A WOMAN developed crusty, bleeding sores in her mouth, which were so painful she struggled to eat or drink. While doctors initially thought she might have herpes, they concluded the oozing ulcers were caused by her year-long vaping habit. The 22-year-old woman visited the Department of Oral Medicine in Bandung, Indonesia, after suffering from painful ulcers for a month.
Aside from crusts across her lips and a sore spot on the right corner of her mouth that often cracked and bled, she also had yellow-ish ulcers coating the inside of her mouth and cheeks and her tongue. "She was a healthy individual, and before this condition appeared, she had no history of taking medications," medics wrote in a paper published to the International Medical Cases Reports journal, nor did she have any drug or food allergies. Doctors couldn't find sores on other parts of the woman's body and her for the herpes virus, which came back negative.
They eventually concluded that the patient was suffering from oral erythema multiforme - a skin condition considered to be an allergic reaction to an infection or some medicines - most likely caused by vaping. "The condition appears to be related to an allergy to vaping in an active vape user, which has never been recorded, making it a rare case," the report authors said. Erythema multiforme is estimated to occur in less than 1 per cent of people aged 20–40 years, but tends to be chronic and has 37 per cent chance of reoccurring.
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