. Then, after associating the pneumococcus with these cells, it was found that exposure doubled the amount of bacteria that adhered to the airway.

In the case of experiments carried out on mice, there was an increase in the number of pneumococcal bacteria present in the respiratory tract following exposure.

Also, specialists analyzed this effect on a number of 17 human subjects. among vampires, PAFR levels in the airway tripled within one hour of exposure.

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"These corroborated results suggest that" vapate "causes airway vulnerability to bacteria that adhere to cells in the airway lining. If a vampire is exposed to pneumococcus, this may increase the risk of infection, "Grigg added.