Scientists discovered another danger of using electronic cigarettes. It turned out that they impede the healing of wounds.
A new study found that e-cigarettes prevent the wounds to normally heal. Today patients have long been advised to refuse from regular cigarettes at least a month before such procedures as plastic surgery. The fact is that the active ingredient in tobacco products nicotine reduces blood flow throughout the body and thereby increases the risk of complications in surgical operations. While e-cigarettes do not contain the mass of tar and harmful substances present in normal tobacco, a new study has shown that these devices produce almost the same effect. This means that electronic cigarettes need to give at least one to two months before surgeryto avoid complications.
At least that’s the advice surgeons should give their patients who are preparing for certain procedures. One of the authors of the study, the running head of the Department of facial plastic surgery at Boston medical center, Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel said that based on the findings, electronic cigarettes are not a safe alternative to traditional cigarettes in terms of time healing wounds.
Their findings, Dr. Spiegel and his colleagues have done on the basis of experiments with laboratory rats that have passed through the healing of skin injuries, such as those which occur in surgical patients. Animals were exposed to vapor from electronic cigarettes. Previously, other us experts said that the nicotine contained in electronic cigarettes, increases the risk associated with blood flow complications, just as do regular cigarettes. (READ MORE)