Man Who Was Given ‘1% Chance Of Survival’ After Years Of Vaping Issues Chilling Warning To Others

By maks in Health and Fitness On 19th May 2024
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At 22 years old, Jackson Allard from North Dakota faced a grim prognosis with only a one percent chance of survival after his vaping habit led to severe health issues.

Miraculously, his life was saved by a double lung transplant.

Jackson was initially hospitalized last October due to stomach pain, but the doctors had a tough time figuring out what was wrong.

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Eventually, they concluded that he was suffering from Influenza 4 and double pneumonia.

Early this year, he underwent a double lung transplant at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.

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Doctors believe his eight-year vaping addiction was the main factor in the rapid and severe decline of his health.

The transplant was just the beginning of another difficult chapter for Jackson.

He spent the first three months of the year battling for his life in the hospital, fully intubated and on life support.

There was even a moment when his heart stopped.

Before undergoing the procedure, Jackson expressed his fears to his family, saying: "I am scared, I don’t want to be alone."

Jackson also spoke about how he got into vaping at a very young age. 

"When I first started vaping, I was probably 14. I was pretty much non-stop doing it. I told my friend who smokes weed, I was like, 'Be careful with that'."

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Doreen Hurlburt, Jackson’s grandmother, conveyed a grave message about his condition. 

"At one point a doctor said he had a one percent chance of living and we said, ‘He’s fighting, he’s fought for how many weeks we’re going to give him a chance to fight, we’re not going to stop any procedures or anything’."

She continued, sharing a stark comparison made by doctors: "Multiple doctors said, 'If you smoke cigarettes for 50 years, we'll see you with lung cancer, and if you vape for five years, we'll see you with permanent lung damage'."

Dr. Stephanie Hanson at Stanford highlighted the unknowns of vaping. 

"Vaping or e-cigarette use is relatively new, so we don’t necessarily know a lot of the long-term effects of vaping and that’s honestly one of the scariest things about it."

A study conducted by the University of Texas, which examined health data from over 40,000 individuals across all age groups over five years, shed more light on the dangers of vaping.

At the start of the 2022 analysis, none of the study participants had asthma.

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By the end of the study, researchers found that roughly ten out of every 1,000 adults had developed this common respiratory condition due to vaping.

Moreover, the study indicated that individuals who had used e-cigarettes within the 30 days leading up to the study's end faced a significant risk.

They were 252 percent more likely to develop asthma before reaching 27 years old, compared to those who did not use e-cigarettes.