Hospitals raise alarm against e-cigarettes following synthetic drug poisoning

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A sample of e-cigarette laced with drugs is tested at Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Le Huyen

 

A Hanoi hospital has received at least two cases of boys being poisoned after mistakenly drinking the substance containing synthetic drugs in e-cigarettes.

 

Vietnam National Children's Hospital has recently saved a boy who was hospitalized after he mistakenly drank the yellow substance of an e-cigarette.

 

Doctors initially assumed he had been poisoned by nicotine, the main element in e-cigarettes. However, they later discovered that the boy's symptoms of seizure, dilated pupils, and slow pulse were different from what one normally suffers from nicotine poisoning.

 

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