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Several species of fungi – some of which associated with pulmonary complications – were found in electronic cigarette mouths used by daily smokers.
Or use of Electronic Cigarettes It is usually recommended as a transition form to stop smoking. However, this may be a mistake, since your impacts on long -term health are little understood.
A study last week in BIORHIVIVE tried to realize that microorganisms can pass from devices to the respiratory tracts of the smokers.
The researchers cultivated the microorganisms they found in the sample electronic cigarette mouths (25 people).
According to investigators, more than half of the devices were “Abundantly colonized” by fungal species and 80% of these are capable of causing health problems in people.
The most common of these species was Cystobasidium minutewhich has been associated with blood infections among people with the compromised immune system.
To understand how it could affect the lungs, the team caused rats to inalize C. Minuteimitating the entry method of the vaping.
It was found that the most prevalent fungus in the samples of electronic cigarettes caused characteristics of chronic bronchitis we times.
“Waste left inside the device can provide a food source for the mold”He told New Scientist, Jason Smith, who was one of the study’s authors.
Team member Katy Deitz says she was not surprised by the discoveries, as the Most participants did not clean the devices.
To the same magazine, Ian Musgrave, from the University of Adelaide, Australia, warned that there is evidence that this smoking method contributed to microorganism -induced lung diseases: “What is interesting is that the microbiota found in this study was dominated by potentially pathogenic fungiwhich are rare in the mouth microbiome. ”
