to vaping. the new details from the cdc that show new york state health officials are zeroing in on a chemical that could be making those who vape sick. cnn s dr. sanjay gupta has more. these numbers are hard to believe. they keep going up. the number of people hospitalized in a number of states. it s interesting, when you talk about the typical patient. oftentimes, they are young, they are healthy and then they are suddenly sick. take a look at the symptoms that they develop. respiratory symptoms, g.i. symptoms, fever, headaches, weight loss, so many people getting sick, so many getting hospitalized as a result of this. it s an ongoing investigation. at first you have people getting ill. what do they have in common? they all seem to have vaped? what is it about the vaping in particular that could be using the problem.
started to put and two together and said we re kind of right in the middle of this outbreak of cases and this sounds like what i m hearing coming out of the midwest, and it just she just declined. she went up to 35 liters of oxygen. her cat scans showed she had a disfuse did they say what caused it? we ve been reading reports about some vitamin e oil that s in some of the some of the vapes that have thc in them snnchts they asked her and she was very honest. she said she had vaped both v k nicotine and thc. then they said, this is what we re seeing, this is consistent, our doctor did a lot of research, reached out to other hospitals and doctors and put two and two together. i really think that when he did that and they started a steroid,
this and found that 89% of the people who got sick were using illegal marijuana laden products. in new york they re studying that and found it is laced with vitamin e in the marijuana products. vitamin e, though it is good for the lungs is toxic to the lungs if you inhale it. thc or marijuana laden products being vaped, home brews or illegally is part of the problem. julie: why the additive of the vitamin e? what s the purpose? the answer is in order to get this stuff so that you can vape it, and again i m not yet letting the legal ones off the hook, either. in order to get something to be aerosol you add additives. the chemicals are the problem. it is not clear it s only thc products. my son was saying when you vape. he doesn t do it but he is an
vaping. at new york s university of rochester, this doctor has seen cannabis patients with a unique form of pneumonia called lipoid pneumonia. when the oil is heated, it forms an aerosol able to travel into the lung. from that very hot initial temperature as it cools, it can condense into the larger droplets and then stick to the walls and then coat the walls. so, the lining of your lung could be coated with fat because you vaped? it could be. that s the concern. and so basically it s rendered your lungs useless. your lungs fail. reporter: croft is part of a team here trying to unravel the mystery of what s making hundreds of otherwise healthy young people so sick. they are using this vaping machine to figure out just what the oil in cannabis products for ecigarettes does
instagram commercials teaching a magic trick turning vapes into cigarettes. it s not magic, it s statistics . reporter: the fda rolling out the new psas this month getting kids to think twice before trying e-cigarettes. i didn t think i was going to get addicted when i first started and i honestly didn t know i was addicted until i would say a few months in the 9th grade. reporter: caleb was one of 3.6 million teens and preteens estimated to have vaped last year now trying to encourage others to stop in high schools where one in five students is currently addicted. no child should have to deal with the nicotine addiction. reporter: tomorrow caleb s mom is set to testify in front of congress over the role juul, the popular e-cigarettes brand has played in getting kids addicted to nicotine. on cnbc the c.e.o. apologizing. the product is not intended for them. reporter: the company removing flavors criticized for targeting teens and shutdown the instagram accounts. now ads