Mother Warns About Vaping After Stepson Dies at 15

my heart right now is in 10 000 pieces [Music] no child is going to suffer the way my child suffered nobody else could go through what I'm experiencing right now Charlene Zorn from Wilmington North Carolina is warning others about vaping after her stepson Solomon Nguyen died in June of this year he was healthy and four months ago got a cough we thought it was bronchitis it didn't clear up we back to the family doctor didn't clear up they tried different antibiotics they ran blood tests they ran x-rays for pneumonia immediately looked at the x-rays and said to Solomon you've been vaping don't lie she says she had no idea the 15 year old was vaping and I had so many people say to me how does Solomon get it how does any kid get anything a friend a sibling they stole it from a parent and we're not parents that smoke he collapsed on Friday the 16th and we had to make the choice on Saturday night to take him off the ventilator good boy get it boy before Solomon got sick she says he was an athlete he was in the weight room every morning before school up until he started getting sick and even then he still was going he was in the gym every Saturday with his daddy Charlene's goal now is to make sure others know the possible risks I reach out to me and say they will never Vape again one of my son's in front of his mother 's mother that he was vaping and I said to the mom please please schedule him a doctor's appointment and get a chest X-ray done so my son's entire football team came to his funeral in their jerseys in their jerseys I spoke to every single one of those boys I put my hand on every one of their faces and I said I cannot allow you to become Solomon if you're vaping you have to stop according to Dr Sharon panacheri vaping can be especially harmful to children but it's particularly dangerous for adolescents because their brains are still developing so when you're altering what should be the normal process by adding in these like chemicals that go from your lungs to your brains it makes for an addictive process and a harmful process at that in her opinion this is why vaping can be unhealthy there's a lot of chemicals Within These e-cigarettes that people are inhaling and a lot of chemicals that we don't know what they do when they're inhaled when you inhale it it it's kind of unknown what happens to the lungs and actually all we do know about is that it's harmful Dr panacheri warns that there are several ways for kids to hide vaping from adults kids in general are like always on their phones right and so like Instagram sales are pretty good source of where to get these things a lot of places even in person don't card and they don't require a lot of identification and there are devices that look like USBS so kids can take a few Puffs even in class and teachers wouldn't know there are even things where it's like attached to a hoodie and so it just looks like you're wearing a hoodie and then you can there's a vape pen attached to it so there's a lot of different ways to hide up if parents suspect their child is vaping she says get them checked definitely talking to a healthcare provider is a good idea in general we can scream a screen for symptoms pediatric pulmonologists we tend to do lung function testing with each visit and that can usually provide some information right off the bat and if there's something concerning on those results then we can send for Imaging as well now that Charlene has shared her story she hopes it will educate others about the potential harms of vaping somebody has to stop The Vaping industry somebody has to put an end to this and if that means I have to go out and be a dog and pony show and talk to every person every single place I could go bring it on baby you know it's either this or crawl under my blanket and not come back out so which is a healthier choice [Music] me getting under my blanket to Solomon no good we now need to teach our children what an epidemic baking is [Music] it's a World Health crisis it's just just like everything else according to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention using e-cigarettes is unsafe for kids and young adults they say quote most e-cigarettes contain nicotine and nicotine is highly addictive and can harm adolescent brain development they also learn that quote e-cigarettes can contain other harmful substances besides nicotine we reached out to Vapor technology Association for comment but did not get a reply for Inside Edition digital I'm Andreas swindle [Music]

Channel: Inside Edition

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Keywords: ie health, sports, teens, inside edition, inside_edition, ie newsdesk, vaping, teen, athlete, nicotine, epidemic, Wilmington, North Carolina, solomon wynn, e-cigarette, charlene zorn, lungs, breathing, health crisis, andrea swindall, warning

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Length: 5min 7sec (307 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 08 2023