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Amid nationwide concerns, health officials asking La. physicians to report vaping-related illnesses
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BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Department of Health is asking for healthcare professionals within the state to report any illnesses potentially associated with e-cigarettes.
According to a news release, the alert is in response to a growing number of severe pulmonary disease nationwide associated with using e-cigarette products.
The department is also advising physicians to ask all of their patients who report using e-cigarettes within the past 90 days about signs and symptoms of pulmonary illness.
Since the beginning of the year, 215 possible cases of severe side effects linked with e-cigarettes have been reported in 25 states and one has died. Nine of those cases have been reported in Louisiana over the past two weeks. Those affected range ages 20-33.
No vaping-related deaths have been reported in the state at this time.
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